British Monsoon

Because of commitments I didn't get onto my local lake until a bit later than usual so I decided to leave my carp gear at home and head out in search of some big perch. I decided to approach the job in hand with a float rod fishing with worm and a ledger rod with ultra light bobbins trialling half a frozen sandeel as bait. The ledger rod went out first and as I was tackling up my float rod I had a savage take which was dropped before I could reach it which is a shame because it was never repeated. I decided to leave my gear under my brolly at the top of the slope as I was fishing very close to the bank, this would have been fine if it wasn't raining. This wasn't ordinary rain this was torrential! On the plus side at least it was warm. I was fishing a worm hookbait slightly over depth under a waggler and feeding with maggots which paid off from the beginning. The perch came thick and fast but not the specimens I know live in the water but the biggest reached about 4oz. To make things a little more interesting a few small carp, tench and my very first crucian carp came to the net. All in all it was a very pleasant evening and one I aim to repeat before the end of the summer.