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ROBIN DIX
can only say it had it had the smell of the seaside, not fishy but
a kind of ozone/seaweed smell. I used a liquid colour ( yellow),
and the bait turned out as good as I’d hoped. The oyster powder
was difficult to work with, and I had the last jar, so I needed a
backup flavour. I had a ginger and oyster sauce one made up.
The smell was spot-on but not a patch on the powder.
I started off fishing bot to m ba i t s an d c au gh t a va ri et y o f
s p ecies, but not the carp I wa s a f te r. T h e o n ly p l us p o i n t wa s
t h at I didn’t see any o ther s ca tc h e i t h er, s o s o m e t h i n g h a d to
c h ange. Much has been wri t te n a b o u t L i t t le Fre n s h a m ( B u rto n o n -Sea), but not till I really f i s h e d t he re d i d I f u l ly u n d e rs t a n d
t h e complex nature of such a p re tt y l o o k i n g, re e d - fri n g e d l a ke .
The lake is in a once flooded
va lley, and during WW2 , i t
was drained and plante d
w i th fir trees to prevent the
G e rman air force using it to
l i ne up for bombing raid s.
W hen the war was ove r,
t h e trees were cut and th e
l a ke filled again. The only
t rouble was that the trees
were cut off at anything u p
to 24in from the base. Th e
l a ke was stocked with car p
f rom Donald Leney, and a s
yo u can imagine the tre e
s t umps could play havo c .
T he bottom was very up
a n d down, so when you ha d
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