Tench / Dog fish & Bass are on my mind. However this year has been blighted with a particularly cold Spring including more than it's fare share of Easterly / Northerly winds.
The beaches have been really quiet, with no reports making me want to head to the beach, so my efforts have been concentrated on Broom pits after Tench. A couple of fruitless sessions and an appetite to actually catch something led me and Henry to the small carp pit, and he managed to pull in 10 fish to 8.5lb in an evening session fishing free lined bread on the top.
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| Beautiful 8.5lb common 'off the top' |
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| small tench in the same session - 1st i've seen caught off the top |
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| nice mirror - again caught off the top on bread |
Big Cuz had also lined up a 24hr session on a Norfolk Pit, which i must admit put me a bit out of my carp fishing 'comfort zone' but I soon got the Bivvy up and the baits out and managed to spawn my personal best (by a long way) carp of 24lb. Talk about get the adrenalin rushing ! apart from that the session was quiet with just 2 more 'runs' / line bites which proved fruitless.
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24lb early season Common (Male)
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Ian did ok - he managed to pull a 'New Bird' he said it looked a bit cold and very kindly kept it warm in his bivvy over night !
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| Our little fishing home |
A couple of weeks with relatively warm weather saw me heading back to the 'Tench Pit' with Henry for an evening session, it was bites from the off but other than a perch and a skimmer nothing was getting hooked. As evening fell the fish started rolling in the shallows, so we changed where we were casting and instantly had bites, most were missed (presumed line bites) and others connected straight into the weed. But we did manage to get a couple of big 'dustbin lids' mine fought like a tench, i've never had a bream take line like that before, it was a real old scrapper. and surprised me that it only went 6.5lb on the scales, so will be checking that they are accurate.
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| Henry loves to do the cooking - bacon & Sausages |
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| This ole boy had some kind of limpets on his head! 6.5lb Bream |
Henry's was obviously a younger fish, and was just shy of the 6lb mark which is a PB for him. Not a bad session -we will be back soon.
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| Henry's bream not weighed but estimated as just shy of 6lb. caught while we were packing up on his 'last cast' |
