First time fishing in a while, and yes i was back to cudmore ... the previous day was very cold and a hailstorm ... so i knew that the days fishing was to be hard. I arrived at cudmore at 8am and paid. Even got a free ticket as a present from good old cyril !
Decided to fish drumble as it always produces for me. I chose a peg with a tree to my right which is sunkinto the lake a bit, and an island ahead of me. Looking at the swim for a good 10 minutes or so showed a few small fishing surface and a smallstream of bubbles. Perfect i thought! Fish already here !
Setting up a waggler rod, i looked at the island again ... very snaggy indeed, and with a 2bb float i could only just reach the island. Great! less chance of snagging. Fishing with 4ibs mono to a 2ibs hookling and size 20 mustad maggot hook with a maggot as bait i casted towards the island.
I catapulted 5 maggots every minuted around my float untill i received signs of fishing feeding and my sign was a bite. After this decided to send out 10 maggots per 2 fish. It seemed all well as i must have managed to land a whole shoal of perch (i ended up with about 27 i think)! I have a fear of touching perch and to see that every 1 of them needed disgorging was horrific. Still, a fish is a fish and it needed to be done. After about 3 hours of fishing the waggle i decided to cast to some deeper water with a maggot eeder in the hopes of some carp and chub.
I set up a maggot feeder rod with 5ibsline to 4ibs hooklink and a size 18 mustad maggot hook. Casting to a spot which i knew was around 7 foot deep i clipped up and waited for my 1st bit of action. 10 mins for my 1st fish and hurrah! Chub. Up untill 3.30pm when i packed up i was into chub. action was slow but enough to kep me warm. I think i ended up with around 15ibs of fish, 5ibs behind the section winner of brewsters and i spent alot of time talking to himwhilst i was ona tea break
not bad for a december day.