Menu for the day is Yellow groundbait very fluffy , tub of water for dipping the fingers in to keep them clean and also to wetten the mix a little. Dead red maggot is all i have but would have preferred some old maggot that had been crawling around in sand for a couple of days
Had 2 kilos of Top Mix Red for the 10m line on the 7 m whip
The killing method to be 7 cm of link line holding a Tubertini 14 hook with maggot thread to the tail of the knot.
Started at 12:20 and had bleak from the off at 3 metres at a depth of 30 cm.......quickly got a pattern going and concentrated on the catching of the fish and using the hand to shake it off , also to try and get several fish on the one maggot. The Bleak came good but now and again small jack pike hit the swim with also Perch. Also to get a good pattern , as soon as i hit a fish and started to swing the fish , i fed every time with a ' pinch' of wetted groundbait. Later got better results as i fed every 3-5 fish. Carried on till about 14:50 and i counted 188 bleak , many of them being small but the odd one going 20-30 gr. Had a call from Bob Nuddanen, then everything changed as i started to get roach all the while and closer in on a 1.7 m whip !!....then Bingo !......i caught more roach,perch ,small ide and bigger bleak then was a surprise to hit 3 bream averaging a 1.25 kilo each .......and lost 2 others.
weight of Bleak i estimate to be 5 kilos-ish with the roach ,perch and Ide it must have gone 9 kilos-ish plus the bream , i reckon 12 kilos-ish
Quite a pleasant surprise to catch these on a bleak rig , be it 1.7m long !!
Dedication of thanks to Lars Boden for technical help with this article , his advice was paramount for a successful day. (CERTAIN TECHNICAL POINTS TO THIS FISHING ARE NOT REVEALED )
A Bleakers hand - many small holes from the hook
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Tell me if you need a call during a match...I guess the phone call made the bigger fish move in between the short whip "whippin´" up the surface...or maybe it was my soulful karma :)
Mvh Tikkanen
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