CRUCIANS, CRUCIANS EVERYWHERE

     It's been quite a couple of weeks for me at the club lake on the Crucian front. Not only have I caught plenty but my understanding of them has been both reinforced and found wanting; rather more the latter than the former. I've already written about them unexpectedly taking baits that I'd never caught them on before, namely hemp and tares. These are not baits that I have ever seen recommended for Crucians but the tares in particular seemed popular enough producing fish to a pound and three quarters.

 
     Worms are another bait that are seldom mentioned in the same breath but sure enough a recent Bream session produced some fish equally as nice as the Roach one had. This time though, and just to rub a little salt in the wound, they came to the feeder fished forty yards from the margins; the very margins that I have always associated Crucians with. So that is already three 'rules' of mine shot up the fundamental orifice; proof if it were needed that there are no rules in fishing and that all my theories are just a load of over-thought waffle.