{"id":10270,"date":"2017-05-22T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dynamitebaits.com\/nl\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T12:25:25","slug":"early-spring-tony-gibsons-angling-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dynamitebaits.com\/nl\/articles\/early-spring-tony-gibsons-angling-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring – Tony Gibson’s Angling Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the rivers now closed, it was time for me to concentrate on the stillwaters to try and catch my target species for the early Spring period.<\/p>\n

Having not seriously fished for big roach for a few years, these were one of my main targets for the mid-March to mid-May period. One of the pits on a complex that I fish on a regular basis had produced a handful of big roach in the past and although I\u2019d only ever either pike fished, or used the pit as an occasional carp stalking water in the past I was confident that if I could put myself in the right swim and locate some roach, then I\u2019d be in with a chance.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, despite a few sessions on different swims around the pit, I\u2019ve yet to put the landing net under a decent roach. However, other species have been keeping the fishing interesting, so it\u2019s been far from a waste of time. My main approach has been with the bolt-rigged maggot feeders on two of the three rods. These have been fished with short braid hooklengths terminating in a small hook baited with double maggot, fished helicopter rig style. Then I\u2019ve fished a third rod on a variety of different methods and baits to see what else might be caught.<\/p>\n