Tuesday after work I flew to Rixton clay pits with Tench in mind, but when I arrived there was no room on the car park! There were even a few cars on the road outside so I decided to pop over to Cicely Mill. By the time I had set up it was half Seven but I thought that I'd caught it just right and was on for a few fish. Unfortunately, after nailing a 1lb 6oz Crusain around 8pm I was plagued by what I assumed were bites from small fish. On a good evening the reed beds on Cicely are alive with fish but there was no movement what so ever. A small Roach a while later confirmed my suspicion's and by the time I packed up it was so cold my fingers had packed up and I couldn't get in the van! I wasn't a happy camper, but I cannot complain catching such a nice Cruey on a school nite!
Tonite looked better, we had more cloud cover and it was still really warm, so I managed to get out of work handy and on Rixton before the crowd showed up. I had cracking sport from 10 or so skimmer Bream to 1lb, I could have had many more I'm sure but I refuse to drop below a 5lb hooklength and a size 16 on Rixton because those Tench can show up at anytime, I've had them in the middle of January! Its a good job I didn't as this cracker showed up about 9.20pm. I thought I'd come close to beating that PB, the fish was huge, a good 7lber I thought, but the scales only went round to 6lb dead. I felt a little deflated at first but when I picked her up to return her back to the water and realised what a magnificent fish she was, it was smiles all round! She was all spawned out so a couple of weeks ago she could well of shook that PB.
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