This is most definitely my last night out before our holiday, thanks to all for letting me out for 24 hrs.

The weather is a far cry from my last trip and to be honest, it has been quite a pleasurable afternoon and evening so far.

With the wind not doing much, other than changing direction all over the place, and with plenty of sunshine, I thought that the best option would be one of the point swims.  Thus, giving me access to a lot of open water and some nice tree lined margins.

And a island directly in front of me.

With one rod wad under the right hand side with a few spombs of poloni boilies (I was happy with that rod).

I was not sure weather to stick the other rod to the left of the island, or risk a bait along the margins for the night.

I was a bit surprised that by the time I got my head down, I had only had a couple of tench.

20lb 7oz common

However, I was very pleased to see this nice fish in the net sometime after midnight.

With a recast back along the margins, needless to say I was fishing about 6 ft off and only about 8 ft along from my swim and had the rod butts just a few feet away.  I was happy that there was a good chance the fish would never make the snags before I was in control of it.  Always safety of the fish should come first when snag fishing,

With yet more bream between midnight and 0200 hrs, all went quiet and I woke up to a very hot summers day.

As I sit roasting in the door of my bivvy, I am thinking that some floating fishing may be in order for a couple of hours.  I don’t need to be home until this afternoon and it’s 0830 at the moment, I will have a brew and a bit to eat and see how it pan’s out.

At around 1100, I decided that it would be best to head home.

Till next
Richard