fishing on a cold and snowy day

 

Sunday 20th January 2013

plans were mad to go fishing on Sunday 20/1/13 so we left home on a cold snowy morning it must have been about -3 with snow still laying on the ground and still the odd fine snow flake falling.So when had loaded the van we headed off to pick some one else up before we left for the pond . With thick snow and ice on the ground we took it easy all the roads were snow and ice free until we got about a mile away from the pond and then it started to get a
bit slippery we parked in a gate way as there was no chance we could get down tho the pond to park in the car park as the steep slope was covered in snow and ice a very slippery.So on to the fishing we made our way down through the snow and ice that was laying on the slope and walked on to the right hand side of the pond were we decided to fish the water was very clear and not normal for the pond as it is always coloured in the Summer and right through the winter for as long as i been fishing it and can remember.We set up and started fishing at 10am i waited quite a while for my first bite on the pole using paste over pellet or using ringers soft hooker pellet size 6mm.After very little interest the pole at 11 and a half meters i then decided to set up the feeder rodi started off using a 15grm cage feeder at mid range with pellet worm or corn fished over a bed of ground bait and micro pellet.Started getting taps on the tip then had 2 wrap round which ended with 2 carp after fishing the feeder for a bit longer i then decided to go bk on the pole after i had been topping the bait up on the pole line after putting the pole bk out and waiting about 5 Min's for a bite i hooked into a carp of around 3-4lb after taking my time to play it back in to the bank i reached for the net and before i could net it it slipped the hook i was gutted .I then went back on the feeder rod and had one more carp on it after that we then decided to pack up with snow still falling and temps being below -1 all day after packing up we weighed in as the three of us put £3 each in for the winner

1st place was Richard with 35lb9oz

2rd place was me with 9lb8oz

3 place was Wayne with 6lb10oz

we headed bk up the steep snowy slope and loaded the gear back into  the van and header home through the icy and snow we wont be going back to west pit farm at uplowman after the owner spoke to us like we were a bit of shit he was a total ass any way i will be doing a lot more match blogs in the coming weeks so check them out until next time

 

tight lines

 

lee