Its rare that l have to use my return
visit policy when guiding, yet a few weeks ago whilst zander fishing
at Old Bury Hill myself and regular customer Mark came up against the
odds and found ourselves on a night when the fishing was impossible.
We knew what it was, the full moon and although Mark did catch a
personal best carp, it wasn’t his target, so a return visit was
planned.
With a weather front that had placed
around thirty rivers on flood alert in the west country moving east
the session was almost abandoned, yet l know that the worse the
weather, the better the fishing. Arriving at 2pm we headed to my
preferred area along the long bank and soon had four rods fishing
sardine sections. The night before had seen loads of cold heavy rain
enter the lake and l had reservations whether this would have killed
the lake, yet a pike being weighed by another angler raised our
hopes. It wasn’t until the light started to fade that Marks
indicator rose slowly to the rod blank and a firm strike saw a
powerful fish hooked, yet unbelievably it was yet another carp, this
was getting a bit silly now. Luckily a couple of small zander soon
followed and with his first zander netted we started to relax, yet
with the wind gaining we knew our stay could at any point be cut
short. To give Mark a good chance of catching a few fish we had
agreed that although l would work my rods he would take runs on them,
however once he had caught a seven pounder l would swap the
right-hand reel handles back so l could have a fish. Fortunately most
of the following runs came on his own rods and with a flurry of
action that saw him net two good zander weighing 8lb 10oz and 8lb 7oz
at the same time l decided to have a fish. Re-baiting with fresh
baits l cast back out and straight away got a run which saw a very
big zander grace my net. Weighing exactly 12lb l knew l was one very
lucky angler and realised that the fishing god was once again looking
down. We both took another zander before the wind started to
strengthen and once the rain arrived around 9.30pm we looked at each
other, knew we had booth had a brilliant session and screamed ‘we
are serious anglers, get us out of here’.
Whilst this weather is still mild, the
zander fishing is still good, yet once the winter sets in it gets
harder so if you fancy a go you better get in touch soon.
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