Trip No24 Carp Fishing (2015)

I have managed to fit in a days fishing on my last week of work (before I am made redundant), everyone in the office are mostly good and we are spreading the tiny work load – 5 ish phone calls a day.

I have picked a nice quiet corner – as there is no one else here the whole place is quiet, except for the birds.

Rod 1 – is tucked under the bush to the right of me.

Rod 2 – is on the far margin in a small bay between the margin tree. I have spomb’d out the last of my groundbait from my last trip.

I have add a few more micro mixed pellets from Bait-Tech and top up the attraction level. We will see what happens this afternoon and tonight. The weather was supposed to be overcast. However, the sun keeps appearing and its warming up fast, we will see.

Well the day has passed and with the weather being completely wrong, I am not surprised. I need to get this day fishing sorted soon, as I will be spending a bit of time doing days when the kid’s are in school.

By 10 pm, I was thinking something is not right here, as I should of have had a take by now – anyway there was not much I could do about it now. So I got tucked up in the bag and at around 1 am I finally got a take. The hook link parted and to say I was peeved off was an understatement. I really hate with a passion leaving hooks in carp. Any way, I finally got back to sleep and at around 3 am I was in again and had a nice 15 lb common in the net. I recast and got back in the sack again and was woken up again around 5 am with another take and blow me, it happened again. This night is not going my way and as I was getting a bit paranoid at this point. I changed both my rod’s over to another type of hook link material and will investigate later. My luck was still tipping the scales in the wrong direction, I lost yet another fish. This time, due to a nice big tree branch that I have never found in this spot before. One good thing, the hook link and hook where still attached, which was nice after my previous problems.

The morning sun was starting to come over the trees and with only 2 hrs left fishing, I really hoped that things would start to come good before I had to be off to work.