13.3.21 - Dobsons
Well, another day of 40mph+ rains keeping me off the season end rivers for the comparative shelter of the lakes.
The west end of Dobsons this time, hunkering down in the thick trees of the carpark. The water was still choppy enough to deter float fishing and indeed fish. Sensing nothing was going to happen, at midday I moved around to one of my favourite swims where I have confidence that fish lie in the overhanging willow labyrinth, though luring them out can be tricky.
Good move, me. In the next 30 minutes. with a small pop-up in the method feeder the bait runner screamed into action three times. The first I played for a few minutes before the hook pinged out, fish unseen. The second, the 4-inch, 8lb method feeder link snapped in the middle during the fight, fish unseen. The third was on for five seconds then pinged off again. Unseen. And that was the last bite of the day under the willows to my right.
My second rod, similarly baited up and cast two rod lengths out to my left had no such good start. It sat ignored for three hours before the bobbin popped and with no pinged hook or any other major ordeal, the carp I expected to appear at the surface turned out to be a 4lb 7oz tench, sadly with the traditional Dobsons tench mouth damage from past battles. I cast to the same spot and five minutes later, the same bite, a much stronger fight and this one was also a tench, virtually its twin, also in need of cosmetic dentistry, but 3 ounces heavier.
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