🎣 Third time lucky with bream, followed by talking angling on radio
With my weekly radio slot scheduled for mid-morning, it was always going to be a short angling session and, with heavy rain overnight, I very much had in mind the two bream that I had lost on a particular pool when it was also heavily coloured.
I was there for less than two hours and I had, what I would call, a steady trickle of small roach, which you can see of them in the video.
Then, right at the very end – in fact, it was the last cast – the float dipped and the fish raced off.
Initially, I didn’t know what it was and even pike went through my mind, thinking I had hooked a small jack.
However, after an initial burst of a few seconds, that run was halted and the fish came in very tamely indeed.
It was a bream!
After the previous lost fish, which you’ll know all about if you follow my blogs on a regular basis, I was very happy indeed to slip it into the waiting landing net.
Not that I believe in it, but it was certainly a case of, as they say, third time lucky.
I fished a couple of rod-lengths out, in six feet of water, over brown crumb and red/white maggots, with two red maggots on the hook, just off a sharp drop-off.
Tackle
Greys Prodigy TX 12’ rod. Shimano 3500M reel. Maxima Chameleon 4lb line. Drennan 1.2g float. Drennan Super Specialist size 16 hook.
Nature notes
Raven calling in flight. Two noisy ring-necked parakeets in flight.