My first session was to be a perch session on club lake that had produced a couple of 4lbers to live baits that were been fished for zander . On arrival it was clear the connecting river had been up and flooded the lake again and my chosen swim was a little boggy .
I dont do live baiting so opted for legered prawn on a very resistance free rig fished over a mix of riddled mole hill soil , meaty groundbait and predator plus liquid with some chopped prawn added . the other rod was a float set up fish small pieces of prawn over the same bait . After 5 hours including 1 hour into dark I had a single bleep and nothing more .
3 days later and I was back at the same lake but was caught in 2 minds and in the end did neither particularly well . I opted for a different swim and fished the same prawn leger rig down the margin and a maggot heli rig at 30 yards as the lake has a healthy head of roach that have gone over 2lb to boilie fished by the carpers . It was a very cold day and again I never had a bleep or saw a fish of any description show .
I needed a change and to find some fish and this coincided with my mate Mark coming up from London for our annual roach session on the specimen lake . As usual maggot heli rigs were the order of the day and with a very strong wind putting big waves on the lake and a very strong under tow , things looked excellent . As it was a social session we opted to fish a double swim and sit nder the same shelter . The rods were set up and clipped at the usual 65 yards that took us into the deep channel where the roach patrol when its cold and theres a good tow on . We both put 6 feeders of maggots out before putting a baited hook in , mine were flavoured with the usual curry powder while Mark used some girly Southern flowery flavour . Now the thing on this lake is the fish moved constantly and you rarely catch all day so we knew we would be able to have a good catch up . About an hour into the session Mark has the first take but managed to lose it , some half hour later and my right hand rod sees the bobbin rising and falling about half inch , very usual and after a few seconds of this I decided to lift into it , fish but with the wind and tow it wasnt til it was in the margin did I realise it was one of the 1lb+ fish , on the scales and she went a lovely 1lb 3 and half ounce .
All went quiet for me but Mark was getting regular indications he managed to land 3 one of 1lb 1oz and the other 2 around 10-12oz but also lost a couple . The only action I was seeing was from this cheeky chap who kept heling himself to my maggots .
We sat and talked about why Mark was seeing the most action and reasoned it was probably due to the undertow taking most of the bait to his left hand rod which was the one getting all the action . Around 3pm and the mad frenzy we come to expect arrived . I added 4 more roach between 12oz and 1lb 2oz in the space of around 10mins while Mark had 5 more including 2 of 1lb 7oz in the space of 10mins which are his new pb .He also added what we thought must be a record roach but turned out to be a 4lb 4oz bream . The action stopped as suddenly has it had begun , we stayed an hour into dark but no more action followed .
My last 2 sessions were supposed to be roach and chub on the maggot on the Trent but on arriving for the first one I found the river up about 4 feet and a horrible grey colour .
The swim above has a lovely crease across the front which is more pronounced with extra water on , it took me 2 hours to get an indication a single tap that I left for 10 mins before reeling in with no other sign , to find both maggots looked like they had been hit with a hammer , a typical sign of roach . I shortened the hooklink and recast after 20 mins without a sign I retrieved the rig to findone maggot had been nipped on the end . I recast again and watched the tip intently , I noticed it looked to slightly tremble and decided to hit it the result was everybodies favourite fish a gudgeon .
I added 4 more gudgeon over the next 2 hours before leaving .
My last session was yesterday and I spent a good hor looking at swims on 2 stretches before ending up close to where I fished my last session , the river was up another couple of feet but the colour looked better , a very strong in your face wind ruled out fishing the same swim so I moved a few swims round the bend where I knew there was another small slack the result was another gudgeon haul this time 8 of them , I also missed so very unmissable bites which are a mystery . After going years of not seeing the once prolific Trent gudgeon it seems they are making a comeback , which is great news .
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