Had a short session on the Wey today, very cold. Missed a few bites, very little flow and the river was well down.

Been trying for barbel on Avon and Wey but nothing yet. Not much to report really.

On the second of a two day trip to Langmans Lake (part of a complex of 4 waters), I landed this nice 7 1/2lb Bream. Langmans is the toughest water with specimen fish like Carp, Pike, Catfish and of course Bream. Its my first fish ever from this Lake and its a resonable size, not the biggest by far but a start none the less. It was taken on homemade boilie with a float ledger rig. You can just make out the "loc-slide" float in the background.

Caught a nice Chub of around 4 lb. Lost another one as it came to the surface, also lost another just before that but more of a missed bite than a fish really.
Raining on and off but light showers.

Had our annual two days to kick off the new season in Spring. Dad had loadsa bream, I was going for Tench, but only managed a bream on the first day.

On the second day we fished another lake at the complex, I stuck to my guns and tried for the bream, despite Dad pulling Bream out every few minutes! I was rewarded with a 5lb Tench just as I was thinking of switching to corn.

The Bream was on spicy shrimp and the Tench was on my homemade fishmeal based boilies. I do have a photo but I need to scan it in, however I do now carry a digi cam for fishing!!!

February 2006:- Had a day on Ibsley, very low water levels, no bits. All in all 2005 was the worst season ever on the Avon/Stour but one of the best on the Wey.

Caught nothing, no bites nothing. Dad also had nothing, water levels were critical with almost no flow on the Stour.