Hunting River (Perch) Fish

Aren't tackle shops wonderful places - lots of nice shiny things to buy and a great source of (dubious) information. Today's information was, however, correct. The river was a bit coloured  and had been up about a foot at the beginning of the week. A match, upstream of where I intended to fish, was one with 8oz. This information was ominous enough with out them pointing out that there'd been hell of frost last night. The river was about 6" up and coloured when I got there. 

 








To cut a long story short. I fished three swims. The first produced one bite to maggot feeder. The second swim produced four bites to maggot feeder which resulted in a small roach and a bullhead. The third swim produced the only bite to worm. A particularly savage bite that resulted in the hook going missing, so I'm going to assume it was a pike.











The first proper frost of the autumn and a recent flood are not the best conditions for for fishing, but I didn't blank. Surprised at the lack of bites on worm as they normally do well in coloured water.