Having touched on the subject of feeding in my previous post and how easy it is to keep the bites coming when you are catching fish, I must now report on how easy it is to get it wrong when bites are hard to come by.
Once again we were fishing at Stockton Reservoir this time occupying pegs at the far end of the lake in the mid 30's, bait was maggot and our target species was roach. As before Dad and I both fished wagglers at medium range and set off reasonably well catching some nice little roach up to about six ounces.
Within half an hour of starting the day turned noticeably cooler as the cold wind increased and our catch rate began to fall accordingly and that's where it all went wrong. Not being blessed with great patience, my in-built lets make something happen alarm sounded and rather than cut back on the feed, like a normal person would do, I upped my feed rate to a good pouchful of maggots each cast. Needless to say that was that, I limped to the end of the session picking up the occasional small roach.
Another valuable lesson learnt (until the next time !)
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