18 November 2012, River Wey (Godalming AS)

On the River Wey this week - and before you ask, yes I do own a few stick floats and traditional wagglers (as well as hundreds of method feeders and pellet wagglers)!

River Wey, Godalming

I drew a nice looking peg in the Upper Common Meadow today, and despite a fairly hard frost I actually fancied it for a few fish.

The 0.4 gram Drennan alloy stick float I used today

In fact I started-off quite well (a decent run of dace and roach on the stick float with maggot) and after 90 minutes I was starting to think that heavily stocked commercials aren't the answer - then it went completely dead and I never had another bite all match!



The view from my peg as I looked upstream

In the end I weighed 1-5-0 (which was only good enough for fourth in section) and as a tramped back to the car I couldn't help day dreaming of fishing the long pole shallow for big carp on a warm summer's day!!!

04 November 2012, Broadwater (Godalming AS)

What a match - torrential rain prior to the draw very nearly saw it called-off and we were dogged by heavy showers and a biting wind throughout.

Broadwater, Godalming

To cut a long story short I caught one roach on a small 20g Kamasan Black Cap maggot feeder and a Preston hook-to-nylon that Bagger won in a White Acres rover back in September. It was very welcome and for the record weighed exactly 6 ounces!!!

Some of the terminal tackle used today

I actually did quite well on the day as 26 out of 32 blanked, and that single bite was enough for our team of four to come second on the day despite starting with only 3 anglers, finishing with 2 and ending-up with only one fish between us!

As the saying goes - if you can't be good, be lucky!!!