11am to 3pm

The forecast was a bright clear day with high pressure, and I was unable to make dusk - and unwilling to make dawn! I decided to visit a weir pool which I used to fish when I was in Newbury, and which used to hold a good shoal of decent sized perch, to see whether my new art of ultra-lite, taught to me by Kappa, landed more fish on the bank than I used to get by traditional spinning. Though the water level was very low, and I wasn't sure how 'up for it' the perch would be.

Short answer - yes, ultra-lite got more! At the start it was bite-a-chuck, and I got about 10 perch in 20 minutes. But none were over a pound, and most were under half a pound. My switching to a bigger lure coincided with the sun breaking through, and the feeding spree stopped. So I really need to go again in better weather conditions to try for some better perch.

After that I switched to ledgering bread flake, and picked up a couple of bream. Then from about 1.30pm it all seemed to go dead, with little tweaks and tugs on the quiver tip with no proper bites.