In Search of Silver

The plan for this weekend was for Toby and I to do some sliver bashing, at our new clubs flagship fishery - Border. We opted to fish on Robbie's pool a smallish pool with 24 pegs. One half of the pool was covered by ice so finding a couple of pegs between an inlet, we started on pegs 1 and 2. Fishing light on a waggler with a couple of red maggots on the hook. I was soon into my first fish, a nice but really small Roach, Toby followed suit shortly after  with a small red fin of his own.

And that's when things started to go downhill, Toby managed to nab another couple of small Roach over the course of the next hour, I however didn't manage quite so well, in fact it was about two hours until I had my next bite, and I missed that!
With that it was time for a move, the ice that had earlier covered the other half of the pool had cleared, and presuming that this deeper end of the pool would hold more fish we tried pegs 11 and 12. Toby carried on with the waggler tactics, I changed over to a small maggot feeder sticking with maggot on the hook, to no avail, cage feeder half loaded with hemp to worm no joy, method feeder to corn was equally successful. By this stage my sidekick had taken to stalking the roach with his float fished maggot, well I say stalking, his approach was to chuck his bait out and hope it landed on a fishes nose, which it started to do at surprisingly regular intervals.

The Mighty Red Fin

As sun was starting to set we had managed to put about 20 small roach on the bank, considering the conditions we were very happy to have avoided the dreaded blank. But mocking us the water started to come alive with surface action, and as we packed up the talk was of coming back and plucking out the Carp that were teasing us now and avoiding us all day.

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