Trip 37 Carp Fishing- 2019

Well, it looks like I’m turning into a weekend angler. Work is taking up too much time, I can’t really complain. Both lakes are open together until the end of September and there are a great many choices now. Ian is arriving on Thursday most week’s when we do a social, it gives us a great chance to have a look round both lakes before we pick a swim. I still only get down on a Friday afternoon, this time it was around 1630. My youngest daughter was up for another night on the bank.

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The Airfield Lake is not performing that well and the carp in Meadow have not spawned yet, it was definitely worth a go. Only 3 other anglers were fishing, so we headed for The Gap swim again. I very nearly fished the swim next door called The Stumps, but Ian had already had a 30+ and the carp were clearly in front of this swim. I baited up with 10 spombs split over two rods all in the same area. I fished a Ronnie rig on each with a Catalyst wafter on one and a pop up on the other with a small bag was filled with 12mm Smokey and Catalyst with Betafin / Catalyst pellet all soaked in Catalyst Food dip. We will see how the first night pans out.

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Another quiet night on the lake for me. Ian managed a nice twenty just after 10 pm but since then the rods have been silent. There were no fish crashing that I heard last night and with the change in the weather, I feel they will be looking at spawning soon and maybe I’m not quite in the right spot. So I plan to get the Deeper out later and see if I can find something more favourable. The fish are clearly in the weed and that’s what I need to find. I did eventually find a suitable spot and baited up with a few small spombs. As the day progressed, it got hotter, which I will not complain about, but it was nice when the sun falls behind the trees.

Just after 8 pm, Ian landed his third carp of the trip, a nice 29lb 6oz Common.

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Nice one Ian

Once the sun had disappeared behind the clouds, the fish started to show more and my confidence was back up. There was a point in the day where I very nearly moved, but before I had any time to think about it too much, it was already occupied. Let’s hope tonight brings me better fortune.

Surprising we had no action at all -with fish showing as night fell, it was a complete surprise and not even a 6am belter for Ian (like the previous mornings) and with a nice overcast morning, you would’ve thought it would have kicked off.

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Oh well time to head home, its been a great weekend and always nice seeing Ian catch a few; 20, 33, 29. He was well happy and all on Sf Catalyst boilies as well, they certainly love that bait, in the right spot of course.