The Indian summer continues and my week started by taking a couple of youngster down to Mill Farm Fishery in West Sussex.

Being half term and unseasonably warm the lakes were quite busy however we secured our swims on the specimen lake and cast out maggot feeders in the hope one may catch a British record silver bream. Unfortunately the bream stayed away but James recorded four personal bests in the form of a 1lb15oz perch, 3lb 11oz tench a roach around the pound mark and a tiny silver after moving later in the day. Thomas wasn’t having such a good day although he did manage a good roach, his first ever perch and a silver bream on the middle lake of a pound. The lads left happy and amazingly kept their concentration for all eight hours!

Thursday l had to complete a feature for TCF and with autumn perch the target headed for my favourite venue, Frensham Great Pond. The first two hours saw numerous perch caught of all sizes and with around 15lb in the net decided to go and stalk the larger ones seen under the tree. Watching quality perch in clear water is fascinating and my lobworm tail tempted around half a dozen up to 1lb 12oz.

Having set my sights on concentrating on the Kennet during October it seemed right to return although both my target weights for chub and barbel had been achieved. As with my first visit the tip finally flew round and the pest controller was in once again with a barbel around 3lb.

Next week we’ve been promised rain and with the temperature dropping as the week goes on lm hoping to get out with Alan Stagg and target the Zander at Old Bury Hill.