Clivey Pond 27-04-06

[Greenheart]

I had intended fishing Crockerton lake to try for a Tench for the species hunt. But I heard that Clivey Pond Nr Dilton Marsh was producing a few. So as it's only one & a half minutes drive from my house (Literally... maybe less if I break the 30mph speed limit) & as i'd never fished there before I thought I would give it a go. Clivey pond is run by Chris Haines, who used to have a tackle shop in Frome. He now has a really well stocked tackle shop on the fishery site. Got to the lake at about 9.30 am (Another early start) Paid £4 for my day ticket & bought half a pint of mixed maggots & half a pint of mixed pinkies. (Keeping it simple) I also had a tin of sweetcorn Speaking to Chris, I was also pleased to learn that there were also a lot of Gudgeon in the pond & that they were usually a bloody nuisance, as I also need one of these for the species comp. Found a nice sheltered spot in a quiet corner of the pool & set up my pole.

Once again I almost had the complete fishery to myself, with just one other angler on the far side.
As I was setting up I noticed that the reeds to my left were moving as some big fish swam through them. So I plumbed the depth beside the reeds (4ft) Groundbaited with some Van Den Eynde Supercup & lowered my bait as close to the reeds as I could get.

The float sailed straight under & I was into a nice little rudd.

Next cast I had my main target species, a small tench.

A few small, roach, rudd & perch followed & then I had a pretty little Crucian.

The fish came at a steady pace for the rest of the day to maggot & sweetcorn. I ended the day with 7 species, Roach, Tench, Rudd, Crucian Carp, Silver Bream, Perch & A few common carp on sweetcorn that smashed up a couple of my pole rigs, although I did manage to land a few. These were all returned immediately as Carp are not allowed to be retained in keepnets here.

But try as I might, I could'nt manage to catch a Gudgeon.
All in all a fun day, the weather was fantastic & I ended up with a a good mixed bag.

[Rob M]

Awesome fishing there mate. I wouldn't worry too much about the gudgeon with that mixed bag, you must be well chuffed

Rob

[Norfolkboy]

Well done Ian, looks like a fun day.

But try as I might, I could'nt manage to catch a Gudgeon.

Always the way mate, if you didn't want one you would have caught 'em

[baitmaster]

well done very impressive bag that green heart

you know them little gudgeon will now run and hide from ya for the rest of the year now you have anouced you are after them .

tightlines

baitmaster

[carper-chris]

well done, great bag of fish

[pingu]

Sounds a great day there and excellant report as ever

[shrek]

superb report mate looks a fantastic day nice mixed bag ,never fished pole just bought one on ebay hope i can bag a mixed net like that would be nice exellent day ,tight lines

[fishypaul]

well done greenheart,nice report

[BaggieRich]

Well done mate, cracking report.

The gudgeon will turn up....

Rich.