Traveled down with Tony and had breakfast in the Bridge Inn, it wasn't too bad, shame about the bloody lifesize Santa Claus by the bar, that some little brat kept triggering and it then went through a repertoire of Xmas songs, thankfully my sanity was saved when a staff member switched it off.
A dozen hardy souls braving the foggy day, the air temperature had certainly risen, but the water was clear and very cold. Peg 33 was my reward for delving into the ping pong ball bag, a bridge peg, so should hopefully produce a fish or two. Peg 34 other side of the bridge not in as the platform has collapsed, not sure that was a good thing, as the fish had a area I couldn't get to, to back off into.
My view for the day was traveling companion Mr Rixon
4 topkits, a rig to dob bread across, another for down on the 2nd shelf about 3' deep and two rigs to fish full depth. Started dobbing bread and that was totally fruitless, tried all along the 2nd shelf, from just touching bottom, to mid depth. Once that had proved to be a non starter, I fed a few micros and maggots by the bridge at full depth and a few up on the 2nd shelf, the a line in open water, finally a few casters short by the bridge.
Not long after dropping in on the full depth line by the bridge I had a fish on, but not for too long, I wasn't convinced it was fouled, but hard to tell. Shortly after, another hooked and lost, this did feel foul hooked, A look round the other lines produced nothing, back by the bridge at depth and a missed bite, I was hopeful of a few fish, as there was at least some indications. Next drop in a 5lber fell for double maggot, next drop in a small F1 and that was it, not another bite from this line the rest of the day. About an hour later I had a bite out of the blue on the 2nd shelf and a chunky F1 joined the other 2 fish in the net.
Sadly the only action after that was watching the chickens eating my bait that the fish resolutely refused to touch.....
As I had no further indications, I can only assume the fish did back off under the bridge, I tried down to the pallet of 32, again nothing. A tough day, not too surprising given the water clarity and I tipped my 3 fish back to save the scalesman a job.
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