03/03/12

today i went to hockley angling club and by the look of the weather i thought i would catch sine big perch, i fished the peg 15 on the right hand lake, i set up two lines on the pole one over a groundbait and another over chopped up worm and maggot, i first looked at the groundbait line and nothing happened for an hour, then i hooked into what i though felt like a decent fish but it turned out to be a fail hooked ide but it was still a fish, i then put more groundbait in and the bites started coming but i was missing a lot of them, i thought it was a good time to have a look at my over line with a maggot on the hook i started to catch more fish although they were small roach for a while, it then went hard again, so i put more feed in both swims, i caught a couple of small roach on my groundbait line and then had another look on my other line with a maggot and ended up catching two 4oz perch which was a Small relief, i then went a long time by only catching a couple of small roach, into the afternoon i started to feed more worms to hope i would get a big fish there, i had a bite nearly straight after i put the feed in, it was a big f1 but it sadly came off at the net which was a huge disappointment as i knew that might of been my only chance to get a big fish, to knock my confidence even more i started bumping big fish, in a last ditch attempt i feed more and waited on a big bit of lob worm, then my work paid off as i was into another fish, and it was a bigger perch, i was so grateful i landed it as it as just under 2lb, i finished the day with only about 4lb of fish, i knew after that terrible session that i had chosen the wrong peg as it was to far in the corner and i needed to be close to the middle of the lake, this was a terrible start to fishing in march.