Date fished 4/5/2026
9am until 12.30pm
An unexplained but very painful wrist, thumb and forearm injury had me sporting specialist equipment. Would it impact my fishing?
After a leisurely morning, I headed to Tilcon. It had been red hot earlier in the week, but much cooler and wet yesterday.
I just brought the waggler rod and a few different baits. I wanted to catch on 'summery' baits like sweetcorn in the hope it would make me forget about the bad winter fishing I had. I also wanted to try a new bait.
I have been watching lots of YouTube recently and not just fishing either! And whilst I tell the kids to stop watching such nonsense, I am totally addicted to Geowizard and Jetlag the game. Check them out!
Now, they do some cool things and challenges. I wasn't going to go so far, but decided that I could only use tackle from my dad's old box. I brought mine too, but left it in the car, I'm not crazy!!
I tackled up and was soon fishing. The wrist was doing OK and bites started. I missed a few but with regular feeding, I could see the ide cruising just under the surface. They are not hard to catch and soon I had a few to corn and maggot.
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| As long as my non injured forearm! |
I had another toy with me, inspired by watching Snagged bro on YouTube. I told you I am addicted!!
It actually ended on three but I missed a fair few bites, bumped off some fish and even lost a good bream at the net due to wrist failure!
It was a good few hours on the lake, which was packed. Most anglers I have seen fishing on it, which is great to see. I didn't manage to catch on the new bait but am sure it won't be long and I will have the bream eating out of my 'splint less' hand!!
Decent size Ide. I bet they put up a bit of a struggle, they generally do. Surely Robin Red is a winter/Xmas bait. 😀 Strawberry would be summery.
ReplyDeleteGood point. I will get picking!
DeleteIf Ide grew big, not sure I would attempt it with a dodgy wrist, they really do put up a scrap.
Like it - can’t let a little injury stop the fishing - lovely ide!
ReplyDeleteThanks Brian. Not quite sure if it was cold, rainy and winter I still would of gone out. Perfect for a sunny bank Holiday though.
DeleteSomewhere that has a decent Ide stock? They are so rare down south, wish there was more places down here that stocked them.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I hope have a speedy recovery, can never let an injury get in the way of hauling some ass!
* I hope you have, bloody keyboard!
ReplyDeleteThanks James, I think!!! I will get back to "hauling Ass". Will swap some ide for your specimen bream, multiple cats and all the barbel in the small river!! Lets enjoy this warmer weather.
ReplyDeleteHorses for courses! Down here we are blessed with some incredible fishing but its a lot more expensive and the population of anglers after just a few specimen fish is pretty substantial, that said it sorts the wheat from the chaff and if I didn't go losing the lumps when I finally come in contact with them I'd be in a lot better position!
DeleteNot sure I'll ever succumb to a fish counter.......
ReplyDeleteWas definitely more a novelty. If I cant remember "three" I guess I should not be fishing!!! 😂
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