Tuesday 29th July

Fishing session on Brooms peg 15.  Strange day.  Caught a small common first cast on legered prawn, then nothing.  Went into margin on short pole from 4.30 but fewer fish moving through. Could not get proper bites on meat and had feeling they were sucking the bait to test it.  Finally at 8.30 p.m. took another very good mirror on triple sweetcorn.  Best fight so far and fairly confident it would have beaten 10 lb. Few carp taken today but the new bridge and cut between ponds produced a couple. No sign of barbel, perhaps due to cooler weather.