20.4.21 - Willows
A fab Tuesday evening after the first few warm days of Spring. Walking around to choose a swim, I watched half a dozen carp basking in the shallows, Deciding I'd spook them if I made any sort of cast. I walked on, tackled up and pinged a method feeder towards the island, and had a still hour to consider the wisdom of ignoring an area with fish in before the rod top bent round. I thought it was a small one as it seemed quite willing to be wound in, until the moment we saw each other, at which point we had a bit of a ding dong on a light rod until he came in, a 9lb 6 Common.
That would have been enough to make it a pretty good evening when, within 30 minutes, I had a 4lb 5 Common, followed immediately by a 3lb 8 Mirror and then a surprise 3lb 6 bream who put all his energy into giving the best bite of all, before flopping, exhausted, back to the net.
Presuming the carp would come to the margins in the final hour, I switched to a float and managed a last gasp half pound tench, a beautiful little fish, to cap off the fun.
Edited by Bayleaf the Gardener
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