Temperatures of -4 degrees Celsius in the car on the way to the venue meant only one thing - the first ice of the season!
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| A frozen Harris Lake at Marsh Farm |
As everybody else set about breaking the ice in their pegs with ice breakers I hatched a cunning plan - to fish a waggler OVER the ice into the patch of clear water next to the island.
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| A nice ice free patch of water next to the island - surely it had to be full of fish? |
My thinking was simple - why scare away all of the fish in your peg by smashing the ice when you can fish in an area that must be a lot warmer than the rest of the lake (as it wasn't frozen over)? On paper a great theory but one that was shot down in flames as I never had a bite all day!
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| No, they are not my hands! |
In all fairness 26 out of the 32 competitors today blanked - including 2 whole sections, and in one of the other sections only one angler caught! (Don't you just love winter fishing?)
The other 5 that caught were sat in a row to my left - in what is normally the worst part of the lake and the area that everybody wants to avoid at the draw!
Those that caught today all caught after smashing the ice and feeding joker - though plenty of people fed it today and didn't catch, and those that did catch caught on pinkie or caster (as opposed to with joker or bloodworm on the hook).
Let's hope next week is better!!!
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