🎣 A small pool angling session and the importance of the fish feeding schedule
As the river season is in its last few days, I went fishing on… a small pool…
Although I have been making the most of the countdown to the close season, nevertheless I’ve also been fishing other options as well.
On a session that lasted less than two hours, I lost count of the roach that I caught. I also banked a couple of perch as well.
Fishing at first-light, it was action all the way and then it went quiet.
That’s why, as anglers, we have to work around the schedule of the fish, not expect them to fit in with us, because they won’t.
It might mean, at the height of summer, setting the alarm for 3.00 a.m.
You might turn up four hours later, for example, and think you’re the early bird but in reality, you’ve missed the bulk of the feeding time.
Of course, if you’re not a morning person, there’s always the opposite end of the day.
I fished single white maggot over red and white maggots, one rod-length from the bank in six-feet of water.
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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: Song thrush singing, a second bird seen in flight. Pair of ring-necked parakeets in noisy flight. Single raven in flight. Pair of stock doves in woodland beyond the far bank.
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