September By The Staithe At Horning
September started at Woodrow's on the Earl of Harrington ticket, with a 9½', Billy Lane swing-tip rod, a Mitchell 300 reel, and sweetcorn and luncheon meat for bait.
It was a lovely sunny day, one of those hazy, late summer days. I baited up and cast just off a lily bed to my right, and waited. Fish were topping and jumping all over the lake, and I had fish in my swim.
The angler on the next peg showed me pictures of fish he'd caught the week before. Today, he was catching Roach, Perch and Skimmers on float-fished red maggots. After fetching his brand new 11' float rod and extolling its virtues, he went back to his catching. I float-fished, fished on the surface, cast, recast and waited, but nothing was interested in my bait. Suffice to say, I blanked.
September is when we usually go on to Norfolk for a fishing holiday, as the schools have gone back and it's much quieter. The video below is of our stay in Horning.
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