At least I’m not a blanker and the weather forecast
🎣 After yesterday‘s disappointing session, where I lost a number of tench, I returned to the same lake, the same peg and employed the same tactics.
The only difference on this occasion was that I also took maggots with me and alternated between them and corn on the hook.
It was a good job as well, because it was extremely slow on this occasion, and I caught just the one roach and one perch.
On maggots.
Plus, a bigger roach on corn.
🪱 Tackle & bait: Fox Barbel Special 1.5 test curve rod and an Okuma Zeon reel.
6lb Maxima Chameleon, with a six-inch hook-length created by a small shot and 8mm bead.
Above that was a 1/2 ounce lead. Size 10 Drennan Super Specialist hook.
Single grain of corn/ five white maggots over brown crumb, maggots and sweetcorn, twenty metres out.
🦆 Nature notes: Grey wagtail, calling in flight.
At least seven swifts feeding very high over the lake.
House martins (c.20) just above the surface as they fed.
🌧️ While I was fishing, as you can see in the video, the rain was heavy at times.
It caught a few of the anglers out as they didn’t have umbrellas with them.
In all fairness, though, it wasn’t in the forecast for today.
It made me think how we are told in unwavering terms what the exact weather will be like in fifty years time, but they can’t even get it right on the day while it’s happening.
📹 Footage from the water’s edge.