Chris Plumb's Blog

Of Chris, that's a bad night at the office. 

It seems to me that Alders has flatlined lately - apart from the Welsh Wizard I saw in action a couple of weeks ago, who made it look so easy as he pulled out tench after bream after tench.

I'm got a full day fishing tomoz, so was thinking of Alders 6 til 8am then hopping the causeway for Willows, but I'll sleep on it tonight - if you're not catching there, no one can catch there. Don't worry - if I do go, I'll take a book for the long fishless hours.

That bl**dy lock is a nightmare waiting to recur. How I wish I'd kept the combination number when I was snared, but to be honest I was so relieved to be escaping after that panicky 45 mins, it didn't cross my bream-like mind. There must be a better way to allow us access and appease the Disco Centre who installed it - the gate on the way to Dobsons never seems to have this problem. I'll raise it (again) at next week's Committee meeting. In the meantime, personally I make sure I'm out of there before 10 now, even if the fish were starting to turn on when I left Willows on Tuesday.

PM incoming! There had been a match earlier that day - which I was told was won with 17lb - presumbly of tench and bream from a peg on the railway bank. (The chap I was chatting to waved his hand in the general direction of Peg 8.) Not sure there were many 'back-up' weights to this. On the subject of the combination lock - I think the club should make it available to members through the forum or FB page - both of which are restricted to members only. It won't be long before committee members turn off their mobiles at night in order to get some shut eye (and I can't say I blame them!)

Hmm, 17lb is a fair match winning weight (4 or 5 fish I guess), especially as their usual 10 til 3pm is not a great time, but it seems to be the Alders way that others may have struggled. It's packed with fish, so it does make me wonder what they key is. I was doing quite well on method feeder in Spring, but I'm going to start with float-fished pellets in the morning and see how it goes. Point totally taken re combination - I daresay there will be Disco Centre resistance to this, but something needs to be done.