Brackets fishing adventures

Today was a day we had planned since our last river session. This time it was to be just me and Damon. The plan was to target Dace and Chub on our local little river. We had scoured you tube and blogs and face book and even our own experience and found some spots that would be likely. I was fishing the float with my Daiwa 125m closed face reel and Damon was fishing with a small Feeder setup to try and find a big chub hiding away.  Tackle was sorted the night before and it was just bait to get in the morning as the tackle shop is only a short drive away.  Woke up in the morning and there was some snow on the ground. Not much just a light sprinkling at first. I spoke to Damon and he was still all good to go.  Took the Wife to work and headed off to the tackle shop. it was still snowing and quite heavy now.  Maybe the kids school might close?? Emily really wanted to go to school but Jacob was excited by the prospect of a snow day and a days fishing with me and uncle Damon.  My Bait of cho

  Here Fishy Fishy It Was a Very Cold Morning as I dropped the Mrs off at work the car read -1c. From her work it was a 5 min drive to Adlington Angling centre. Parked up on the little Tesco car park grabbed some munch and then popped over the road to The fishing shop to grab a pint of there finest maggots. Today was a recce and a bit of an adventure for the kids. I was meeting up with my brother Damon and his little one so the kids could have a play and we could have a fish on the river which we haven't done for ages.  Target Chub and Dace.  We got to the meeting point and it was just about light so we took our time and tackled up. One rod between us pint of maggots and a bit of spare end tackle is all we took apart from the 2 rucksacks full of drinks and munch for the kids. Its only a short walk to the river from where we where so no hurry. as we walked down the frost was glistening in the early morning sun and it looked beautiful.  The River looked amazing and i had high hopes w