Lure Anglers Society Get Together

Yesterday saw a few of the members of the L.A.S. from the North-West getting together for an informal fish-in. The bank holiday weekend meant a few of the regulars couldn't make it and they were missed.
We have fished together on venues where we've had to break the ice in order to fish so it was a pleasant change to fish in the warm Spring sunshine!

The lake shore is heavily lined with trees with few obvious swims which made for some jungle style fishing. Here Damo is fish spotting as Al chases a shoal of roach spotted in the margins with a tiny curl tail grub on a 1g jig head.

Al in the jungle!

Graeme at peace with the world!

We all managed to catch a few fish, though with the bright conditions the large perch we were chasing appeared not to be feeding. Al managed a perch around half a pound amongst his catch and Graeme had one around the pound mark. Damo had a a nice mixed bag including perch, a roach and Pike up to 8lb.

The margins were paved with small perch and I had great fun catching them on a 1'' crappie tube on a 1g jig head! We agreed that when we return to this beautiful lake we need to be a bit more organised and arrange tickets the day before so we can make an earlier start and hopefully catch the morning feeding spell.

All in all a very enjoyable day out in great company.

I took a few shots of the bluebells and this afternoon, having been driven off my local lake by the wind and rain, had a play with  a recently acquired photo-shop package. I really like this single colour effect.