I am back out for my Sunday afternoon/night trip which I have missed recently, mostly due to fish – I must add.

I am fishing one of the Winter swims which I will be fishing this year.  Due to my house husband duty’s, I did not arrive until after dark.  I needed to do a bit of forward planning, lead around and take notes of distances to spots, in all the swims I will be baiting up with Bait-Tech Poloni boilies this year.

The first spot is to my right on the drop off of the bar which runs off some bushes.

The right hand rod with be along this tree line, or maybe in the entrance to the other part of the lake though a gap.  There are two,  so I am still undecided on which spot.

Both rods have had a good few large spombs over the top, with a good mix up of ground bait, pellets, 14mm, 18nm whole and broken up boilies and a few tiger nuts mixed in.  All of these will keep the carp interested.

What carp could resisted that?

Well finally after 2 tench and a bream, I banked a nice hard fight carp.  This fish must have more or less taken the bag on the drop.  I had decided that after the last tench, my bait was not quite right, so I re-baited with fresh bait – a small bag of broken Poloni.  After a perfect shot under the trees and as I turned to walk back to the bivvy (after setting the bobbin), the rod was away.

18lb 10oz Common

There was a beautiful sunset tonight as well.

I weighed one of the tench and it was 5 lb 14 oz, not bad.

At around 1 am I had my second carp of the trip, an even harder fighting 15 lb 10 oz common.  This proved harder to get in the net than the 18!  These fish in here never give up!

With the alarm clock going off at 5 am, it gives me plenty of time to have a brew and watch the lake before I need to be off by 0645.  This was all the action I had, not bad really.

Till next time

Richard