Badshot Lea Little Pond, 11th July 2019

A day out with Nathan and his dad, John and an opportunity to fish Badshot Lea Little Pond in a mini competition between the three of us. The Draw Well, not so much as a draw as a selection... we decided to be social and fish three swims next to each other, Nathan had the first choice and went for Peg 10, John, Peg 11 and I took Peg 9. Set-up I had decided while packing the car that I would leave the pole at home and fish rods only. In the bag was a waggler rod and two tip rods, one for standard swim feeder / bomb tactics and the other with a method set-up. I set-up the waggler to fish around 16 metres and standard feeder rod clipped up to a third the way over the swim. Bait was dead maggot, caster, assorted hard pellet and ground bait. All-In Two lines of attack would be adopted, the waggler line and the feeder... really simple fishing. The waggler line was fed with six balls of groundbait laced with some casters and dead maggots which I would leave for a couple ...