Part 1 - Estate Lake
12:40pm to 2:20pm.
Water coloured.
Deadbaited for pike.
1 rod.
Blank.
Part 2 - River Blythe.
3:40pm to 5:20pm.
Fished 2 swims.
2 chub. Meatball. 3lb 3oz and 4lb 3oz.
Estate lake was more of a recce to see if there are any signs of life in winter. And there were fish topping throughout. Just no activity on my exploratory deadbait rod.
Probably a mistake as the water was heavily coloured. But I wanted to force myself to do something different. I started to nod off, so it was time to leave.
The Blythe was in good nick though, fining down from much higher levels earlier in the week.
The above gave a great scrap from a hit and hold (and hope!) swim. At one point my lead was dangling like a Christmas tree decoration from a nearside bush, while the chub had embedded itself in a snag below.
With a prod from the landing net in a chubby direction, a deft flick of the rod tip to free the lead and it was game on again. I won soon after, but the end tackle suffered damage and barely held out. It needed a total change. All good fun though.
