Busy

Doing "stuff". Fishing related stuff. And fishing of course. Full week of work on the horizon.

After the season ends of course.

Pre baiting with seed and corn on Saturday in the bream swim ( secretly hoping for a rare carp...or even rarer tench ).

Started on a new ( for me ) book, "A Glorious Waste of Time" by Jim Gibbinson. Unmistakably him. No nonsense, logical and just a touch of teacher. Good though.

Cleaned the van out at the weekend.  Couple of days away and it was like a skip, stuff everywhere.  Bit of velcro here and there and some bungies and it's looking tidy. Or tidier.

That's the " before" photo in case you didn't know.

Blanked on the upper river on Sunday evening.  Wasn't feeling it.

TCG had two chub though, with the biggest at 5lb 5oz. Kept telling me it was because I should have used cheese paste, not bread. He's the Billy Graham of cheese paste, a proper evangelist, preaching the good news to the uncoverted.

I stuck to bread.

I woke up the next day undecided what to do. The forecast told me it was to be the last mild day, so I made the trip to Cambridgeshire to fish with Waaaak and caught some nice, but not huge rudd. Loads of fish with several over a pound to maybe a pound and a half.

Lots of hybrids too, some roach x rudd, bream x roach and one that looked like a rudd or roach x silver bream.  Is that even possible?

The weatherman told me it was going to be 14 degrees C and sunny in Ely. I almost put my shorts on.

In reality it was about 8 deg, cloudy and with a horrible north easterly pushing upstream. I got cold and left early.

As I drove back the car thermometer rose until I parked up at the local river with it at 14 deg.

Quick go in the pre baited swim then.

A nice dace, a chub and last cast on dark a clonking bream.

I normally avoid bream if possible but these ones from The Forbidden are in pristine condition and most certainly uncaught. In the three or four seasons I've fished this section I've only ever seen a couple of anglers.

A few days of the season left, then it's all change. Summer species, fishing in T shirts and shorts and plenty of time away in the camper

That's as close to a plan I've got so far.