Its A Grueller

Good evening fellow bloggerts.

As the title of this post says, the session has now been put into the grueller category. When the number of weeks you've been fishing is greater than the total number of fish landed, its a grueller, and seen as we've landed only six carp in eight weeks it is certainly in that category. Apart from the fish count, its still enjoyable and its more than exciting knowing that there are some very big fish to be had out of this famous old lake. Its not through want of trying that we haven't had more fish, all sorts of variations in presentation, areas, depths, baits and so on have all been given a go in some favourable and not so favourable conditions and because of the length of the session, things have been tried for a few days and not a few hours but the bottom line is that there haven't been loads of fish in the south arm.

Since the last post, Paul moved up to the top of the south arm and I moved opposite him a few days later to again what looks like a very good area, and I'm sure at times it is but all its produced is a 14lb common for Jonesy and a slimey slab for myself. The north arm has eventually got slightly less manic than it normally is so the plan is to move in there tomorrow and try to get the old averages up. From what we've heard its producing a fish per day, which isn't a lot between all the anglers in there but we are sure that there are more fish up there than in the south.

The south arm itself is virtually devoid of carpers apart from myself and the Poisoned One so its been a peaceful period in that respect but both of us will be glad to see the back of the south arm road which, if you're fishing on that side of the arm, can be like some sort of interrogation technique, from 5am up to midnight its constant traffic and something we weren't expecting before arriving at Cassien. As you can see from the photo of the swim, and those of you that have been here will know, the lake is set in wonderful surroundings but some things here can be testing and eight weeks of that south arm road is certainly that. Saying that, we'll probably end up next to the bridge or one of the swims near to the road in the west arm, you really need to be half way up the north arm to escape it completely.

The weather has been changing all the time recently, we've had snow, sun, rain, lots of rain, cold days and not so cold nights, so we've had the lot in the last ten days or so although the levels in the lake aren't changing that much from day to day and if anything the water temperature has risen ever so slightly.

See you soon