icy

i fished a local lake on saturday for 3 hours with a pole
all the water had ice on apart from about 20 inches from the bank so i tried the pole & caught four fish in 3 hours on red maggot
i really wanted to fish with the feeder but i thought i had better not

did anyone else have tough times at weekend

[fozzie]

Oh yes, as i posted on another thread. Tried the canal which was covered mostly in ice. Tried finding shade parts where the surface was warmer. Not one bite all day.

I did though manage to get a photograph of a mink running around on the ice, that was pretty cool.

[asoftuk]

I went sunday with 2 friends the ice was over 15mm thick in places. We used a lawn rake on a rope to clear a decent sized area in the ice before we started fishing. Had plenty of line bites and a few short runs on several of the rods, nothing much happened to speak of only a few minor fish on the bank.

Not a nibble I was fishing with loads of baits but nothing!!

Im looking at getting a new pole i have looked at the MAVER DEPLOY 13M,
WATCHINGMaver Ascension Pole - 14.5M and the MAVER COMPETITION 101 13M. i can get them all for around the £200-£300 mark and wounded if anyone could give me advice on what pole to get?

[davebell]

i went monday with a mate, we tried one lake but completely frozen, tried another which had ice but was fishable, nothing, so i deceided to fish the river, had 2 chubb to 2lb so i was happy with that, wish i'd tried river earlier in the day lol

great to get 2 chub well done....
i think the river is better at the moment with no ice on surface..

mind you it always beats house work going fishing whatever the weather