I have had to cancel the Molesey Anglers Curry Club night out tonight as every one will be watching the Chelsea match (don’t know what all the fuss is about, they used to have to pay me to go to matches at Stamford Bridge, ball’s the wrong shape anyway).
A day all to myself with decent weather forecast so I decided to go fishing, just for myself. During the courses in the Easter Holiday I had been looking at a swim at Twynersh on lake three that I fancied should be the home of some of the big roach I know the lake holds. I went to see Vince at Davies Angling in Staines yesterday and he sold me a lot of cheap casters that were just past their best. Most have gone in the freezer but I took a couple of pints with me today, a large tub of Dynamite Frenzied Hemp, some liquidised bread, a couple of slices for hook bait and some lobworms.
The swim I wanted to fish is right in a corner, underneath an overhanging bush on the adjacent bank, the water shelved from twelve or so feet upto seven and a half feet. To achieve accurate and precise float presentation I decided to use a recent aquisition, a twelve meter pole that I am still trying to master.
With the pole fished at ten meters I was able to present a small pole float with a size twenty hook to one and a half pound hook length right under the bush in the shade, which big roach are so fond of.
During the next three hours I fed hemp and caster at first then mixed some chopped worm with liquidised bread, hemp and caster. The hook bait was nearly always caster but both worm and bread were tried on a different rig with a bigger hook. One bite was all I had all day but it confimed my suspicions as the result was a fin perfect one pound nine ounce roach.
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