Sunday was originally planned for us to go down to another reservoir after pike, as its near the end of the cold season.
But best laid plans and all that - the weather was very warm indeed, about 16 degrees, so we stashed the pike rods at the last minute and grabbed light course gear, and headed down to our local pond for some tench and roach.
There was a couple of other people there, so we had a look round and decided to go with instinct rather than knowledge, and chose an open bank, with good margins either side of us.
A light baiting with small mixed pellet in the margins was ledgered over.
It was certainly my day today. I had a new PB roach of 1lb 12oz :-)
I had....
Roach of 1lb 2oz
PB Roach of 1lb 12oz
x2 Carp of about 8lb
x4 Tench of about 2-3 lb
Bream of 2lb
Tench of 3lb 2oz
Mike had.....
A Tench of 3lb
A Carp of about 6lb off the surface in true John Wilson style :-)
Overall a great day and a good decision to change plans at the last minute.
Fishing in tight was the key, and possible just being in the right place at the right time, but I think we are getting our small pellet mix right for Tench and Roach, especially when we use small boillies as hook baits, to keep from hooking the small nuisance fish, of which there's lots in our local puddle.
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