20.5.22 - Dobsons
Entry posted by Bayleaf the Gardener in Dobsons
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A treat for me to have a fishing day with the revered PeterJG. I arrived at 5:15am to find my partner already set up on the bank, rods out and primed for hot fishing action. However, being the gent that he is, Peter insisted on not catching anything while I set up, and for a good hour or more afterwards.Naturally, I returned the compliment and we both remained biteless before I eventually broke the protocol with an 8oz bream. It was a strange day. Very enjoyable, but with the fish cagey and an unpleasant 2-hour burst of rain right up til lunch time. By close of play that afternoon, I'd managed 17 roach, at least half over 4oz with several in the 8-10oz bracket plus a few perch. The highlight (beyond smirking at PJG's excellent supply of jokes) was a tench. This came when my float was only a foot away from the bank, and came as a complete surprise to both me and fish. It came in after a pretty puny fight at a rather splendid 6lb 2oz, and a new pb for me. This was supplemented by a second, equally passive tench at 5lb 1. I was denied the hattrick after a third decent connect led to a seemingly bigger fish dropping of the hook unseen. It's two line-stealing drives were slow and lumpen making me think that it was just maybe a bigger tench yet rather than a carp, but alas I will never know.
As our brollies steam-dried in the afternoon sun, Peter made me roar with laughter once more with tales of his boilie-making experiments of years gone by. 'One,' he told me, ' I christened Blue Moon as that's how often you got a fish with it. Another, I told the lads on the bank, I called Millennium Mix as you only caught one fish every 1,000 years on it!'
I left Peter to it, to catch the fishes of the day that he deserved. I trust they turned up.
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