Horseshoe again! But success!

Well here I was one week later on Horseshoe.

The temperatures were up and down all week and as I arrived I didn’t feel too confident. I fished a good swim where I’ve caught before. Now as I set up I had a friend Graham call me on the phone from across the lake he was fishing for carp and I could see him in the distance.

I put out some dead maggots and hemp and it didn’t take long before first the mallards came and dived for the bait. Yes it was that shallow. I didn’t hook any of these, but as the tuffties arrived things hotted up.

There were 20 of the lovely things diving on the baits at 56 yds. Soon I had a string of the lucky ducks coming to the net. As there were so few angler’s on the lake they tended to concentrate on your bait. I thought that there were about 100 maggots in the feeder so 5 dives each of the ducks would clear me out.

So after 5 ducks later I felt sorry for them and moved swims further down the lake. But before I moved and at 5.30am I caught one very small tench in terrible condition that I saw roll over he baited area 5 minutes before it took the bait.