Despite the floating Duck Weed and Eel Grass drifting up and down a friend and I had decided to have a session after the roach on the Creek.
Predictably after all the calm and sunny days it was a windy and damp evening with that horrible drizzle blowing onto you so that on one side you look misted and the other side dry. Sadly, because of the low cloud it was almost dark by seven o'clock so it was an early finish because of the lack of light. All I managed was one roach, one rudd and one bream, all taken on stewed wheat.
My companion, using float fished maggot caught more roach, rudd and hybrids but his catch also included a jack pike and two bleak. They're the first bleak I've seen in the village waterway so no doubt they will gradually infest the river but the pike, perch and zander will dine handsomely if they do seriously populate the river. What a juicy mouthful a shoal of bleak make.
Better luck next time then?
I've never caught a bleak John. Ray Mumford used to catch a few. In his shirt,tie and jumper.
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ReplyDeleteThey are always a Thames fish and a pest in the days of the 'goer' size limits. They were like piranha on any bait. I remember Ray Mumford too, saw him on the Thames at Kingston a few times.