Part 3 Trying something different.

Well I have been fishing a lot lately, if you call it fishing I think what I was meant to say was I've been turning up with my fishing tackle and sitting beside the water hoping to catch what lives in there.

I'm going to take my mind off that colossal 4lb perch for the mean time, because I want it so badly I fear that I will never catch it so I need to try a bit of reverse physiology on myself, completely fish for some other species and bang I catch unexpectedly not what you call perch fishing but this is war, times are hard at the moment and I can't catch a cold. Been fishing far to many times and blanked not good for the morale but I must keep going because there's light at the end of the tunnel.

                   Admiralty lake

So now back to the fishing I've been after the carp at Gabrielle's in edenbrigde fishing the big carp lake,well more like a pond someone would have in there back garden, there reputedly fish to near gigantic proportions in this small lake wow surely I'm in with a chance of a biggy, so I turned up bright and early and buzzing at the thought of contact with a monster. To cut a long story short I sat there most of the day freezing my nuts off and blanked only time my buzzer made a noise was when Mr swan pick my bait up uuggghhh I'm not a happy angler.

              Small river at edenbrigde 

So now I want to try moving water might give me more of a chance so I'm off down to edenbrigde to fish the river that runs through the town never fished it before so let's see what happens.

First time I went down I was ment to go down with my mate Dave who unfortunately done his back in when his beloved footy team scored so I went on my own just took some bread spent a couple of hours on this delightful little river and if you believe all the story's the locals tell you there are some big fish in there. Not the day I went, totally wrong bait should of been using cheese so captain blank strikes again. So the following week I went back this time armed with cheese I know it's not worms or live bait for perch, but as I've said before I'm need to catch something that swims in water.

So the following Saturday I take another trip down the river first couple of swims I sat in not even a nibble these were good looking swims over hanging trees, dying off reed beds, under cut banks I must being doing something wrong or is it just me all the fish gather round my bait and sit there laughing at me saying look at that plonker as if that is going to catch us. So I move once again and this swim looks awesome.

                    my last swim

So this is it the last swim ill give it an hour or two in here and see what happens if I have no luck then I will have to try harder. I'm still waiting for my reward for all this effort I'm putting in, anyway a nice big bit of cheese on a size 8 drennen super specialist hook 6lb hook link with 6lb main line attach to my John Wilson Avon quiver tip rod couple with a Shakespeare centre pin reel my serial blanking brother gave me, now I must say my set up looks pretty cool but its no good if I can't catch on it.

My first cast in the swim and it lands just perfect in a nice crease slight bow in the line so I know that it's holding bottom I'm not moving it I'll just leave it there, now there always that nagging feeling is it fishing properly. By joe it is after what seems like an hour (30mins) at the most there's a slight twitch on the tip of my rod, I said to myself surely there's not a fish out there stupid enough, and with in that the rod hoops round and I lift into what seems like a dead weight, the fight is hard feels like I'm on back of a boat fighting a marlin please be a perch of colossal per portions on cheese I know I know but I can dream. The fights over within a minute or so and a clonking great big chub rolls over the cord of the landing net wow that's a beast and at 4lb 2oz it's personal best for me and I'm jumping up and down saying yes I didn't blank GET IN happy days.

                      P/B 4lb 2oz

Unsurprisly with all that noise I didn't catch anymore but still what a fish.

So it just shows you that time and effort equals reward and I think that what I've put in over the last few weeks and months I've been rewarded with a P/B not the fish I'm after but what a beast more than happy with that chub. so the search for my big perch continues I'm not going to give up because if I put the time in I know what is going to happen it's just a question of when? so until next time Tight Lines.