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Alders Lake - Thatcham

1830 - 2300

Warm, sunny evening with a gentle breeze for much of it - which kept the mossies off for all but the last hour. 25ºC when I arrived - still 17ºC when I packed up.

3 Bream: 4lb 4oz, 3lb 14oz, 3lb 11oz. 1 Tench 3lb 13oz. 3 Carp; all ¾-1lb. 3 Perch - all 6-8oz.

Productive evening which got off to a slow start. And whilst I had a perch first cast I'd have to wait 2 hours for my next bite. All the fish then came in a 90min spell around dusk. Again the little carp fought well above their weight - kidding me into thinking I was into tincas. (All were re-homed next door). After 2200 I was plagued with strange bites - which proved to be signal crayfish (I even landed one of the blighters) - damn nuisance as they were on the bait as soon as it touched bottom - so whilst I had intended to fish till midnight - they prompted an 'early' pack up!

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Bayleaf the Gardener

Well done, Chris. That seems a pretty regular bag from Alders, I wish I could work out how to keep in one place the bream shoals that I'm sure swim up and down the lake. Those signals are back with a vengeance. I've read that they are not bothered with artificial sweetcorn. I've certainly caught fish on the stuff hair-rigged on methods feeder and lift in recent months. Might not be the preferred bait, but if it does the trick...

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Chris Plumb

Yeah - a 'par' return for the venue - though I do wonder if their are 2 bream shoals - the 4lb average size that I seem to attract and the 5lbers that you've banked recently!

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Bayleaf the Gardener

I only catch the big'uns, ha ha. Curiously, I've tended to catch them (and had bouts of persistent line bites/fish playing with the bait and not taking) off the lilies aiming for tench rather than in line with the popular wisdom that they prefer open water. Do you find similar?

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Chris Plumb

YES - pretty much ONLY fish close to the lillies on Alders - and I think alot of the 'liners' etc are down to the signals!

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