Nice Time At A New Venue

Pretty good weather and fishing last weekend. Almost springlike! On Saturday my good friend Dave very kindly invited me to fish a little match at Swan Farm Fishery in Leicestershire as his guest. A new venue for me and I was really impressed with how nice and well looked after it was.

It was a silvers match with carp counting as 8oz (they’re all 2lb+). I quite like that format as it still rewards you for getting them in on light tackle. I drew peg 11, which is a narrow channel between two bowls and it looked nice with a slight tinge. I managed six chunky mirrors late on, plus 24lb of silvers, for a 27lb total. Mostly chunky ide, plus little roach, gudgeon (first fish!), baby chub, skimmers and a 2lb bream.

My peg was about 13m wide and 4ft deep and I’ve worked a couple of short and a couple of long lines with maggots and pinkies to keep bites coming. Great fishing for February and enough to win. Not been 100% myself all week, so it was just nice to get some bites on a new venue and fish with some really friendly guys. Everyone there said it had fished below par after the previous night’s rain, so it’s clearly got loads of potential for even better sport.

Thanks Dave and crew for the invite!