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Harris Lake - Marsh Farm, Milford.

1500 - 0000

Cool, calm and clear evening. Lovely evening for star (and planet) gazing - Jupiter is in oppostion at the moment so is particularly bright.  AT a chilly 9ºC when I packed up - felt a little autumnal!

9 Crucians; All bar one over 2lb (and even that one was only 2oz shy). Best 3: 3lb, 2lb 12oz, 2lb 9oz. 2 Tench; 4lb 9oz & 3lb 13oz. 4 Rudd.

Five hours without a bite (save for the micro rudd which annoyingly kept attacking a bare hook as I was trying to shot my waggler at the start!) followed by a couple of hours of frenetic activity. As so often happens here the dinner bell rang just as it got dark and by 10pm I'd had 10 fish - with the only bite after this time (nearly an hour later) being the bigger tinca. All fish caught mere inches from the bank in around 18 inches of water! (ie NOT where my float is in the cover pic). The fish here are used to the day ticket anglers discarding their bait in the margins and move in after closing time to hoover it up!

Crucian 3lb.jpg

Tench 4lb 9oz.jpg

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Bayleaf the Gardener

Not knowing Milford lake, I Googled it to find its the largest man-made lake in Kansas, (circa 15,700 acres) revered by anglers for its blue catfish and hybrid striped bass. Even more remarkable that you achieved such an amazing haul of crucians and made it home for bed time.

BTW - suddenly curious about the meaning of the world 'crucian', my quick skin-deep investigation suggested it is extracted from the Lower German karusse which translates as 'carousel'. Hmm, I'm none the wiser really, but Chris, I suspect you know better.

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Chris Plumb

Well crucians are quite round - particularly those that share their home with piscivorous predators - and change shape (they display phenotypic plasticity) to become even deeper (gape defence). Below is one I caught from Dixons many years ago which displayed this!

2-02 Crucian.jpg

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