Fishing trip. Wanted to go back to Kelhead but only selling tickets at Hoddam Estate, so went to Brooms unequipped for carp.
Turned out not badly. Fished swim next to channel on square and soon found about 10 perch on maggot, then roach took over for another 10 small fish followed by a skimmer of about 1.5 lb.
Wind came on and fishing deteriorated for a couple of hours, then caught another five fish (including one perch, one skimmer) before it went off again. Chanced three hair rigged bits of sweetcorn in the evening and managed to land one resulting common carp of about 3.5 lb, which however went all over the place on the light tackle. Got a couple more bites before packing up but did not connect.
Sure today that I was getting shot bites of roach and got but couldn't connect bites on hempseed - just one fish on hemp and maggot. Meanwhile one or two butterflies even showed including the first orange tip.
In the garden there are definitely sparrow nestlings in the nesting box which sparrows have been tending for several weeks. On Monday, suspected a whitethroat in the hedgerow on Oakfield Brae.
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