Perch - 2 firsts 14.5.12

6.30-9.30pm. Went to the pit again, and the first 2.5 hours were a blank. I was the only angler there, and you'd have thought there weren't any fish either. I tried spinning and float fished maggot and worm - not a bite. Then I tried jigged lobworm, and the response was immediate. Actually it was half a lob cos when I had a whole one on they just nipped off the tail.

I had five fish in the last half hour. All very small, but I was getting plucks and nibbles all the time. I'll have to find a way to get the bigger fish, and plastics is one obvious possibility. I've tried plastics a couple of times on the canal but not had a touch, but since a jigged bait is the way they seem to want it on this pit I've got some optimism.

So my first 'first' was perch on a new method, jigged lob. The second 'first' was that one of the fish could talk. Yep. It's never easy, of course, to interpret what a fish is saying, but this one was very clear. He said: 'Where are those lazy good-fer-nothing drop-shotters?' Well!

(Note. 16.5.12 I was hoping Mr perch's challenge would encourage certain local drop-shottters to have a go on this pit - BW. But I have just realised Rusty, at least, is off to Wingham. All the best there, Rusty! In the meantime I will try my self-taught brand of drop-shotting again to see if this pit is the drop-shotters' paradise I hope!)