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After a slow start as I slept in till 7.15am, yes I know, but that is late for me, I decided I might wet a line. Fairly windless day it seemed so I thought I'd give float fishing a go on my new water.
I picked up a Mitchell 300a, a Shimano perfection 3500 and a centrepin. Rod wise I selected my Darent valley Specialist, lovely little Avon rod, it has a .75 test curve I believe, however is comparable to a modern version of a John Wilson Avon at 1.25 test curve but is a lot lighter and slimmer. A joy to use either with Leger or float. I also picked up my new Warwickshire Avon retro fishing rod from Roger Surgay's tackle exchange. Haven't used it yet so was hoping to put a bend in it today.
So I got to water and found several regulars in place with the pike rods all reporting fish picking baits up but dropping them with no fish on the bank yet, this was about 9.30am.
I selected a likely swim away from the others, set up two float rods, one using a waggler to probe the swim, another laying on.
An hour and a half passed and no luck, so walked further along and found a reedy bay. There seemed to be small silver fish activity so thought it was worth a punt so moved further down.

Plenty of room in this swim to fully practice the Nottingham cast, I changed the waggler to a perch bobber really just to up the weight to let me practice as I'm new to centrepins. I switched the other rod over to a cage feeder and fished 2mm pellets in it with various baits on the hook from jellets to pop up fake maggots. The float rod did nothing again. However, this strange yellow thing appeared in the sky over head, I believe it's called the sun locally, and the feeder rod burst into life with bangs and knocks as the fish were pounding on the feeder. Four hours of this and not one take or proper bite. Very frustrating. A visit by the chap who runs the site said the pikers had all but packed up with five fish on the bank for the days efforts, and carp showing.
I left with nothing at 2.30pm, it was so warm though so I don't know if this and air pressure have caused a lull. I also had a poor selection of bait in all honesty. Maggot is apparently king on this water for coarse fishing and I only had dead ones.
I went home and flew Chico for an hour instead! He enjoyed himself!