Andy Spreadbury's Fishing Blog

Tuesday, 28th.January 2020 Paddlesworth, Pollard, Peg30 10.15 I spoke to my spies and fellow collaborators during the week and got the ‘latest’ on what’s been happening and where the fish have been coming out. It seems that the only pegs to yield fish during the past few weeks have been P4 and P12. It is no co-incidence that whilst not casting to exactly the same water, they are there or thereabouts. The news I’d had a 34 from P30 came as somewhat of a surprise to many and it appears I had earn’t a fair bit of kudos and cred’ for its capture! [Now that is a first!] Today however both P4 and P12 are both taken (one of which by my good friend Nobby who overnight had caught five to 32lbs.) I was absolutely delighted for him as he has had a pretty lean time of it lately and deserves every credit for each and every one of his fish. I’d had it fixed in my mind that I had to be in P4 or P12 and to fail in this regard would result in a blank, no-where else having produced anyt...

21st.-23rd. January 2020 Paddlesworth Pollard, Peg 30 13.00 After a late start at last I am out fishing… I have spent the past six weeks ‘confined to barracks’. What with Christmas and New Year social events, extensive building works to the house, and a hundred and one other distractions - not to mention the appalling weather which has seen local flooding, I hadn’t known whether it was even possible to negotiate the banks much less fish! But here I am in peg 30 with all three baits cast at eighteen wraps to the usual spot opposite - the dip down in the tree-line where the house roofs are. Just having a cuppa before thinking about putting the spodding gear to good use. Back again in P30. It's almost impossible to get in this peg normally, so popular is it, it's constantly occupied. For this reason though I favour it because everyone spods feed out there creating an artificial 'feeding zone' where the carp can habitually find food. 13.2...