Right so onto some fishing, this time out I was heading back to the water works at Longham, which I believe is the lower end of the Stour. As many of you know this is a little spot I really enjoy fishing as you really never know how the fishing is going to be or what is going to take your lure on any given day! This trips target though as the title suggests was the Perch, I have been seeing a whole load of reports of people having 3lb fish out quite regularly lately, of course some of these look like there was half a gallon of water in the weigh sling with them at the time of being weighed as is normally the case with some people, but some of the fish looked massive as well and as someone who personal best still sits 3oz shy of 2lb this looked like the perfect opportunity to better it! This brings me nicely onto the reason for choosing the Ned Rig, I have been watching a lot of videos and also reading a tonne of catch reports lately where big Perch have been caught using the method, this made the decision to try the rig a easy one. As I said before I was also planning on doing a youtube video which is something I have not done in a long time also so thought it would be good to do something totally new for me at the same time again. Obviously though after the days miss haps neither of these actually tool place so on to what did, once I had arrived at the venue I had a quick peak around before heading of to sign in and to my delight I was the only angler there, so once I got myself sorted and round to the river I started off on the drop shot with a small red worm imitation in a spot quite close to the first wall you come to, there is some really fast flowing water coming through there but this little section has a small branch in the water and the water behind it is pretty much slack. I have sat here on other days when I have just been for a walk and when the water is clear I have seen Perch in the spot and some big ones as well. After maybe thirty minutes of cycling through different depths and going from worms to shads and bug shaped lures nothing had worked so it was of to the next spot for me. I headed over to the area I have spoken about on this blog before, there is big outlet pipe that is constantly pumping huge quantities of water into the river, I absolutely love fishing this area as it is so full of life from millions of minnows and fry right up to Pike. I decided this time to go straight in with a shad lure a slightly larger one of around two and a half inches and a grey colouring with gold glittery flecks down the flanks, this proved to be the correct decision as with in two or three minutes I was into my first fish, it was a good starting size but not going to beat my pb so I took a few pictures and put it back without weighing it.
At this point I was excited with how the session had started as I have not had many fish from this water before and this was for me a pretty good size fish to have started on, because of the quick success I decided to stay with the same lure, I mean why wouldn't you, this though changed after another ten minutes or so with out even a knock, at this point I had wondered weather this was a lone fish and not the shoal I was looking for but at the same time o wondered if I had maybe spooked any other fish that were there? I decided this time not to move but just to change up lures, I stuck to exactly the same shape and size just went for a bright yellow and orange coloured one, this to my amazement got me a bite almost the second the weight hit the bottom, although I was happy to have gotten another bite this fish was tiny and I was over excited about the fact I may have found the lure that was going to get me the numbers I knew I was going to need to wade through to just maybe, hopefully snare the big one that I put it back with out taking a picture and got the lure straight back into the water, after maybe five minutes of working the lure back and forth around the area that was being churned up by the water from the pipe I was in to another fish, this one however go me excited as it felt a much better fish, once again though it was not the personal best I was after but I was very happy all the same.
As you can see in this picture I had a little play around with the arrangement of stuff, this is something I have started to do more often in my pictures now and I have been having a lot of fun trying to come up with new ways of showing size of fish compared to different things as well as show what gear I was using, in a way I wish I had not unhooked the fish until after the picture to show the lure I used, but at the same time I very glad I didn't because as you may be able to see here the fish jumped around a bit and wrapped itself in the line, one of the main things I'm glad about is that the fish did not come to any unnecessary harm for the sake of a photo! Fish safety is always paramount for me and I hope it is for you guys too, another thing you might be able to see in the picture is when I am lure fishing I always use a net with rubberised mesh as this reduces the chance of the hook or hooks depending on what your using being tangled and again maybe harming the fish.
Ok so back to the fishing, I gave this lure another try to no avail, once again I played about with style of lures and the depths I was working them at and again no bites, it was now also getting a bit later on in the day and I had to go get ready for my night shift so I decided to start to pack my gear up and make my way back round to sign myself out, I was walking past the spot I tried first when something in the back of my mind said to me I hadn't tried the yellow shad in the spot so maybe I should give it a go, this turned out to be a great idea as no more than a minute of working the lure by the wall next to some reeds produced a bite, this fish was not only going to be my last fish of the day but it was also the biggest of the trip to. Once again the fish was not going to be beating my pb so I grabbed a few pictures and released it before heading off to sign out and go home.
Thank you all once again for reading the blog and once again I hope you enjoyed it! I'm going to leave you with some more great news and something I have been hoping would happen for quite sometime now, I am very happy to say I am now officially a member of the Lure Nuts Family, these are a great group of guys that are all mad about lure fishing, they are very happy to help anyone with any questions and can be found on various social media sites the Twitter is @LureNuts and the Instagram is the same, don't forget to also search them on Facebook! Once again thank for reading hopefully see you next time.
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