My year has got off to a good start, a couple of days on a new Roach water saw me bank another fish over the pound barrier of 1lb 3oz. It's another water stuffed full of Roach, but the Carp anglers on there assure me that it does contain some very good fish, almost certainly over 2lb...
The fish I had was landed on feeder and mini boilie, this may well be the way forward on this water instead of pole tactics, as the hordes of tiny 'eyes and tails' make it very hard work indeed, as I found out yesterday, and as it's a little way from my home I cannot introduce bait regularly enough to feed them off nor guarantee to get the swim I want as I could with the other water which is just a few hundred yards from where I live.
The water also contains specimen Perch along with the other lakes on the complex, and it is these that have captured my interest along with the Roach, so I have been 'mixing it up' a bit in the last few sessions with some good results. Last week My son and I had upwards of twenty Perch in two days, from other lakes on the complex, with me taking 8 or 9 over two pounds, to 2lb 10oz, none of the others were less than a pound and a half...and yesterday I had fish of exactly 3lb's and 2lb 14oz from the 'new' water. This brings my total of 3lb plus Perch to 4 now, so I'm definitely looking towards a 4lb'er as my next target.
1lb 3oz Roach
3lb Perch
