Thurs 14th March

In spite of the forecast its actually one of the better days of recent. Little wind which means that it at least feels warmer, bit if sunshine. lets see how it pans out a little later in the day.

The water temps is obviously very low with just little bits of ice forming in the corners of the lake but nothing that hinders fishing at all.

The fish are getting as fed up of these conditions as we are, little or no movement, little or no feeding activity, just sitting right on the bottom, sulking. Takes if they come are very tentative and slow and can be easily missed. Because of the need to be as deep as possible a sinking line literally on the bottom using boobies is a great choice. The boobies avoid you getting snagged all the time. A normal figure of eight retrieve is far too fast, it needs to be painfully slow!