Short 24 hours
James Fox
I arrived at the lake to find roughly 12 anglers on the lake
and considering there is only 14 pegs its was safe to say it was rammed! There
was a few people coming off during the day so I decided to leave the gear in
the car and walk around with the water butt and try to find a decent peg, but I couldn't get in a peg anywhere near the fish. So for the rest of the day I spent
up a tree watching the carp patrolling the island margin and the spit coming
out from the bank. Whilst I was up the tree I noticed a few of the fish seemed
to like hanging about under a sunken tree on the spit and a few seemed to tip
down for a little feed. At this time it was about 5pm and I had only just got my
barrow out of the motor!
I trundled off down to the swim not all that confident
but I knew there was at least a few fish in front of me. I started getting the
rods ready to go out, both rods were going out on 'Hinge Flops' and sticky
vortex pop ups over about a kilo of freebies. I got both the rods out about 30
minutes before last light so I sat down and made some tea.
I only had to wait
about 20 mins and the right hand rod pulled up tight and I was into a what I thought was a bream but soon found out it wasn't it was just a big heavy weight! After a
pretty uneventful fight I slipped the net under a decent common! Before getting
the fish out i slipped the hook out and stuck the rod back out on the spot just
in case they were still down there. I got her out and strung her up and she went
28lb 2oz proper chunk!
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| 28lb 2oz Common |
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| 17lb 2oz |
Apart from dropping another two fish in the snags nothing
else happened. As morning came I saw a few fish against the island in real
shallow water maybe 2-3ft so i cast one rod over there and fished for a shallow
drop. The rod was only out for maybe 20 mins and I had an angry carp on! This
time it was a 17lb 2oz simmo.
The rod went back out to see if there was
anymore out there. But about 10 mins later I got a few bleeps on the slugs and
thought I had been picked up by a coot because one had just splashed right on top
of the rod. I preceded to reel the rod in to re-cast it & when I got the rig
within about 20 yards of the bank and the rod hooped over and i was into a very
angry carp! Another 20+ minutes past and I hadn't even see the fish yet! Eventually it popped up above the shelf and I sneakily netted her unawares! This on
was something a bit special! I couldn't unhook her in the net because the hook
was a good 4 inches back! I got her onto the mat and slipped the hook out
and gave her a quick weigh and she was a 25-10 scaly beaut!
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| 25lb 10oz Scaly |
That was to be the end of my session! While I was there only
one other person had a bite! So out of 10 anglers there was 6 bites and i had 5
of them!
James Fox - Noble's Fishing
