Wednesday 5th September

On the basis of a dry couple of days and a good weather forecast, decided to give the Mill Loch a try to see if I could catch a bream.  Still most parts on North bank inaccessible without platform so ended

Nice Bream

up fishing in the path swim next to two blokes from Yorkshire who had put a lot of bait in but seemed to be fishing a long way out.

Pretty soon started catching small roach on glugged sweetcorn but bites dried up during the afternoon despite liners.  Eventually got an eel of about 2.5 lb on worm.  After Yorkshire blokes packed up (having not bagged up) had a good fish on the corn rod but snapped off as trace was only 2lb.  Just as sun went down got another on the same rod and landed it.  About 18” long so probably 4.5lb. Shortly after got another skimmer on the other rod on corn.  Hung on for a bit as dusk fell but no further bites. Since the objective was simply to catch a bream at a location I've never had one from before, I was well pleased.  Also a lovely day - moderate sunshine in my face all day - in spite of a wasp sting while reaching for biscuits and the collapse of yet another fishing chair.