September by the Staithe
- theretroangler
- Oct 11, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 13
September didn't start as well as August finished. I went to Woodrow's on the Earl of Harrington ticket, with a 9½ foot, Billy Lane swing-tip rod and Mitchell 300 reel, along with 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 piscator 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. And, after fetching his brand new 11-foot 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. But it was a nice day to blank!
September is when we tend to go on holiday for a week, as the schools have gone back and it's much quieter.
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