Catch report - Harting Combe

Steve Burchell.

Combe

Date:

17/09/2026

Time.

06.30am

Peg Number:	One	Weather:	Miserable and raining
Air temp:	15.6°c	Water temp:		18.4°c . water levels still low but improving.

Equipment
Rod 1:	Size 16, 8lb, feeder rod with cage feeder
Rod 2:	Size 16, 8lb, feeder rod with cage feeder
Bait.
10mm special mix soft boilie		10mm special mix with fish meal soft boilie
12mm tutti-frutti boilie		Ground bait , krill based, maize and dead maggots

Comments

Time.	06.50	Changes (if any).	Size 16 hooks fitted with hair bayonets
Lots of interest but no real takes.  Both rods fished tight to the pads

Time.	07.10	Changes (if any).	Water temp dropped by 0 .5°c. due to rain
Rod 1 , take which produced a small skimmer. Followed by an even smaller one on rod 2.

Time.	09.00	Changes (if any).
Tried out newly 3D printed ground bait dispenser, was originally a snowball maker. Works pretty good, if you want one just ask. it comes in whatever colour pla I have in the printer at the time

Time.	09.45	Changes (if any).
Rod 1, massive take which produced a 8lb bream.

That was the last fish of the morning. Packed up and by the afternoon, the sun had come out. Oh well always next week.

Steve