House lake - Wylands 5th Feb

I'm off back to Wylands House lake this weekend, for another practice session, not sure wether Ade(wingnut) will be joining me this time.

This time I'm going to try a few different methods:- waggler and also pole at 6 meters. using 4mm pellets

I'm aiming for around 20-30Lb bag for the day, which I think should be about right in this weather.

Well when I woke up saturday morning it had snowed over night, so I knew this was going to be hard fishing today.

I dropped the otherhalf to work, then remmebered I left me pole rollers at home so a quick trip back home to pick them up. I decided to go via Wishing Tree lake a local club water , when I drove past it wasn't frozen so I knew neither would be the house lake.

When I arrived at Wylands, I was amazed at the amount of people that was fishing, there was already 5 or 6 fishing the house lake. I knew where I wanted to fish so I could judge my performance over the last practice session with Ade(wingnut). I unloaded the gear and parked the car upand started to setup. I lake was still as there was little wind. I opted for the pole and set it up to fish at 6 meters. At this depth the lake seems flat at about 5 feet deep. Having already spoken to Trevor (M.T Net) the week earlier I had a good idea of how I should be fishing.

Bait wise I had 4 pints of red maggots, a tin of sweetcorn, some small red worms, and mixed up around 3lb of groundbait.

I treated the session as a match with a planned 15 minute break to get some food.

I fed 6 balls of groundbait at the off , followed with 2 pouches of red maggots, then shipped out with double red maggot on the hook.

Within seconds the float went under and small roach of about 6oz was swung to hand, it was back out again followed with pouch full of maggots again, soon the float disappered again, this time it was a rudd around 10oz mark. I continued to feed at every put in of the pole. With every 10-15 put ins I introduced a small ball of groundbait.

Once I built up enough food the swim I started to catch skimmer bream every cast, these ranged from 6oz to 1.5lb's .

At the break I changed onto a lighter elastic and used the same rig, then out again I had a couple more skimmers on the new tip, I started to feed a few grains of corn every few minutes. I tried sweetcorn on the hook as this normally brings the bigger fish, however this isn't the case I couldn't get a bite at all, however back to double red maggot the flaot disapeared within seconds.

I decided to give up around 3.15pm having used just over 3.5 pints of maggots and all the groundbait.

I would estimate I had a good 40-50lb of fish throughout the day.

The only thing I would say is that last time I fished with the method feeder for part of the session towards the island and did have bigger bream to 3.5lb's