5/01/07 - Show Off!

After the introduction to Badger Drain, Wink and I couldn't think of anything else and all the places we had planned on fishing seriously were well and truly forgotten. We had planned to concentrate on a completely different area this time from where we had fished yesterday. We knew we had a lot of water to cover if we were to reach our target of getting to a certain spot before chub fishing in the afternoon. With what we had learnt the day before, we decided to leap frog the rods every 10 minutes as most of the runs the previous day had happened on the drop.

It turned out that the action was not to be as fast and furious as before, but a the same time, we did wonder whether the pace we were moving was narrowing down our chances of a large Pike that could just be holding up waiting to feed. We reached our Mark earlier than expected with only a lost Jack and a follow from a near double to show. We decided before leaving to try the productive spot again just to see if anything was actually feeding. After sitting in a swim for about 30 minutes, about 20 minutes longer than we gave anywhere else, Wink had a run. You can probably guess what it was.... Yep another PB, this time being in the shape of a 16lb 8oz croc! Talk about from Zero to Hero! We then decided that we would rest the place and stick to the Chub fishing plan.

On arrival to our Chub venue we were horrified to see a match angler fishing the swim we had primed the evening before with halibut pellets! Gutted, but that's the way it goes sometimes; they would wait!

         

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