Since I settled in Hampshire I've come to despise this time of year. In the last ten years I've probably done no more than twenty trips between the end of October and the New Year. My local rivers react terribly to rain, rising several feet and turning brown, and the only respite from this is when a high pressure system brings sharp frosts! The local lakes are by and large poor after the first frosts anyway, being mainly old estate lakes and farm ponds.
I grew up in Hertfordshire, where if anything the fishing was better between October and March than it was during the summer; the rivers there were mostly chalk or spring fed so didn't flood badly, and the stillwaters were mainly gravel extractions which got quite weedy in summer, so the colder weather actually improved one's chances, especially for pike and perch.
Nowadays the only fishing I do in late autumn/early winter is a couple of days grayling trotting and the odd overnighter when conditions look profitable for a large carp. Come mid January I'll be itching to get back out after the chub and roach, but for now I seem to semi-hibernate.
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