Trev fished the pole using maggot and corn, on the bottom to start with but when he switched to 'on the drop' the bites became a lot more frequent with corn tempting the slightly bigger fish.
I gave my new Avon rod a work out using a small feeder packed with hemp and corn plugged at both ends with liquidised bread, a single grain of corn on the hook and a quivertip for bite indication, I was getting good solid bites from the off but they were so fast I couldn't hit them! Assuming these were small Roach snatching at the hook bait I ignored the lightning fast bites and only hit the slower pulls and slight drop backs, which worked and I ended up with five or six half decent fish, the two largest of which weighed a healthy 7 ounces, a whole one ounce over my previous PB.
Roach - 7oz |
It isn't a big water so locating them shouldn't (famous last words) be too much of a challenge, it's a lovely looking water as well and I'm really looking forward to paying it another visit.