17/03/12

today i fished the right hand lake at hockley angling club, the weather changed a lot throughout the day and it rained a lot making it hard to use the pole, i was on peg 12 and i started with a margin line by a tree and after a couple of minutes of feeding micro pellets flavoured with tiger fish i got a bit from a f1 of about a 1lb which is a good start to the day, i went back hoping for another f1 but i didn't get a bite do after 5 minutes i started an open water swim with maggot, caster and krilled dead maggot i got a quick response from fish and i got a nice skimmer of about a 1lb too. i got a lot of roach on the line during the day and i kept looking at the margin and not a lot was happening apart from catching little roach. i caught a ide or two throughout the day and i decided to start feeding chopped up maggot with caster on it and i got a almost instant response from the ide and had a couple of about a 1lb and under which was a nice fish to catch, as the day came to an end i feed a bit more maggot and got a nice little crucain, with an hour left i only fished the margin and it paid off as i had a 4oz barbel and 2 more f1's of a 1lb, i then lost 2 f1's one which felt  lot bigger than my previous fish, i went back in the margin using maggot and i picked up a small roach and small ide to finish the day, i had around 9lb of fish which was good as it was a hard day.