Sunday, 6 April 2014

First Perch Session (Littleton)

The first session of this new campaign saw me at Littleton today, the huge club gravel pit, with Perch in my sights....and despite doing everything I set out to do I blanked, not so much as a bite!

Admittedly I dropped into the first swim I came to but it was disappointing nonetheless, the only positives being that I learnt a few things.

The first being the water itself and the area I fished, on the southern most side, was devoid of any features with depths of just 4' in the margins and 7' at 30 yards, a lot shallower than I'd expected and away from the margins the whole area appeared covered by a low layer of weed. Looking at the map the western most edge, in and around the sailing club, could be interesting as the moored boats themselves are a feature and of the kind that Perch are known to frequent?

Most of what I learnt though was tackle related, nothing major just a few small tweaks that are needed.....

Marker float - the bottom of which is occasionally sticking in the large ring, a button or circular piece of cork could be the solution here.

Bobbins - the fitted chains on the two I have are too short, swapping one for a length of braid should suffice.

Reels - one of the two I use has developed a problem with the winding mechanism that results in the handle loosening, it may have to go back to the manufacturer but fingers crossed I can fix it.

Bait wise the prawns held up well, I did intend to zap the hook baits in the microwave for a few seconds to harden them up a little but as it was they stayed on the hook without a problem; the compost ground bait base also performed well creating a nice cloud and held the loose feed of maggot, liquidised bread and chopped worm better than I'd expected.

Easter's coming up and I've got six days off work, time to start planning the next trip out.

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