Brrrrr Chilly, the trick on a day like this is to keep moving. Trotting is a good mobile style so 'pin and Fred Taylor Trotter, 3lb Maxima and wag&drag. Bait, red grubs!
Lots of depth adjusting and shot fiddling until bites suddenly showed up in a nice tree girt swim
Could they be roach?
Could they?
No, a 2lb, or so, chub splashed his way in. Still in these conditions most welcome
Next run through, well inching the float through, if truth be told, resulted in what looked like his smaller brother coming to net.
But on unhooking, the look of the scales and delicacy of the mouth warranted the Fat Angler checking the fins.......glad I did
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Any 12oz dace is worthy of his portrait being taken, even if only by a man with no photographic skills whatsoever!
No more bites after this.
The short journey home was accompanied by a silly grin and ridiculously bad singing
As ever,.......
Moley
