Well, as you have probably guessed by me fitting in three weekends into one report, for Ian and myself, Blithfield didn't turn up anything spectacular. It's fair to say that we were presented with very difficult conditions every weekend bar the last one, from snow melt through to freezing fog so bad that we needed my mobile phones GPS just to navigate around the reservoir.

A handful of good fish were landed by others during our time there, but all Ian and I managed to locate was jack after jack pike. Ian did manage another mid double, this fish falling to a trolled Reef Digger, a lure of around 12" long!

Even though our catch rate was poor, we did learn an awful lot. Neither of us had ever trolled deadbaits, nor had we trolled lures ultra slowly along the bottom in 50 feet plus of water. Learning tactics like this made our sessions very productive in that respect, but the only problem now is we are going to have to wait until later on in the year before we can put them into practice again.

One of the main things I learnt about the sessions over at Blith, was that the Saturday evening’s festivities may need to be quieted down a little bit more come next season. I am only too happy to a have a drink or two (or three), but I really don't fish to effectively when I’m asleep in the front of the boat without a rod in the water!

Blith is still very much a water that excites me every time I go out afloat on it. Fishing away, knowing the next take could be from an unknown monster is what fishing’s all about. I just hope that either Ian or myself manage to hook into one of these beasts next time.