🎣 A dusting of snow and the pool partly frozen but as long as your bait’s in the water…
It was not only a cold night – that resulted in the pool I fished being partly frozen – but there was also a light dusting of snow.
After scraping ice and loading the car with tackle, I made my way to the pool and cast out.
The water was about five feet deep and I presented a single grain of corn over loose sweetcorn.
From the off I caught roach, which was my target species, and considering the conditions and the venue, I was happy enough with the session.
Although it was first light, the pool began to freeze even more while I was there.
It was like watching a time-lapse video, as the ice slowly made its way across the surface of the water, except that I was in real time.
Tackle: Greys Prodigy TX 12’ rod. Shimano 3500M reel. Maxima Chameleon 4lb line. Drennan 0.6g waggler. Drennan Super Specialist size 12 hook.
Nature notes: Single vocal ring-necked parakeet in flight. Stock dove checking out a nesting site in horse chestnut tree.