It’s been sometime since I did a weekend and I was pleasantly surprised how many swims were free.

However, with a friend arriving tomorrow morning, I was mindful of my swim selection.  The fact was I was quite looking forward to a social and a few glasses of wine.  As luck would have it, the island was free and the wind was pushing nicely onto it.  I was quite suppressed it was still free.

After my last trip here and a couple of lost fish, I had to think hard about my approach to the swim.  Firstly, I was not to keen on fishing the same range, so after a lead around, I was quite happy with a nice silty area and I spombed out 2 kilo of boilies over a large area.  I had to be mindful of the swan and I placed two rod’s on this area, both with washed out  pop ups on different colours.

The first night was uneventful and a misty start to the day, amazingly the fish area showing signs of spawning, they are following each other around quite a lot this morning.

My friend arriving and a few glass of wine where consumed and that was the afternoon, carp were in full spawning mode .

I would normally head home when the fish start their game’s.  However, with no real knowledge of fish stocks, type of carp, it was a great opportunity to see a few good mirrors amongst all the commons.  By the evening they had calmed down a lot and with some rain forecast over night, I thought there could be a chance to pick a carp up, who had not joined the party.  But in the night they where off in full on spawning mode and we had no real chance.

A perfect morning and the fish where still going strong.

Time for food and dry every thing off, head home and leave the fish to their business.

Until next time
Richard

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