A few trips out that didn’t make the blog at the right time.
26/8/15 following on from Entire Farm I headed down to Finch
Farm to try and bag a barbel (or a catfish) from the Snake Lake. Well… that
sounded good in theory but didn’t work in practice. The Snake had been
reconfigured, the barbel had gone and I was not really set up for catfish. So
after a short while and a few small skimmers I moved down to the Match Lake and
caught about 40lb of carp and small bits. Still no catfish.
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| Finch Farm: the initial swim. Carp were patrolling in the reeds to the left, but only small skimmers showed on the pole line. |
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| Finch Farm: One of the afternoon's captures. It's been a while since I caught a ghostie. |
End of September, a visit to Pondwood Farm. This was a
well-planned trip to try and bag a catfish. Two new bait alarms, a giant
landing net and various bits of unfamiliar terminal tackle and I was ready to
have a sit down session to try and succeed. I didn't. After a long
day, I had three small carp to show for my trouble (best 10lb) and no cats.
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| Just waiting for a bite |
I had fancied my chances just as the light levels were
falling as I had a large fish in the margins that kept passing, but noisy neighbours
put paid to that. Well, maybe next year.
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| Pondwood - something big kept visiting this margin. I never did get a bite though. |
Upper Colne. Tried out my new lightweight seatbox with a trip to
the weirpool to fish the pole. I caught reasonably well but didn’t have the
right gear to really nail it down for a big fish – but now I know what to do
when I go back.
Lower Colne. Fished one of the spots I was told was home to
many good chub. It wasn’t. In fact after talking to the bailiff it appears it’s
been hard going all season due to otters, with barely a decent fish being
caught. Thankfully I bagged up on some small stuff further downstream to lessen
the pain. I can see the lightweight box getting an outing down there soon.
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| This is supposed to be the best peg for chub on the river. Needless to say I didn't get a bite. |
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