So for anyone who read my recap post of last year, you will know I have set myself a few goals for this year, unfortunately 2018 is not starting out well and I have done nothing but blank so far! I even managed to come dead last in the only match I have fished this year as well!
Lets start with today as it really was on another level to just a blank! I headed back to Throop this morning this time though to beat 2 a stretch I have not fished before, I started out on a nice looking swim on a corner, it had a nice reed bed with some slow moving water running by so an obvious place to make my first cast. After about 30 minutes of freezing to death with the wind in my face I decided it was time to move.
Whilst moving I bumped into a club bailiff, after showing him my membership card he helped me out with a bit of advise on a few swims. I was pointed in the direction of the swim pictured above, things started out very promising as I was putting a fresh bait on a fish rolled in almost the exact spot I was told to position the rig.
I was told that a lot of the guys use a pva bag of pellets and generally a boilie or large pellet on the hook so from that I decided to fish in almost the same way, I had decided a few days previous to test out the Pallatrax meat beast squabs I had along with the matching paste, I instead took a bait tub and began roughly cutting the squabs into small pieces for the bag and whittled one down a bit for a hook bait and wrap it up in paste. I used a 6lb hook length to a size 10 Pallatrax Gripz hook.
I wasn't waiting long at all before the first few taps on my rod tip began and only a few minutes after that I had a massive drop back, followed by a big pull round but I wasn't quick enough to react and I missed it.
Although I missed the bite I was happy with how fast it had come, so with a fresh bait and pva bag attached I made another cast and 30 minutes later I made my 2nd mistake of the trip!
I was leaning over feeding my new friend a few maggots when I nearly lost my rod, I had a seriously savage bite that took my rod off the rest and past the side of my chair (luckily) as this gave me the opportunity to grab it before it got very wet, unfortunately though the fish was not there when I lifted and wound down.
On a slightly different note though I have decided today after seeing so many different birds and ducks to try and learn a bit more about our bird life, I will be trying to take pictures of as many different ones as I can for the rest of the year now!
By now I only had about an hour left of my session before my curfew imposed by the Mrs so decided there was no point in moving swim as the next one down that was fish able was a 20 minute walk. Fresh baits on and cast back out for a 3rd time lucky kind of deal or at least I thought.... I got another bite and this time managed to not only pick up the rod in time but also had the fish on the end, until everything went solid! Turns out bad luck does come in 3's as all I managed to bank was a huge ball of weed.
At this point I decided to call it a day a go before it got any worse! I wasn't going to write anything today but decided that if in me sharing my shocking day with you makes yours in anyway better then its worth it!
I hope you enjoyed reading a fishing blog post that involved no fish..... sorry about that I will put in more effort this coming week to make sure you have some in next weeks!
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