Mepps Aglia Firetiger No3 11 August 2013
Entry posted by The Flying Tench
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8.15 to 8.45pm
A short session to see if I could catch a perch spinning at a hotspot on the canal. My first cast hit the water with too much of a splash well short of where it was meant to go, but still, just as I was about to finish the retrieve, a good fish was on - about 2lb, but annoyingly I had forgotten my scales. Amazingly I had fish on each of the next 3 casts, one more about 2lb, one a high 'two', and one could well have been a three. I was almost relieved that it wasn't even bigger, as I'd have gone away not knowing if I'd had a pb (my best is 3lb 6oz). Unike some on AN I've never had more than two 2lb plus perch in a sitting, so I was really pleased to have 4 in 4 casts!
All the fish were on my trusty Mepps Firetiger No 3. In fact, nearly all the decent fish I have caught spinning, including my best lure-caught pike and chub, have been on this lure. Why? It may be that it's a very easy lure to work. In truth you don't need to 'work' it at all, you just have to wind it in, though sometimes there is a little bit of skill getting it really low in the water, though not a factor today. Or is it that I have more confidence with htis lure, or use it more often than any others? So after 4 fish in 4 casts I switched to a silvery grey 'real fish look' plastic. 5 casts, nothing, although I did get a couple of 'bangs' on one of the retrieves, something that doesn't normally happen. I then went back to the Mepps, and first cast another perch, albeit a smaller one this time, under a pound.
After that a few casts where even the Mepps Firetiger didn't get a response. I had put the fish back in where I had landed them, which I realised might have scared the shoal, and in all honesty I had caught enough, and preferred to leave any others till I could come back with some scales. So I went home very pleased after my best ever catch of perch - in 4 casts!
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