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EVENINGS PERCHING

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Hi everyone, just thought i,d drop this in to let you know about a recent trip i had on the 26th to a local river in search of the mighty stripey.... Well i arrived at my destination about 7pm on what was a very hot evening following a scorcher of a day. I was all revved up to try for a nice fat summer perch so i started of in an area between some boats with a few lures to try and tempt anything with teeth. Well after an hour i hadn,t even had a tug which i was a little disappointed in as this stretch is usually jack pike alley during the winter months. I then decided it was time to target the species i had come for, The Perch, so off i went and sneaked into my favourite swim in front of a big live-aboard boat. Your not actually allowed to fish this area but as long as your quite, don,t leave any mess and generally behave your ok. Thats unless some toss bag of a boat owner doesn,t telephone the lock keeper who promptly comes round and kicks you off, as happened to me this time. Why a

BROADLANDS RE-VISITED

Hi all, its been a while since my last post because i,ve been so busy with work. Everyones ponds are having problems and its yours truly who gets the job of fixing them. Nevermind it pays for the fishing i guess. Anyways on 21st June myself and my Dad pointed my truck in the Norfolk direction and set of at 5.30am bound for wroxham broad. I,d booked a days lure fishing with my old mate Allan Griffith owner off Predator People and he was going to take us out in search of some nice lure munching pike and perch. We arrived an hour early and found Allan already with boat in water waiting so we loaded up quickly and away we went. We started in the river by slowly drifting while there was little boat traffic around. The aim being to cast our various lures into any likely looking areas. It started of an overcast day with a little breeze which we thought would be perfect conditions for a toothy attack on our lures. Well after a morning of doing this all we had to show for our efforts was a