River Kennet, Newbury, Friday 13th August 2010

This was a just a short session of a couple of late afternoon hours at the swim where I caught perch last weekend, I was keen to give it another try to see if anything bigger was lurking under the trees.

Not much to report I’m afraid because I blanked, the only thing lurking was a load of signals which took great delight in devouring my lobworms. I even tried the nearby canal lock cut where small perch are guaranteed but it was the same story, nothing but crays.

I’m really puzzled by this, not the absence of big perch but by the absence of any, it was as if they just weren’t in the river or the canal. I didn’t have any maggots for feed this time but I don’t think that was the difference between catching or not. The day was overcast (as opposed to sunny last time out) so I would’ve thought light conditions were better, it was colder and I did have to suffer some heavy showers so maybe that made the difference, I don’t know.

Or perhaps it was the date

Whatever the reason I’ll be repeating the exercise tomorrow with my remaining lobs. The forecast is for a milder day so fingers crossed.