CS Fishing

I’ve been saying it in every post since I started my page that I was going to do a post all about bait…and here it is! As I’m writing this it’s snowing outside, and although this week’s going to be on the chilly side (going down too -7 tonight) and most lakes around the country will be starting to freeze over, spring is just around the corner and the days when we have sun it’s starting to feel stronger and has a bit more heat to it. I am going to start off talking about my baiting approach for spring; my baiting changes with the seasons in order to maximise my chances of landing a few fish. I’ll also add my approach may change with the distance I have to travel to the lake - that m ay sound completely mad, but, as my current syndicate is just a minute away from my house, it makes baiting (and picking the right times to bait) very easy as I can walk around as much as I like. Picking the right times to bait at this time of year can give as big of an edge as anything el...

February Update Well after a great start to the month with that lovely 18lb mirror things really did slow up. I was getting to the lake at least one night a week as normal, but I just couldn’t seem to get onto the fish - they seemed to disappear though I think that was mainly down to the cold weather. The temperature really dropped over the course of a week or so and the fish were really affected. I spent a couple of nights fishing a few different areas of the lake using the same tactics as before - choddies or hinge stiff rigs as I was fishing the weedy swims to see if that’s where they were finding sanctuary, but nothing was happening. I lost a race to a swim one Monday which I really went to regret as one of the locals was walking around the lake earlier in the day and he had seen fish showing close in. The wind was pushing into the corner and the weather was set to get really cold that night so as this area was in the shallows and I didn’t think the fish would ...

Welcome back my blog! Its now January and not a lot has changed since the last time I was on the bank. It has been almost a week since my last session: The weather had picked up a few degrees in the last couple of days and another fish had been caught from the car park swim - seems as like a few fish seem to be held up in that area. The latest one turned the scales round to 20lb 4oz, so that’s now 3 fish within a week! I can see why though. As I’ve mentioned a few times, that swim is where the sun hits the water first in the morning, so in turn that should be the warmest part of the lake throughout the day, and that can be a huge edge this time of year. That swim was taken when I arrived and, as he had caught that fish last night, he had decided he’d be staying all day and might even do another night - so that was the car park swim out the window.   After a good few laps round I still didn’t have any idea where to go as his brother was fishing in the royal ...