I am back on the deep dark mysterious water not far from my house.
Been float fishing one of the shallow areas just over a drop off about three feet deep.
Tench to 5lb, Crucian to 3lb, Roach to 1.5lb, some small carp to a pound and small Rudd.
This week been smashed twice by something big, spade ends to 5lb hooklength.
This evening caught a bunch of razor mussels, hook inside one! Four Tench, three Crucian, a Rudd and several nice Roach. The Tench were all small so they must be breeding well.
A 9lb 9oz bream caught by a mate a few days back, no bream for me yet.
Skimmers to 2lb have made a showing.
Perch are now making an appearance up to around a pound.
One 17lb carp has fallen to another rod but no more to anyone else yet.
No eels reported yet.
Everything in there grows big and the prospect of the Perch growing large is mouthwatering.
It's still a hard water but whilst I have found a method that works I will stick to it, no one else has even fished the peg I have been catching from.
Had a 22lb carp on dog biscuits from the smaller easier pool last week, an opportunist catch totally unplanned, was walking past on way back to car and saw carp milling about so had one cast at them!