Napton Reservoir was top of my list of early season venues, the hope being that I could catch a decent bream or two before the tench, the dominant species, wake up properly and limit the options of catching other species. In hindsight this may have been a tad ambitious.
The only two anglers on the water were fishing the hot early season pegs when Phil and I arrived at 3pm so we set out our stall on the car park bank of the big res in an area where bream used to be caught frequently. Each of us set up a pair of quivertip rods equipped with open end feeders, for hook bait we had sweetcorn, maggots and worms therefore allowing us plenty of options.
The other anglers had fished from 7am and had managed about a dozen tench each but told us that sport had slowed to a point where they hadn't had a bite for two hours, so not a great sign on a moody water like Napton but anything can happen and we made an enthusiastic start.
A couple of hours in and bite less our enthusiasm was waning though, eight rod hours and not a single twitch on the tips is a dire scenario to have to face, but we soldiered on.
Corn, worm, maggot and all conceivable cocktails failed equally for another two and a half hours of stationary tips before we pulled the plug at 7.30pm now having endured 18 rod hours of inactivity.
It seems to me that in the early part of the year if you aren't on those hot pegs, beyond the bridge in the big res, you will struggle.
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