Its been a long time since my last blog so I thought it was about time I let know what I have been up to. My last blog was in November and from November to March I have done very little fishing, mainly due to the horrendous weather and work commitments. Being a fisheries contractor much of the fish work is carried out over the winter period and with the long working days and even longer nights I find very little time to fish. However as we wen
t into spring with the clocks going forward the the work load slowing up I decided to fish hard to the end of May when the lakes close for two months. Although only fishing overnighters I managed to get amongst the fish from the first trip and managed to keep catching right the way to the end of the season. I was still using Hinders crayberry to great effect but was also given a new bait to test from Shaun which was a much darker bait. This bait went on to be called snailz and is now on sale in the shop. I fished crayberry and snailz along side each other during he field testing and caught equally on both baits. The biggest fish to fall to the snailz was a 38lb 12oz mirror and with crayberry taking my target fish the "Long Common" at 42lb 4oz ot was 
a great spring.
t into spring with the clocks going forward the the work load slowing up I decided to fish hard to the end of May when the lakes close for two months. Although only fishing overnighters I managed to get amongst the fish from the first trip and managed to keep catching right the way to the end of the season. I was still using Hinders crayberry to great effect but was also given a new bait to test from Shaun which was a much darker bait. This bait went on to be called snailz and is now on sale in the shop. I fished crayberry and snailz along side each other during he field testing and caught equally on both baits. The biggest fish to fall to the snailz was a 38lb 12oz mirror and with crayberry taking my target fish the "Long Common" at 42lb 4oz ot was 
a great spring.
