Its Spring - NOT Summer!

You'd think that we'd be used to it by now wouldn't you? I mean, it happens every single year! No sooner has the sun poked it's head out from around the clouds to see if it's safe to come out, we've banished the winter wardrobe to the spare room and donned a pair of daft shorts and silly sunglasses. And then what happens? It goes cold again - and we all complain!

Don't even get me started about the clocks going forward...or back, or whatever it is they do that means i'm getting up to go fishing an hour out of sync with the world.

Personally, I'm guilty at times of thinking in terms of only 2 seasons - Winter and Summer. Pike in winter and carp in the summer. I'm not suggesting that that is all I fish for by any means, but they are my primary targets.

However, it is clear that by not embracing the other two seasons that i am missing out. Spring is the main one that leaves me a little bewildered. Last year I feel that I should of carried on piking through march, after I blanked miserably targeting carp while the water was still very cold. I swore i would not do the same this year. So, here's a picture of me wearing a stupid grin, a black rubber glove and a 5lb carp that i caught last week...in March!

I think you have to use your judgement a lot more in the spring time than you would any other season. The water is still going to be cold for a month or so yet, but a shallow commercial might well have warmed sufficiently for the carp to fancy a well presented 15mm Source boilie fished on a size 10 barbless choddy on a 12" mono stiff link and a 3oz lead.

Mick had the best fish of a haul of 5 in total. His best went 12lb 8oz. The weather prior to the trip had been quite mild, hence the reason we bothered! The weather on the day was cold and grey most of the time though, I think we did well to catch under the circumstances. Let the spring begin.

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