last trip of the season
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 3:50 pm
I decided on Dobbs weir, well the stretch just after the lock heading towatds Broxbourne because I wanted to fish the river in very pleasant surroundings .This was my first river trip since last November and would be the last this side of the close season...I had three maybe fours of fishing.Time is dead precious to me.
I was on the bank at 0745, and its was very ,very cold. But not too windy and the the colour of the water looked ok.
I prepared for this trip by having the J W avon quiver all ready to go and cracked on with that ...cage feeder, maggots/casters in the groundbait.All looked fishy....
Thirty minutes later I set up my float rod , pairing it with a treasure. My Dad has given me his D.A.M closed face reel last Autumn and I was soon trotting,even though I say my self the control was superb. Little and often in went the hemp and a pinch of maggot..
But no fish........
And very cold.
And no fish.......Now I noticed two Comrants early on but now there were three.All perched in a tree nearly opposite.
After 2.45 hours I upped sticks and moved to try the last 2 hours on the Navigation canal.Slightly less cold.Fishing waggler far bank peppering a small steady flow of maggots/hemp . over caster ...
Not a knock.
So a right Royal blank...only if Im honest I was a bit cheesed off. I have spent three years researching and exploring the Lea.I have very little fishing time and Ive had far more blanks than non blanks.
I know B.S.C had a fabulous chub and there are some big fish in there . But I think the days of a mixed bag of course fish may be gawn...straight down the throats of those huge Comrants.I think Im fishing 30 years too late . I think some serious hours would have to be put in to bag up.
But I have three kids, full time job...Im a pleasure fisherman serious amounts of time I aint got.I feel abit undecided about where what to do next...
I was on the bank at 0745, and its was very ,very cold. But not too windy and the the colour of the water looked ok.
I prepared for this trip by having the J W avon quiver all ready to go and cracked on with that ...cage feeder, maggots/casters in the groundbait.All looked fishy....
Thirty minutes later I set up my float rod , pairing it with a treasure. My Dad has given me his D.A.M closed face reel last Autumn and I was soon trotting,even though I say my self the control was superb. Little and often in went the hemp and a pinch of maggot..
But no fish........
And very cold.
And no fish.......Now I noticed two Comrants early on but now there were three.All perched in a tree nearly opposite.
After 2.45 hours I upped sticks and moved to try the last 2 hours on the Navigation canal.Slightly less cold.Fishing waggler far bank peppering a small steady flow of maggots/hemp . over caster ...
Not a knock.
So a right Royal blank...only if Im honest I was a bit cheesed off. I have spent three years researching and exploring the Lea.I have very little fishing time and Ive had far more blanks than non blanks.
I know B.S.C had a fabulous chub and there are some big fish in there . But I think the days of a mixed bag of course fish may be gawn...straight down the throats of those huge Comrants.I think Im fishing 30 years too late . I think some serious hours would have to be put in to bag up.
But I have three kids, full time job...Im a pleasure fisherman serious amounts of time I aint got.I feel abit undecided about where what to do next...