When Mat Vickery contacted me with the
intent on catching his first ever zander, l thought, Old Bury Hill,
October, no problem, however Mat is a very keen lure angler and his
intension was to catch one on a lure.
I must admit l have watch others
anglers lure fish and have never seen much joy, especially on the
zander front, however I was keen to watch how a good lure angler
retrieves. Unlike how must anglers fish, mat retrieves very slowly,
not unlike ‘sink and draw’ fishing for pike and was soon into a
fish, albeit a pike. A few more hits were missed before the thumbs up
came and Mat landed his first ever zed on his preferred method.
As the witching hour approached the
next method, sardine sections hair-rigged started to get some
attention and it was long before the first zander fell, one of around
five pounds. The action then increased and come 8.30pm around another
dozen had been taken, the best maybe 7lb, oh, and another bream!
Obviously the cold snap over the
weekend has encouraged them to feed and come later in the week when
the atmospherics are meant to fall; one lucky angler might just find
themselves having a red-letter day.
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