Despite the bad weather (being a bucket load of rain), I stuck to my plan of fishing Sunday afternoon onwards until Monday morning.

I was I bit tempted to stay at home and muck around with the kid’s.  They had new nurf gun’s and were having fun with them!  However, the pull of fishing got the better of me as always.

When I arrived, I had the choice of any swim on the lake.  Oh, don’t you love it when that happens?  It’s impossible to make your mind up, anyway after a quick look about and I do mean quick.  I headed for another of my Winter swim choices,  which would give me an opportunity to lead around and check the depth with a marker float.

Just as I was just finishing getting set up, the rain hit hard again and as it was only 1230.  I though that I would put both rod’s along the margin tree line.

Just for a few hours and to give me time to find another spot in open water.

Pva mesh bag full of micro pellet, soaked in Krill &Tuna Oil, with a Poloni pop up on.

I sat back and watched the lake for any fishy signs.

At around 1600 hrs (as the weather man promised) there was a break in the weather.  This gave me a bit of time to find that open water spot.  I was happily spombing away and suddenly the right hand rod was off.  I was into yet another hard fighting fish, who was not very happy.  However, after what felt like a lifetime and a few near misses with the snags and overhanging trees, a nice 22 lb 7 oz Common was in the net.

I re-baited that rod and cast it out to the open water spot and I would leave the left hand rod for a few hours more.  I would then move that to the right hand spot.  I didn’t fancy my chances of getting a fish in at night from the right hand spot (as we all know, you can be a bit slow on to the rods at night).

And by now it was brew and grub time.

With a very moody morning, it was time to be off and with only bream in the night.  That was the only carp of the trip.

Till next time Richard