Cringleford Bridge nr Eaton.

Lovely day. I went exploring in the car for a few hours Chub fishing. Found a great spot, looks like its been heavily fished though. There was too much litter lying around. I'll take a bin bag down next time and clear it up a bit. Fished with pellets. I baited around 5 swims, and then methodically fished them. Had a few knocks and missed a few fish. The day ended fine with a 1lb-ish Chub taken from under a weedly snag. Took straight away within 3/4 seconds of the bait settling. Lovely bend in the rod, it felt really good. I played it on the reel as the swim was very tight as there were low overhanging trees. I was happy to get it in the net.



















Nice venue. It is meant to hold good Pike, Tench, Roach, Chub, Perch and Carp.

Water was slightly coloured, nice gullies to explore and loads of tree overhangs.

I never fished it but the weir looks good...Barbel??? (probably not)

Ranworth Broad - Night Fishing

Made a quick decision to go night fishing at Ranworth Broad. Used bread mash, hemp, sweetcorn and pellet groundbait. I fished 2 sweetcorn on a 12 hook, 5lb ML, 2.4lb HL.

I wanted to have some proper practice at feeder fishing. I wanted to find my method and practice accurate casting. After setting up and preparing the groundbait, I cast a few times to get the feel of the feeder. I then filled the feeder and cast, lining up on a tree on the skyline. The line was then clipped and I reeled in, baited up and casted in again. I did this about 6 times to get some groundbait on the floor. I then baited the hook and feeder and cast to my target again. I felt my confidence build doing this. No bites came for around 2 hours, then they started coming every few minutes. Most of these were linebites, but to pull fish into my area boosted my confidence. I left shortly after as a freezing fog trawled in and I froze.

Lots of skills gained and lessons learned for future feeder sessions.

This venue feels like it will really produce in a few months.

New Mills - River Wensum

Decided to have a quick fish at New Mills on the River Wnsum in Norwich. This popular venue is just behind where I work, so I thought I would check it out. I fished for about 1.5 hours and the only bites I got were from babywipes and a rotten shirt. Not a pleasant experience really, I hope I was there on a "bad" day. I fished very fine, 2lb line, and 18 hook with magots...nothing!!!!! I'll try again when it warms up a bit.

Nicks Pond - Private Venue

Well what can I say. I was lucky enough to be offered an opportunity to fish a pivately stocked gravel pit near Norwich. My mate Nick has stocked his little 1/2 acre pond for years. Mirror, Common and Crucian have gone in. Perch, Roach, Bream and Rudd too. Nick said he had lost something BIG a couple of times and reckoned that it must have been a big carp. Started fishing in about 3ft of water around 3 rod lengths out directly in front of me. I was straight into the small stuff, Roach and Rudd. I decided to constantly rain maggots for the duration, hopefully feeding off the smaller stuff, getting some bait on the pond floor and bring some bigger fish in. After an hour my bait started to get through the top layers onto the floor and I missed a bite from something a bit more substantial. The plan seemed to be working and I constantly rained maggots over the swim. My bait was getting through more frequently now, I felt I had fed a lot of the smaller stuff off and bigger stamp Roach and Rudd were taking the bait. About 45 minutes before the session was due to end, I latched into something solid which turned out to be a beautiful condition 8lb Mirror male (never caught before), I quickly removed to 16 barbless from its mouth and returned him back to the water. Needless to say I was very happy as I was already perfectly content with some great Roach and Rudd fishing. The raining continued and 10 minutes later I was into another carp, this time a 4lb female Mirror. This fish, similar to the first had never been caught before and was in great condition.

Eventually it was time to go, I decided to catch one last Rudd, as I must of caught at least 50 over the course of 2.5 hours. So, after putting him back I started to pack away, whilst Nick cast into my swim. A few minutes later, his float dissappeared, he struck and reeled in the smallest Mirror Carp I have ever seen. It was around 4/5 inces long. Proof that the adult Mirrors had spawned last year or the year before. We decided between us that this fish was the best of the day!

Nicks Pond had proved itself to be a fine venue. I had a great time, and I'm looking forward to my next invitation.