OK, we'll pack up in half an hour !!!

I can see Rob through the round window

And so the day kept on going, until there was nothing left to put in the feeders. Such was our enjoyment on what turned out to be a cracking venue in darkest Cavan or is it Leitrim ?
A nice handy start leaving the house at 08.30 had us in great form from the off. This was a day with nobody to beat, no "All Ins'", no mad rush just a simple day on the feeders.
Having never fished the venue before it took a small bit of finding and a call to Dublins best looking tackle dealer (Joe Nolan of C&J Angling) had us sorted with no real trouble. We elected to fish the area with the steps down to the lake and it turned out to be a good choice.

Peace and quiet.............

Mother nature chucked everything at us over the course of the day, a NW wind was straight at us and so casting was kept to a distance of about 30 yds. Grounbait was a mix of Sensas Match and brown crumb, darkened off with black Tracix. Caster, red mags, hemp and corn were fed through the feeders and all though we were getting bites on whatever we hooked, double red mag seemed to be the best.
Bites were regular enough, though it was never hectic stuff which was just what the doctor ordered.
Skimmers. roach, hybrids and perch all graced the nets at some stage and I pulled out of the only bream
we nearly saw all day, doh !!!
We tried a variety of hooklengths to see if we could get a few more, long, short, bigger hooks smaller hooks, all the usual tactics. A longer hooklength of about 3 foot to a Tubertini 808 in a size 16 seemed to win out in the end. In truth I'm not sure it made a  huge difference.

Go on then, go round.........

I had thought about a finish time of about 16.00 hrs but we were having such an enjoyable day we kept adding another 30 mins until eventually at about 17.30, we literally had nothing left to put in the feeders or on the hooks so reluctantly we called it a day.
We figured as the day was going that I had a bit more than Rob and as the nets were pulled out a quick look
confirmed that I had. We hadn't brought scales so going on the number of fish caught we figured about
10lb for me and 8lb ish for Rob. No doubt that had we been in match mode we'd have done considerably better but some days, pleasure mode is just fine.........................