Oakham farm

Hi All

Well this weekend me John and a friend of his , Pete, decided to have a crack at Oak hams match lake. Because it was for cast to be cold , i knew it would be hard. Anyway arrived at the lake around 7. 30am, a slight frost lay across the fields and there was a bitter chill in the air. I had a walk up to the match lake and it was like a mirror, with only a slight ripple at the far end. We got our gear out of the cars and i swear it gets heavier and heavier every trip, what do we take with us ?

We settled closest to the car park with john on the east bank , me on the north side and Pete in the deep corner. By now a stronger wind had picked up , a north easterly, not good at all.

John began to catch Roach on the maggot and Pete decided to go for the lumps with pellet.

I started cautiously feeding about 4 micro pellets and fishing bread flake over the top.

John was catching well , Carp , Roach and skimmers ( Where the silvers came from i dont know, but i never counted on them) Pete had a few Roach and the odd Carp and me a couple.

John fed some chopped worm and this killed huis swim for a while , why ,we do not know but it took a while for the Roach to return. I was now having a good run on the bread and alternating with pellet.

In the end John had about 18lb of fish with a lot of quality Roach, pete about 10lb and i around 35lb. I enjoyed it but it was freezing by the end of the session , i was looking forward to that chinese tonight.