Cold and wet

It was raining most of the day today, a sort of cold persistent drizzle. When it had virtually stopped, I headed out for a couple of hours down to Neatishead staithe but it still felt cold and damp, what they would describe as 'dreich' in Scotland. I thought I would give the end of the staithe a go this time, nearest the car park. It is a bit shallower there, a place where the smaller fish tend congregate.

Float fishing with a size 16 hook and a double red maggot (the same maggots that I have had for several weeks - they have been keeping well in the cold shed) I was getting regular bites and pulling out small roach, one after the another. I was down here on the 7th Feb and caught this nice bream at about 4.30pm:-

This fish is 12 inches in length and is probably a pound in weight or maybe more. I also had this 8 inch roach on the same day:-

I also think that the staithe is a hotspot for Ruffe, as we are always catching them. This was a nice specimen:-

It looks sad with those big eyes. They have quite a pretty bluish iridescence. I also came down here on the 15th February and caught this slightly smaller bream:-

What a pleasant day that was, with plenty of warmish sunshine, a real harbinger of spring. This fish was just 8.5 inches, but a nice fish to catch.

Back to today, I didn't really catch much else to speak of. However, there was a couple that were pike fishing at the mouth of the staithe and after much effort did pull out a 16.5 pounder. What a thickset fish this was!

All text and pictures copyright Duncan Hale-Sutton 2018.