🎣 Including today, just three angling sessions left in 2024
I do have some exciting (as far as I’m concerned anyway) fishing plans for 2025 but, before then, it’s business as usual from a personal angling perspective.
Up first thing and out on a small pool, is a familiar habit that I’ve developed of late.
However, not all habits are bad ones, and that’s certainly true in this case.
Due to the fact that I fish most days, there are lots of shorter sessions during the course of the year.
Although I love angling, I wouldn’t want to be out from first thing in the morning until last thing at night.
If anyone else does that, it’s not an issue to me, but as far as I’m concerned it would definitely be on the obsessive side of the line, as opposed to the passionate.
Back to the session this morning and it was a very quiet one indeed.
That also seems to be a familiar pattern, which if you are an angler who fishes all year round, then that one comes as no surprise anyway.
Things do tend to slow down during the winter months.
I fished about three metres from the bank, beyond the sharp drop-off, presenting two white maggots over brown crumb and red/white maggots.
I had several flickers on the float early on but, when it finally disappeared towards the end, I thought I’d finally got a fish.
I saw the small roach but it came off as I struck.
One of the maggots had masked the hook point and that was that as far as action was concerned.
Tackle
Greys Prodigy TX 12’ rod. Shimano 3500M reel. Maxima Chameleon 4lb line. Home-made 3” float. Drennan Super Specialist size 16 hook.
Nature notes
Feeding maggots to a moorhen. It’s wised-up to my appearance at the pool and comes to me when I arrive. One noisy ring-necked parakeet flew into woodland beyond the far bank.