Its Been A While.... 

It's been a long time since my last post, sadly not so much fishing but a new role at work as a surveyor means I have been working a fair few hours.
But in between work and family life I have managed a bit of fishing since my last post back in July, firstly me and Steve returned to Marsh Farm for our first night session, and I couldn't wait.
We decided to fish the far end of Richardsons as the first half had a match on the following morning so we needed to be out of the way.

My plan was to start very light float fishing tactics until dark then crack out the barbel rods for feeder fishing through the night.
I baited lightly to start and was having a few bites from Rudd, small Tench and the odd Crucian but nothing big.
After dinner the sun started to drop so it was time to put the rods on the alarms.
I was still fishing one of the rods in the margins and the other into open water, both on flat bed feeder method, one using plastic caster, the other real caster.
The bites were slow but steady to both rods and I had some really bad pictures as I'm not used to having my picture taken in the dark.

By now it was really dark, and we had both made the mistake of using a weather app, which stated a fairly mild whether throughout the night so we didn't even bring a Bivvy or shelter, I mean its summer, I luckily had a sleeping bag, but during the night the weather plummeted.
I woke up at about 3am, all the kit covered in dew and freezing cold,  Steve was already awake and making a fried breakfast just to keep warm.
After some food we decided to pack up and leave, it was far to cold to continue fishing, and with a drop in temperature like that it was unlikely to fish very well anyway.
Well not the best night session but still had a few fish, just worth remembering whether apps are just pants.