Roger Fleming's angling round-up: February.

Free Press angling correspondent ROGER FLEMING looks back on a mixed month for local fishermen.

PRESTONS lake has been fishing well for silver fish.

Using quiver-tipped worm on the hook, and maggots and casters in a feeder, fished some distance out, I've attracted good perch around the pound mark and the odd bream, and it's been the same for fellow anglers using the same method.

Quality bream have been taken too. The proprietor of Stour Valley Tackle in Halstead, who hadn't fished at Prestons for some years, picked a swim in the car park and with large punched bread on a hair-rig and with soaked pellets in his cage feeder, took 16 good bream and a medium …

Roger Fleming's angling round-up: February.

Free Press angling correspondent ROGER FLEMING looks back on a mixed month for local fishermen.

PRESTONS lake has been fishing well for silver fish.

Using quiver-tipped worm on the hook, and maggots and casters in a feeder, fished some distance out, I've attracted good perch around the pound mark and the odd bream, and it's been the same for fellow anglers using the same method.

Quality bream have been taken too. The proprietor of Stour Valley Tackle in Halstead, who hadn't fished at Prestons for some years, picked a swim in the car park and with large punched bread on a hair-rig and with soaked pellets in his cage feeder, took 16 good bream and a medium …