28th.-30th.November 2019 Paddlesworth, Pollard, Peg 30 12.50 All baits are out; some spodding completed (although there is still some to do. I’m just having a break for something to eat). Two baits are on the usual mark whilst the rh rod is cast speculatively towards ‘The Brambles’ opposite. I’ve seen a couple of ‘shows’ in front of P31 and it makes sense to put a bait over there although I have introduced no spod mix over it. I’m hoping to pick up an opportunist fish rather than set my traps to a specific plan. I have become more and more convinced that feeding is the key to catching carp on Pollard and I think the principles I have established for here would be equally successful on other waters of my acquaintance. Not all of them however because I think only on those which share the same characteristics as Pollard, will it work. Pollard is in relative terms a ‘barren’ water. By that I don’t mean it doesn’t hold any of the creatures, organisms, flora, and fauna that