Lure fishing for perch 12.8.13
Entry posted by The Flying Tench
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7.15-8.45pm
I went back to the spot where I fished yesterday, this time armed with a spring balance in the hope of catching a 'three'. I know lure fishing is meant to be mobile, but for minor health reasons I'm a bit limited how far I can walk, and also on this occasion I wanted to concentrate on this swim.
I started off with the Mepps Firetiger, as yesterday. 'Bang', first cast a nice perch of about 2lbs which got off at the net - drat, hope it won't scare the shoal. Second cast, a smaller one of a pound or so. A couple more casts and a nice perch of 2lb 5oz. At this point a boat came through and the swim seemed to go dead.
I rested the swim a bit and then switched to jigging a golden-glittery plastic worm. Joy of joys, a few casts and a 2lb 14oz perch. The first fish on one of these, which will give me confidence to try jigging more often. Then a couple of maniacal jacks that swam around furriously, also on the golden jig-bait. Though I couldn't say I was jigging when I caught them, they just attacked the bait as soon as it hit the water.
A great session. I didn't get a 'three', but was very pleased to get a perch jigging, which on reflection is also my best lure caught perch (unless I count the possible 'three' yesterday that I couldn't weigh.)
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