Crai Reservoir...hunt for a wild brown trout

Tomorrow I am hoping to spend the best part of the day fly fishing for wild brownies. My father has recommended the black buzzers so I will be employing a team of them. Fings crossed for light winds and no rain tomorrow as the weather forecast foretells. Catch sults will be on here tomorrow.

Walpole

Valley Farm fisheries in Walpole was fishing very well a fortnight ago, tactics were banjo feeders with Schnitzulwurst sausage soft pellets and a mussel and oyster hookbait....




I had about thirty fish over the two days on this set up though none were larger than 6lb. I attempted fishing bread on the surface and managed to get a chub as the bread dropped during the late afternoon!



Spring is in the air! I saw a grass snake sunning itself on the bank and there seems to be a lot if insects stirring. I apologize for the brevity of this post, I hace started a new job as an Environmental Field Scientist which is absorbing my daylight hours!!!!

I will be hoping to visit this venue again next weekend, spent 24 hours carp fishing at a venue known as Camelot lake in Wortwell and completely blanked! Will post the session on here tomorrow!

Halesworth lake (Wissett)

A friend of mine has spent the day at Halesworth lakes and had two carp from the smallest lake on flouro pop ups, one 5lb and the other 11lb. I am 300 miles away in Wales but I was there in spirit!

Wye

The Wye in Hay-On-Wye looks interesting, a lot of flow and debris.

Dead baiting at the Ocean Pit.

I am hoping to have a session dead baiting at the Ocean Pit Weybread in Suffolk in a about a weeks time. Got some good pike traces in a shop in Ross-On-Wye, the guy in there was very helpful and was suggesting I have a go after some barbel on the local stretch of the Wye. Will post everything on here!

Below is a picture of the shop location in Ross-On-Wye and two pictures of the Ocean Pit.

Flounders at Dunwich!

I fished Dunwich beach on Saturday 11th February with some friends. I am not an experienced beach fisherman and have no gear of my own so I borrowed my brothers Browning beach rod and Grandfathers Mitchell reel as well as other gear.

Dunwich has sandbanks and gullies running parallel to the beach. I used a standard two hook rig which allowed for both baits to be fished close to/on the bottom. I knew there was a sandbank in front of me because of the breaking waves at low tide, I decided to fish around this feature.

There was a small swell in the water but the sea state was fairly calm, the water was not overly muddy. As the tide pushed in for an hour I had a flounder of 25cm, this was caught on the far side of the sand bank so I decided to cast to that spot again. This yielded a good result in the form of a 30cm flounder. We were expecting dabs so the flounder were a pleasant surprise.

I enjoyed the day and think I may invest in some beach fishing gear now it has kindled my interest!