Roach up in the water 9.5.2021
Grove Pond 3.30-5.30pm
I'd been told this lake holds roach up to about a pound, so the aim of today was to start a quest for these (also rudd and crucians) by experimenting with a new bait, meat. I've used big chunks of luncheon meat ledgering for chub and barbel, but only once tried smaller pieces on the float for smaller fish.
I started with maggot to build confidence. Quite slow, I soon found small pieces of meat approx 5mm square got just as many bites, and I hooked a couple of small roach. So I tried slightly larger bits of meat, and the revelation was that the roach were up in the water. I'd cast beyond the spot where I'd put the loose feed, and as I was winding in a couple of times a roach (no rudd on this occasion) hit the moving bait. So I adjusted the depth to about 3 feet, and for a while it was 'bite-a-chuck'. But they were very fast tricky bites and I hooked very few fish. Any tips? But I was very pleased to get 2 decent roach of 8oz and 15oz. So I had almost hit my 1lb target on day one!. I also caught a 2lb bream , which shouldn't have surprised me if I'd remembered that I've caught bream on floating dog biscuit in the past when fishing for carp.
A pleasing short session, I'll be back!
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