Tried the wensum again today. I felt very positive after Monday. I thought that an early start would be good so headed off around 0630. I arrived at Ringland Bridge and was fishing by 0730. It was quite windy today and the water had a chop on it. I had a few bites straight away, jagged hits at the bait by Chub, trying to get the pellets out of the bands. They managed to become quite adept at this over the course of the morning. I decided to changed tack and reeled in to set up a chubber float. To my total surprise as I lifted the rod from the rest I felt a fish on the line (I had not even seen a bite), this was a small chub of around 1-3/4lbs. I continued with the plan to float fish, just off bottom, hoping that trotting through the swim would induce a quick take. This was uneventful and eventually the winds effect on the water condition rendered any float method useless, it was impossible to register a bite.
I packed up and moved into a more sheltered swim. I was hoping to catch a few roach on bread flake, but after around 40mins of being continually blasted by the wind, I could not really settle into a groove and decided to try the original spot again.
Nothing came again for the remainder of the session, and the weather grew steadily worse. So I broke everything down and went home for a nice cuppa.
Still enjoyed it though, and I didn't blank - although I claim no element of skill for hooking that Chub.
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