ICE ICE BABY!

Today i managed to get away from work a little earlier,,so this evening  i headed to my local club water which isn't far from my work, hoping i could get the rods in the water whilst still light.nothing worse than fishing when its hanging over a branch and your totally unaware of it!
As i pulled into the car park i looked to my right only to see a lid over the top which instantly rained on my parade!,i got out the bus and walked towards the water to find the right hand margin only about 10ft wide and a small bay area in front of my chosen swim also clear,i nearly got in the car and left but i thought ,well im here now so lets have it !

I set up my oval brolley as it was a tad chilly to say the least,hung up my new bivvy bulb light ,which is awesome and lit my little gas heater,quite cosy out the wind
   

                   

I opted for a standard bottom rig with a tiger nut boilie tipped with yellow corn,im quite anal about the corn as i like it to be clean and bright as opposed to kicking around in the bottom of the bag for months,standard lead clip and a 1 1/2 oz lead .
the right rod went in on a favourite spot with a nice donk and the other went in open water near the encroaching ice line .I settled down for a while getting cosy next to the fire when i had a double bleep on the rh rod,i looked up only to find that a group of robins, that had arrived mob handed,5 in total,they were in my oval and on my rods ,you get the idea. i fed a few broken up boilies to them and they soon flew off as darkness fell.

 The peace wasnt to last long as suddenly the rh rod erupted into life and i was on it like a man posessed! ,a brief struggle ensued and a lovely winter common was soon on the mat.cracking under the conditions.

After a quick matt shot i recast the rod to the same spot,only to get liners straight away and after about the fourth or fifth liner the rod was away once more only this time a tinca was the culprit,could not believe it a tench on feb 2 in freezing conditions,but then a fish is a fish. by now it was getting very cold so i changed the gas bottle and sat it out till about 6.45 then i decided to call it a night,i knew it was cold when i couldnt fold my net and my matt was frozen solid.,i drove home quite happy with myself thinking i would have a look tomorrow and see how the ice was doing after work.maybe worth another go ,who knows.

quite happy with two fish in under two hours in the freezing cold.hope fully aaron will be with me next time to bag his first double.....