Nuelliac bridge 15 april 07

After such a good days fishing as yesterday on the Mayenne it is often difficult to get motivated to go again the next day , however having got on well with work this week , due to the brilliant weather I decided on a final shot at the Blavet. On arrival at the bridge it was obvious that things had changed in just the few days since I had enjoyed such good roach fishing. The water was much clearer , the flow reduced, and less fish movement by far. On the plus side it was windless and overcast again , so this time I opted for the waggler just to fish further out and pick up a bit more flow. I set up a 3aa peacock insert fishing 08 shogun hooklength to sz 18 b611. Fishing up in the water at about a metre I immediately started catching small roach . These tiny fish began to become annoying so I stopped feeding any maggot and just fed caster & hemp instead.
Swopping things about a bit with depth and shotting patterns did not really improve things much as the majority of fish were still small. I had the odd better roach and a chub of around a pound plus a couple of those big dace that Chinese Fred catches but I can not. All in all not as good as the last time I was here and glancing at my watch I thought about another ten mins would do . The next cast produced not the usual small fish but a solid thump on the rod tip and after a couple of lunges a hybrid not much short of 2lbs was in the net . Nice end to the best fishing break I have had for ages I
thought , still time to put it in again ( actress to the bishop ) another almost indentical fish, well I never! Someone smiling at me? Well sometimes all the water runs in your ditch ! I put it in again and down went the float , the next couple of minutes were spent testing an ABU 1044 in reverse gear and my mind trying to work out what I had hooked , too quick for a bream or probally a tench , my mind set on a good chub or a carp or possibly a foulhooked pike or zander. After quite a few quick runs the fish thumped hard close to the far bank for some time before I finally took control and was
supprised to see a hybrid of possibly 4lbs plus. HG and I struggled to get a photo of this fish due to camera playing up ( discovered spare batteries in case 2 days later )
This trip has been a bit like writing my own scripts, time for home and a bottle of red.