My Favourite venue “ Snitterfield reservoir”

Here is a collection of pictures from Snitterfield reservoir

 

13.5lb mirror on the candle                    The rest of the bag

A nice silver bag for John        A double figure bag of Crucian

A early spring bag

The Avon at Wasperton

  

Well the weather is still cold and the fishing is still dire, well for me anyway. Me and John had a trip to the Leamington AA  stretch of the Avon at Wasperton and settled for two swims nearest the car park. The opening bet was waggler and maggot but after 2 hours nothing was happening . John had already tried the maggot feeder but too no avail. I decided to give the mashed bread feeder a go and with a tasty looking rubbish raft to my left, i was confident. No fish on that either. After making a fool of my self and casting the feeder right over a branch as two anglers stopped to chat, i gave up.

John had moved to my left where he found some slack water and using his pole took two small fish, i decided to poach and john was a good sport and let me , i had 3 small fish in all , john five, so we did not blank and all the Pikers had no action at all. Role on the summer and here are a few pics to remind me i can catch fish

1 33lb of Bream and Crucians Snitterfield reservoir

2 36lb skimmers jubilee pool

3 14lb on the bowl in December

4  A good bag of fish from silver pool Arden fishery in winter

Stratford “ The lido “ River Avon.

Got up early for this trip and was really up for it, but even noticing the temperature on the car was –7c i was still confident.

I met John at 7.15am and decided to have a hot sandwich on the way, this turned out to be my best and only bite of the day.

We set our gear out in the bay and i noticed how clear it was and looking back this was not the right swim choices as you only have about 2.5 ft of water at 12 metres.

John was lucky to have 1 Roach after trying all sorts of methods, i had even tried the bread flake, in the hope of catching a rouge Chub, but all was in vain.

After the session, we both realised that we needed some heavier wagglers to reach the main flow of the river, but only after a angler turned up and began to catch from the off. You can still learn from your mistakes even after 30 years of fishing.

The cold and clear Avon

solid with ice

  Hi all.

john and i had a trip to Oakham this weekend , targeting the Roach on old pool .

The overnight temperature had dropped to minus 4c and it was still below freezing when we arrived at the fishery, but even i was suprised to find the old pool frozen over. We still decided to give it ago and after an hour breaking the ice with a 8 foot piece of fencing post we had cleared enough ice to fish 3 sections of pole.

Both of us had about 3feet of water , enough for the silvers to feed comfortably. John started on the punch, feeding a tosspot of crumb each put in and caught from the off, i meanwhile fed some canal black and fished the bronze maggot over the top but had no initial response. John was having a fish nearly every put in and he showed me why. He had rolled his bread and used a cloudier crumb, i changed my set up and used some of johns bread and began to have a few.

Now was the time to try something different and have a bit of fun, we both tried feeding more pinkie for john and maggot for me and began to have some better fish , then i tried a big piece of flake on a 22 hook with no chance of ever landing a rouge carp on 5 elastic with  1 inch thick ice in front. John tried white pellet on a 3 elastic. I would have loved it if he had a carp on this set up.

Anyway we had a bit of fun and considering the commotion breaking the ice plus the conditions,  we had some nice fish. I reckon john had 6.5lb of roach and myself, about 4 lb 10 oz so was pleased

Johns net                                  And me frozen