After casting out my rods, I began tidying up my usual 'set up in a hurry' mess, and began setting up my day shelter. Half way through that I looked at my rods, and the middle bobbin was hanging very low, it then slammed into the rod blank, then dropped low again. Shocked somewhat to have a bite; excited also, though tempered slightly by the obvious 'Bream-like' nature of the bite, I eventually got to the rod and tightened up to the fish.
It felt heavy, but gave no fight, and it was no surprise to pull a Bream into the landing net. However I was still pleased as my previous biggest fish caught 30yrs ago, was 6lbs, and this looked bigger. It went 8lb 10oz, so a new PB. Photo done and after it shared some lovely Bream-slime with me and the net it swam off strongly.
I cast the 18mm boilie rig back out on the same spot, and turned to finish off the shelter, all done, and I began packing my kit away inside it... one I noticed the middle rod's bobbin doing it's dance again. Leant into the fish; it felt very Bream like again and this proved to be true as I drew another large Bream into the net
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| 8lb 10oz Bream |
Anyway, enough nonsense. I fished 3 rods again, one again with the KD rig and a pop-up and bottom bait, one standard hair rig with a tiger nut, and one KD rig with a bottom 18mm boilie. I cast one rod close to the island, on about 35yds out, 20 yds to the left of the island and one far to my left and about 40yds out.
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| 9lb 4oz Bream |
After casting out my rods, I began tidying up my usual 'set up in a hurry' mess, and began setting up my day shelter. Half way through that I looked at my rods, and the middle bobbin was hanging very low, it then slammed into the rod blank, then dropped low again. Shocked somewhat to have a bite; excited also, though tempered slightly by the obvious 'Bream-like' nature of the bite, I eventually got to the rod and tightened up to the fish.
It felt heavy, but gave no fight, and it was no surprise to pull a Bream into the landing net. However I was still pleased as my previous biggest fish caught 30yrs ago, was 6lbs, and this looked bigger. It went 8lb 10oz, so a new PB. Photo done and after it shared some lovely Bream-slime with me and the net it swam off strongly.
I cast the 18mm boilie rig back out on the same spot, and turned to finish off the shelter, all done, and I began packing my kit away inside it... one I noticed the middle rod's bobbin doing it's dance again. Leant into the fish; it felt very Bream like again and this proved to be true as I drew another large Bream into the net
This one looked bigger, and I hoped for a double figure fish, but it only went 9lb 4oz but a new PB again, so all good. No more bites came my way, I had another doggie visitor to the swim, but just the one, so an improvement
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