Friday Afternoon

Had a quick session at the local commercial on Friday afternoon.

The swims that i wanted to fish were already taken so had to try another. In the end i chose a swim at the far end of the lake. Wind was in my face, bit overcast and the surface was very choppy. Great, i thought, classic bream conditions. I was very wrong!

Fished the deepest part, about mid way to the island on long pole, short line. Depth about 5 ft. Cupped in some Black Magik Fine groundbait and a handful of maggots. Also fed the margin to my right at about 18" to 2ft deep with maggot.

Put in and was straight into bits. Roach and Rudd. lovely. As my Grandad used to say 'little'uns bring big'uns', so continued with the far deep swim despite the wind. Kept getting bits until i finally hooked into a small carp about 3lb. landed then straight back into the bits. Where were the bream? This lake usually produces after about an hour so i was puzzled. Perfect conditions so where were they?

Decided to give the swim a rest and switched to the margin swim. Fished a 3m whip with flick tip, single red maggot. Straight into the roach and small perch. Nice respite from the wind, as i turned up my collar and turned sideways. Kept feeding a pinch of maggot every minute or so, and the little'uns kept coming. Then hooked into something much bigger. Fear struck as i was on the 3m whip on 1lb bottom, sized 20's hook. Just couldn't hold it and the hook pulled out. So back to the maggot feeding and catching the small roach. Then again hooked a 'big'un'. Hooked pulled again. Bear in mind that this lake is a silvers lake so the carp only run to about 4-5lb, and its mostly roach, rudd, crucians and bream in here.

Frustrated i went back to the far swim to see if the bream were feeding. nothing. the swim was dead!

I'd had enough of the wind by now (about 5.30pm) so started to pack up. I'd paid my money though so rather than leave i set up a rod with a small waggler and jumped over to the carp lake behind me. fed the remaining groundbait next to the lillies and went to get my kit. got back and the water was a swirl of silt where the carp were feeding. dropped in and within a minute was into the first of 12 small carp. Biggest i had was a Ghost carp about 5lb. Had great fun for about an hour and half, but was still frustrated that the bream on the other lake had not shown. Light started to dim so packed up.

Walking back to the car i passed my first swim. Argh! the water was fizzing with bream bubbles over the area that i had been feeding all afternoon.

Bream...I will get my revenge...oh yes. next time! he he.

90lb Bream on River Trent

Had a fantastic short session on the Trent a couple of weeks back.

Arrived at 6am in muggy, dull weather. Set up the feeder rod and balled in about 12 jaffa sized balls of groundbait laced with sweetcorn.

The mix consisted of 33% Big Bream Original, 33% River and 33% mole hill soil that was behind my swim. After riddling the mix was light and fluffy, but held together well, and with the addition of the mole hill soil also had some extra weight to get it to the bottom before breaking up.

Nothing much happened for the first 2 hours. Chris who i was fishing with had had a couple of bream to about 6lb. then i had one about 5lb, but the sport was very sporadic. Bites were very slow.

Then about 10am my tip bent round like lightning and i was into the first of what was to become a big haul for a short session.

Fishing section of lobworm on the hook and using a heavy cage feeder to keep the groundbait topped up, no sooner had i set the tip when it bent round again.

In all i had 90lb of bream, all between 5lb and 8lb. ( we weighed the biggest and it was just over 8lb).

Strange thing was that Chris in the next swim, fishing virtually the same bit of water struggled to get 6 fish over the session, yet only yards downstream i was hitting the shoal on every cast.

I ran out of lobworm about half way through and had to find another bait quickly. luckily i had soaked some 8mm coarse pellet the night before and continued to catch the bream on the new hook bait.

Fantastic!

200lb Haul of Irish Tench - August 2010

One of our loyal customers required some groundbait for a fishing trip to Ireland.

After looking at our current range he decided to take along a load of our Black Magik groundbait. Peter ordered 20kg of Black Magik hoping that it would catch a few bream on his trip. Little did he realise that it would be the tench that took a liking to the groundbait.

This week Pete contacted us and kindly sent us a few pics of his catch.

Fishing at Ballinamore, they managed to amass a 200lb haul of Tincas. The best catch of Tench we here at Blacksilver Baits have ever seen.

A massive well done to Peter.