Three mad men go fishing.

With the lake frozen over again and the weather forcast predicting -2 degrees and snow John, Paul and myself must of been totally crazy to attempt fishing in such difficult conditions.

John had got the areators running so there were two areas of open water and we decided to fish pegpegs 31, 30 , and 28 not too far from the tea earn.

The story of our 4 hours fishing was John was in to a good stamp of roach straight away fishing single and double maggots fished over groundbait at both 4 and 10 metres and even managed to catch a 4lb bream and lost a couple as well. John weight was 11-12 which apart fron the bream was all roach and it made up for his DNW last Sunday during the pairs match ( well done John ).

As for me I fished the majority of the day fishing long on the deck using 2 and 3 maggots again getting plenty of bites but as I was using the wrong elastic I bumped far too many roach and even bumped two carp for good measure and in the end weighed 4-12. Fishing in Pauls swim was much slower but he still managed to catch roach and perch and he tipped back an estimated 3-08.

It was an enjoyable few hours down the lake but really cold and we agreed if we had got some fresh live red maggots we would of caught a lot more as the maggots today were frozen and motionless.

I was not asleep I promise.

Thanks for reading John, Simon and Eddie.