3.30-5.30pm

The plan was to fish with maggots and lobs for perch, chub and maybe trout. From which locals may be able to deduce the weirpool! But when I arrived, although the AT was 9degC, I was shocked to see the WT was still only 5degC, which I feared might not be to the liking of sergeant stripey.

So it turned out. I started with trotted maggot to try and find out where the fish were, but didn't get a touch. Switched to lobworm with maggot feeder, and chose to try a number of places in the weirpool rather than slowly building up one swim. My theory was that, with the cold water temp, the fish were unlikely to move around and I had to go to them. A slow day, but got one nice Brownie of 1lb 8oz from fairly fast water towards the tail of the pool, which saved me from blanking.