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Lure fishing 3.10.11
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The Flying Tench
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03 October 2011
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A bright sunny day with reasonably high pressure, so I decided to leave the roach campaign and have a crack at lure fishing at dusk, on the basis that it might be the last good day for it this autumn. I went to a swim where, on a similar day 2 years ago, I had two high-double perch and a 5lb chub in 5 casts! But alas, I was without my trusty Mepps Aglia Hot Tiger no 3, and the larger lures I used were not appreciated by whatever was in there. Zilch.
So I moved to a tree on the canal where I also caught 2 years ago, but no success either for about 10 mins, so in desperation I put on a tiny bright orange Abu Reflex to try and get a small one. Several times a tiny perch came in with the lure, nibbling at the orange tassle, but not making a take. So I carried on just to see if I could coax one of these littluns to have a proper crack at the lure, and to my surprise - 2lb 2oz stripey! A fat and lazy fish that hardly fought, but it was very welcome, nonetheless.
Incidently, I noticed in the report on the recent probable record perch that it had gorged on fry and was very fat. I suspect mine was the same. There are a lot of fry around this year, I think, so maybe that bodes well for some autumn perch campaigns?
The whole outing was only an hour, cos I didn't want to push my bad back too much, but it was great to discover that, with the help of my corset/belt, I could handle a short outing spinning with the inevitable standing and walking that involves.
So I moved to a tree on the canal where I also caught 2 years ago, but no success either for about 10 mins, so in desperation I put on a tiny bright orange Abu Reflex to try and get a small one. Several times a tiny perch came in with the lure, nibbling at the orange tassle, but not making a take. So I carried on just to see if I could coax one of these littluns to have a proper crack at the lure, and to my surprise - 2lb 2oz stripey! A fat and lazy fish that hardly fought, but it was very welcome, nonetheless.
Incidently, I noticed in the report on the recent probable record perch that it had gorged on fry and was very fat. I suspect mine was the same. There are a lot of fry around this year, I think, so maybe that bodes well for some autumn perch campaigns?
The whole outing was only an hour, cos I didn't want to push my bad back too much, but it was great to discover that, with the help of my corset/belt, I could handle a short outing spinning with the inevitable standing and walking that involves.
C.