{"id":3977,"date":"2020-03-31T23:39:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2020-03-31T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:39:13","slug":"fun-before-the-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=3977","title":{"rendered":"Fun Before The Lockdown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hope you like these photos from my very last coaching session for the foreseeable time.<\/p>\n

A week before the country was put on lockdown I met up with Stu and Chris at Decoy Lakes.\u00a0A day’s pole and feeder fishing was the plan, so we settled on a couple of nice swims on Willow. Stu wanted a session on the pole and his dad Chris was going to have a nice day on the tip to celebrate his birthday.<\/p>\n

Kicking off on a white popup, Chris was into a fish before Stu had even finished plumbing up! Fully expecting a carp we were all surprised to see a stunning barbel hit the net. If he never had another bite all day Chris was already made up with that cracking fish!<\/p>\n

Stu kicked off on the short pole with soft pellets and was instantly into decent F1s. He must have had 10 in as many chucks along with a nice ghost carp that was a bit camera shy. The pair couldn’t have asked for a better start.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chris had now swapped to a small Method Feeder and was having plenty of action from carp, F1s and even more of those lovely barbel. He even had a couple right under his feet. A change to one of my Matrix Open Alloy Feeders also worked well and a natural coloured wafter seemed best on the day.<\/p>\n

Swapping to the long pole saw Stu get another run of fish, plus a barbel or two of his own. The deep margins to his left then came into play and corn was the favoured bait. Not as many proper carp down there as I hoped, but lots and lots of F1s and a few late barbel.<\/p>\n

The pair caught loads and hopefully learnt a thing or two along the way. A big thanks to Decoy Lakes for having us. It’s a fantastic venue and always worth the trip. I thoroughly enjoyed the day and it was a nice session to end on before the country came to an abrupt halt.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all the fisheries and anglers I’ve worked with so far this year. I pray we can all get through this and resume fishing as soon as possible. Until then, stay safe and well everybody!<\/p>\n\n\t\t