As the family are away,  I have taken the opportunity to do three nights fishing on my new water.  The weather is blowing a strong SW direction so I was happy with these conditions.   Unfortunately my plan to fish the same swim as last night did not quite work out, as there was an angler in the swim next door.  As you know from my past blogs, I believe that you should give your fellow anglers some space (and both of you a chance to get a fish), best not fish on top of each other.

I opted for a swim three peg’s down, this gave me access to a large area of the lake.  This ment I could cast to areas I would not be able to reach if I was not in this swim.  I felt that this would give me the best options with the coming of the weekend anglers.  I had a little time before last light, the traffic was shocking on the way here, mainly down to the heavy rain showers, I was hoping this would not affect the fishing.  I finally found a nice hard(ish) area and spomb’d some bait out, mainly ground up bollies, ground bait with hemp and a load of liquid attraction thrown in. I placed both rod’s on the spot for the first night.

Night one

It was very rough with plenty of heavy rain storms.  I hope this has not affected the fish too much.  I am sitting typing this beside my bivvy door, hoping to spot any carpy signs.  I was happy with my baiting up yesterday (dispite the lack of time).  I plan to leave them as  they are until I feel the need to move them.  No point on pushing any fish in the area away.

The first day has past with no action for me, there has been a couple of fish out the lake today.  Unfortunately, it has got very busy, probably due to the improved weather conditions.
I have topped the swim up with more of my spod mix.

As the sun was setting, the bream came out to play and within an hour, I had had some 8 in my net!

Lets see what tonight brings.  According to the forecast, there will be a good frost tonight.  Which I was not expecting a few days ago.

Night two

Well, I had a nice layin it was nearly 10am when I woke, must have been knackered, I don’t normally sleep past 7 am!

With still no carp in the net,  I had a few options but to move swim.  However, as most people who were here last night have now gone and there would be a few hour’s before the Saturday night crew arrived, I had the chance to pick my swim.  Unfortunately, the only two swims I fancied had people in.

I had no other option than stick to my plan.  Today, I was going to bait up in the morning, as I would be off first thing tomorrow.  Maybe, it may encourage a take during the day and low and behold, within the hour, I had had another bream.  At least I was on some sort of feeding spot.

There has been all sorts of weather today.

Night three

Boy, that was a cold one.  Not a touch all night and this morning the world was white.

The sun was out for a little while but it is now gone behind the clouds for the day.  The air temperature has dropped and a slow pack up was the order of the day (after a few cups of coffee).

Till next time
Richard