Carnage

The wind swung round to the south west and increased in strength.  Nothing too bad and combined with hazy skies what you would think were perfect fishing conditions. 

I'll keep it short.

A bream to start, then a big ide. Nice, we're going to have a mixed bag ? Wrong.

After that, a large proportion of the bream population of the entire Rhine system took up residence in mine and Bully's swims. Fished long, come in short, the result was the same.

No roach anywhere. Not surprising, who'd want to be in the middle of that lot ?

It was fun seeing the tip go round and playing the fish, some went quite well. The unhooking, less so, balancing on the rocks with a big snotty lump.

As the light faded they switched off. Same as yesterday. 

For a while it was totally dead, but just before it was pitch black I had a mad ten minutes, landing roach of a pound, just over 2lb and 2lb 5oz. 

It had been a mad day. Twenty six bream between 7 and 8lb, two big ide and three roach to 2lb 5oz. Bully had around twenty big bream and a fish he said looked like a rudd but had two spikey spurs on the dorsal fin. I reckon he's been shaamokin' da big fat Dutch doobie.

We calculated that lot came to well over 300lb.

Crashed out in the van drinking beer and eating bread, cheese, nuts, chocolate and anything that didn't need cooking. We were wiped out and fished out.