​Alders Lake

​​2000 - 2330

​Warm, overcast with a bit of a breeze.

​3 Bream; 4lb 7oz & 2lb 14oz X 2 (possibly same fish!)

​Had planned an evening on Willows - float fishing the margins in the hope of snaffling one of the lake's big crucians - but the ducks and geese were a total pain in the wotsits! Ducks constantly swimming through my line and making a beeline for my swim from all points of the compass whenever any bait hit the water - geese too - but they then decided to come up on the bank and every time my back was turned started trying to get into my bucket and peck at my holdall! One then did a massive **** on my rod bag - and by then I'd had enough!!! Trouble is they are so used to getting fed next door they were completely fearless - impossible to scare them off!!!

So after 2 hours battling with the wildfowl I was on somewhere considerably more serene. Still no tench from here this summer - but the bream, as ever, were obliging!