Dace Attack 2 - failed (18.11.13)
Entry posted by The Flying Tench
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2-4pm. A beautiful grey day, should have been just the job. My plan was to fish Colthrop (a stretch of Kennet for info of non locals), but for some reason my key didn't work so I couldn't get through to the main part of the complex and was limited to a few swims on the back stream.
My aim was to catch a reasonable dace, ideally to improve on my sparse pb of 6.5oz. I tried about 5 swims, but not a touch till the last, somewhat slower and deeper, swim where I caught a few very small dace and gudgeon.
Did I learn anything? One of the issues I find with trotting at this time of year is that, if you fish really close to the bottom, you catch a lot of twigs. For this reason I was about 6-12 inches off the bottom much of the time in the faster runs, and it was only when I got so deep that I was regularly catching twigs that I got any bites. I'd thought that with dace you don't need to be too close to the deck, but maybe that's wrong? Something to experiment with another time.
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