After many months I spotted my first carp on the Lea Navigation just a few days back, a single common carp of around twenty pounds. I watched it for a few minutes casually cruising along side the canals near bank.
Yesterday I saw a huge shoal of bream in the same place all around the five pound mark cavorting amongst one another, dancing a spring time jig. How these huge flocks of bream keep themselves so well hidden throughout the year is a ghostly trick, but I must have seen at least fifty or so preparing to spawn.
For now my sights are on the Sussex tench but this weekend is far too windy for my first proper expedition, hopefully the weekend after will be a little more inviting. Yes, after my last post The Syndicate my renewal came through that very same afternoon, so I have promised myself not to just dream but to actually go and fish this great old millpond.
In the meantime I shall meet with friends and talk of fishing instead…
the tuesday swim... 
Good evening
it’s that magic month of May where any angler watching all forms of water quite often get a glimpse of what they hold,and boy does that not get the imagination working overtime the Trent will soon start to show it’s hidden potential and my head will be spinning!Just picking up on your observation regarding where these fish go to hide out the way of us anglers , we Trentmen suffer this from around October when the shoals of roach,dace ghost away to another world?………keeps me on my toes I guess!
Kind Regards
Nige
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