I don't do a great deal of still water fishing, especially float fishing. This can be seen by the paltry collection of floats I have for still water. While I have enough river floats to stock a small tackle shop the still water floats would barely make a counter display. Quite a few of them seem to be Angling Times give-aways from donkey's years ago as well. I was setting up in the opposite corner to yesterday, mainly to avoid squinting into the sun to see the float. After a fair bit of casting about I'd found a clear spot for the method feeder which was fished similar to yesterday.
For the float I'd decided to start with four large balls of ground bait and loose fed maggots over the top. The ground bait didn't seem to have the desired effect as it was a couple of hours before I got my first bite. As yesterday double maggot got the bites but were very hard to hit at times. Eventually I managed a dozen roach, a perch and a hybrid. In the mean time the method feeder had produced nothing until I put a scopes cream pellet on. I had several drop back bites but never contacted with any thing. They could have been liners, but eventually I managed a little skimmer. Not the slab I was hoping for. A second fish of similar size would have been added had it not got itself into the weed and come adrift. Should have held the rod higher.
Like yesterday it was not the most rewarding of days but apart from pike fishing I've done very little still water fishing and really need to get to grips with it again. An angler on the opposite bank to me seemed to have quite a few fish to the pole and another had three decent looking fish on feeder. I'll be having one more go on the bank holiday to see if I can get any better. There seemed to be quite a few fishing crashing and swirling in one area over the weeds. I suspect they may have been the larger bream spawning.
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