Trip 3 Carp Fishing- 2020

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Location – School Lake

Hours Fished – 4hrs

With my gardening job canceled today and unfortunately, the Perch bait is still in the freezer. I quickly organized the carp kit, which is pretty simple as I keep it all sorted and ready to go. I just need to grab the bait and as I had received my order yesterday from SF with the new Classic Corn Boilies, I just had to give them a go.

I arrived down there to find a couple of guys fishing and a work party going on down the shallow end. I headed down towards the island, as this had to be my best option. I catapulted some crushed CC out around the island and fish both pop-ups, one CC & PPS as I was interested in how they performed as hook baits against each other.

I was soon rewarded with my first take of the year and my first fish on the CC bait, it was a good fight which was over quickly and back safely.

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Lovely Common

With the rod back out, I finished sorting the swim out and got the brolly up as a windbreak, it was pretty blowy out here today.

The second take happened out of the blue on the right rod, not long after a single bleep on the left rod, which I was expecting to fly off. After a very hard fight, which was a Common, that just wouldn’t give up in the margins.

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19lbs 8oz Common

I flicked the rod out on the spot and topped the swim-up again with more CC. I was hoping to bait up a couple of spots on the way back, I also moved the other rod, as it hadn’t received any action.

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Unfortunately, the next take took me straight into an underwater snag that I was unaware of. This is never going to help and despite my best effort, the hook pulled out and the fish was gone.