As we hit a new low as far as the temperature is concerned, the angling continues, with a small river session to start the day, plus the dream and the driving
It was the sharpest frost of the autumn so far, with air temperature plummeting to sub-zero from just after dark the previous evening. However, I was up nice and early to go fishing. The angling show continues, regardless of the conditions.
I always keep an eye on the river levels website and so, with the River Stour looking good, that’s where I chose to fish. That’s the Worcestershire Stour, by the way, as it is known, although on this occasion I was fishing in the county of Staffordshire.
You can see the spot where I set up in the video, which ticked the box as far as location was concerned. I presented a couple of maggots over balls of brown crumb and maggots just downstream, under overhanging branches.
As stated, I was certainly confident in terms of location, but realistic when I took the conditions into account. That’s an important balance when you’re fishing, especially in the winter. You should always be expectant and positive, but also level-headed, and maintain a feet-on-the-ground attitude.
Come packing-away time, as if to enforce the point made above, after watching the rod tip for a couple of hours, it had remained completely motionless. Still, there’s always another day. There’s always tomorrow.
While fishing, I had a message from Ian Clarke, which prompted me to recall a dream that I had last night. That’s in the video, as well as a reference to a post in my guestbook regarding driving. If you’re out fishing in these conditions yourself, enjoy and I hope your line is tighter than mine was today.
The nature scene was more responsive than the piscatorial one. As I arrived there were two, possibly three, song thrushes singing in the immediate area. A goosander was on the river and a kingfisher flashed upstream. Three noisy ring-necked parakeets flew into the far bank copse.
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