The Marina

Last Saturday saw us head off to a place that Rob had wanted to fish for ages. I think it was a picture
of a decent perch that I had from it early last year that put the idea in his head. Now personally I hate
catching Perch slower to unhook, allways having to change hooklengths. With my match anglers hat

on they slow me down and I hate that.

Recent reports were good, with good bags being taken in matches the previous couple of weeks so it's fair to say we were both looking forward to it. The night before we got news that the river had dropped significantly and therefore the marina had too, so it wasn't going to be great. We toyed with the idea of going somewhere else but decided to stay with the plan, the marina it is.
An early start has us in Carlow at 09.00 hrs, if were after perch we needed worm and lots of it so
Carlow Coarse Angling Supplies was the first stop. A kilo of worm quickly sorted and we're back in the
direction of the venue,
We were lucky enough to get two swims beside each other and set about getting set up.
We both went for two lines, 1 for roach and 1 for perch. These were fed accordingly, the roach line
got fed with groundbait, hemp, caster and mags. The perch lines got chopped worm and caster with no groundbait. Both of us plumbed up at about 10m to find harldy 3 feet of depth, not great.
As the hours passed it became apparent that the "silvers" had in fact moved back in to the main river as all we could get were perch. Fair enough on the specific perch lines but even on what should have been
a roach line we were getting perch.
It was a wee bit slower than we'd both have liked but the sun was shining and it was all
very nice really, mucky but nice. At about 15.00 hrs it was getting very dark and ominous looking clouds
were gathering. We were going to get a soaking but we had said we'd fsh till 16.00 so we kept at it, eejits.
At about 15.40 the heavens opened and we got a 15 minute soaking, all the kit drenched and huridly
packed away in bits. We realised on the way down that we had no scales so agreed we'd use counters
at the end of the day to decide on who had done best, Rob had 29 on his and I had 37 on mine.

Perch...........



And theres more !!!!