Hi Gary,

I know you like to receive catch reports from Sherborne Lake, so here goes

Monday was a beautiful day for sitting in the sun, but not necessarily great for angling, baking hot, flat calm, crystal clear water. After spending most of the day watching my feeder rod doing very little (and seeing a number of anglers pack up and call it a day), I decided to try something else to use up a bit of bait and give me something else to look at. So,  I stuck out a 4m whip in the margins, loose fed a few maggots and was rewarded with a lovely 6.11 lb hybrid (pics attached). Interestingly, I bought the whip last year for one of my daughters who wanted to have a go at fishing. It’s a really (really) basic ‘no frills’ set up, no elastic, 3lb hook length to a barbless size 16 hook, twenty quid or thereabouts. This is the second time I have used it, I previously used it at the lake one afternoon last year when sport was similarly slow on the feeder, tactics were the same, loose fed a few maggots in the margins but that time I was rewarded with a 6.5 lb bream. Anyhow, it reminded me of when I started fishing many years ago that you don’t have to have loads of gear, you don’t have to cast far, you don’t have to use complex rigs,  you just need some patience (and maybe a little bit of luck now and then).

Cheers

Andy Belben