Fishing a crease 19.11.12
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3-4.30pm. Family commitments meant I was very late on the water today, and didn't have much longer than an hour. I went to a crease close to the town centre where I caught some reasonable dace in the summer. Initial plan was to trot bread as the fish are used to it there as people throw it in for the swans a bit upstream. The main aim was just to find out if the fish were still there.
Actually the swans were a bit of a menace. In the summer I was relieved that numbers seemed to have dropped, but this time there were 10 of them, including a couple of cygnets. Maybe a second brood? That wasn't expected as this was a bit away from the main swan area. How to get rid of them? I remembered a colourful character who had a friend on full-time duty bonking the swans gently on the head with a landing net. 'They don't like it!' he kept crying out, I think quoting 'Dad's Army'. The problem was these masochistic swans did like it. They seemed to see it as a great game, and queued up for a gentle tap on the head from my rod. Thank heavens no birders were there! So I switched tactic and ignored them and in the end , thankfully, they went away.
I fished half an hour with bread, but not a bite. I was beginning to think the fish had moved elsewhere, but switched to maggot and immediately hooked but lost a decent roach of about 12 oz. I then had a few small dace and a perch on maggot before bad light stopped play. I also lost another reasonable roach. What is it about size 20 hooks, roach and me?
Of interest for the future that in this swim they seem to prefer maggots to bread. It was the same in the summer.
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