Silver Bream - Phew, what a...

Bummer! The weather, the weather, the flipping British weather! Just last Friday night I was sitting at a pit freezing my nads off dressed in full winter gear, seriously, the self-same apparel I wear when fishing in sub-zero temperatures, and this evening I'm going back to the same pit dressed in t-shirt and shorts. Crazy. 

Blogger has ground to a halt. Blogs are up and then they are down, and editing a post, like this one, is all but impossible. Perhaps the weather affects Blogger's plumbing too?

It certainly has affected the canal fish, because they really don't like abrupt change. Just for a brief time I caught what I intended to, and had a lovely brace of silvers. The next day I went back and had one more, but only a small one of ten ounces, a hen really heavy in the chest but less so in the belly and not quite ready yet, so, I then thought that more would come along in the next week. I couldn't have been more wronger. None have come, not one, and no tench, roach or rudd either. AlI I've had is a few bream. A very few.

They finished spawning at the silver bream spot on Saturday last, and that has always been the word go as far as the silvers are concerned, because they spawn a little later, and two or three weeks seems about right. Last two years that period after the bream have done their thing has been my opening, because the bream go off the feed, and the silvers come on. Not so this year, the hot weather has put paid to that!

Bream eggs clinging to tree roots

I went over the other side of the canal to retrieve a float and whilst there had a look at the tree roots that the bream have been spawning upon. I was surprised that there were any eggs left to see, given the attention they have received from the hungry mouths of both fish and fowl, but plenty had survived to hatch out. 

More bronze bream then...

Shame they never grow interesting in this canal.

Hen Silver Bream. 

Oddly, the hot weather brought spawning on at other sites, sites that are ordinarily inactive and some that I'd never known about before. I've noted them, and will fish them in turn when the spawning stops in hope of catching silvers elsewhere. That would be nice...

The roach have been lolling about in the top foot of water soaking up the sun. I came across a small but very interesting cache of them that will gain my attention too in the coming months as some were rather large! They'll still be there, I'll guarantee it.

Off to Tusses Tackle then, for maggots and sunblock. 

Pit to go to, tench to catch...




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