Nature Reserve - 19th Jan 2007

[..::Pike Pirate::..]

well today i was brought down ill by a throat infection and i threw a sickie on school. i woke up at 12am, 3am, 5am and then 7am durin the night and my throat was sore, i had lost my voice by 7! So i went back to sleep until about quarter to 1 in the afternoon.
upon waking up i switched on mainstream with matt hayes and remembered we had some maggots left from the Bowesies trip! rather than let them go to waste i decided to go out to the local pond, as a throat infection doesnt affect my limbs enough to stop me fishing!
Got there at about one and the water was very mucky...again. but the wind was a lot less strong and i just had a little breeze in my own corner of the pond.



so i baited up with a few balls of groundbait and cast in a 4BB waggler, after plumbing the depth to about 5 ft, because the fish will be hard on the bottom. i had a size 14 microbarb and used small 4-6mm soft hook pellets..."loaded with B1 additive"...and red 'n' white maggots, as i had learned they were the best for this pond.

and now onto the action. after catapulting out 2-3 pouches of maggots, my swim went crazy! i had 8 bites in the space of 5 minutes, all aggressive, and i managed to land one! 1.5 pts for the northern bulls please! a beauty of a roach to break the duck!



if it had been summer, id have had about 20 of them + crucians, tench and maybe a perch, but our village pond doesnt like winter, so i called it a day after about 3 and a half hours, walking home safe in the knowledge that i had added 1.5pts to our total and more fish were just around the corner...because they are

[geffski]

well done mate! ps thos foldy chairs ar ace! light, comfortable and with a beer holder! just lobbed my old one and picked another up for a fiver!
they even got mud feet! how can you go wrong????

[gullyworm]

Well done matey,full marks for freshwater fishing this time of year

[cuckoo]

Nice one pp ,
looks a great place !!!!

lee.

[Norfolkboy]

Well done PP

[baitmaster]

nice one pp fresh air will all way do you good

tightlines
kevin

[..::Pike Pirate::..]

geff, i totally agree with u, those chairs are awesome! im battling this infection so hopefully it will go away and maybe a saltwater trip tomorro

[Greenheart]

Glad to hear that the sore throat was'nt bad enough to stop you from fishing PP, & it would have been a shame to waste that bait LOL
Small ponds can produce some great fishing & often hold the odd good speciemen or two to take you by surprise...

[Rob M]

Well done on the roach mate

Rob

[..::Pike Pirate::..]

tal;king about specimens in that pond...after years of fishing it i know there are 4-5 pretty big carp in it, biggest probably about 15-17lb, smallest about 5lb. also, theres a roach which i have caught, a right old lunker at about a pound and a half and hes so ugly i called him Gump he has no top lip, a weird pink kind of mushy eye and has a few split fins, i thought he was a chub at first!