College Pool - 28.04.12

According to my weather app, Saturday morning would be the best of weekend weather, no rain and overcast. Venue was College pool at Wasperton, the Avon was looking high when I drove through the village. Lobworm the hook bait, one under a float in the margin and another on a running rig on the sleeper rod. Feed was chopped worm and red maggot flavoured with liquid worm.

Before the heavens opened and the wind started to blow a gale :) I managed a few Perch although nothing of size, and even this tiny Perch pictured with eyes clearly bigger than his belly. The hard fighting carp of college pool love lobworms and landed a lovely mirror a nudge over 9lb, a proper chunky fish and a great fight on light tackle.

DIY Isotope Holder - WIP

I've never been happy with the isotope holders available, always seem to be a compromise somewhere so I decided to try and make my own.

I'm a CAD designer by trade and I'm lucky enough to have access to a 3D printer, so I came up with a couple of designs and had them rapid prototyped. They were to designed to suit my solar 3.5mm diameter and 25mm long isotopes. Still WIP but hopefully get something more suitable for my Barbel rods. :)

Snitterfield Reservoir - 22.04.12

I decided to go for a few hours in the morning to Snitterfield Reservoir, it's 5 minutes from me so nice and convenient, I had some lobworms left over which I used on the sleeper rod and about 1/2 a pint of maggots which I used on the float. The bites were hard to come by, the bites I did get we're really fast, as if the fish were doing smash and grab tactics without actually swallowing the bait.

So with a couple of fishless hours I decided to move a few pegs down so I could fish amongst some weeds. I also switched to small red jelly pellets with I recently bought from WillyWorms, within a few minutes I had a weird looking Crucian which you can see in the picture below. Nothing on the sleeper rod and only a few more fish on the float so called it a day. Snitterfield can be funny, some days are brilliant, others hard work. It does fish far better during the summer months when the water has warmed up.

Credit to the Leamington committee for the new platforms, certainly makes the steep pegs more usable.