Avoiding the 27-degree heat this year is my goal. For fishing, unfortunately, it means getting roasted when gardening. Hopefully, I can start early some days.

I decided that doing a quick night on Monday would be a good start. This would avoid the beginning of the heatwave, and hopefully, the carp sense it coming and have a feed up. I’m hoping to get back Friday just as it turns cooler for the same reason.

I had my normal Monday gardening jobs done by noon and was soon home packing the car with just enough kit for the night. It didn’t look any different from normal.

I thought I would take a drive around Meadow Lake on the way and, if I fancied a swim, I would stay. This is part of my summer approach until September comes around, and then I will focus more on Airfield Lake.

I was extremely surprised to find only three other anglers fishing, two in day swims, not night swims, which a few love to spend the day in. This puts a spanner in the system.

I could go anywhere except for a swim called Siblings, which I didn’t fancy because of the heat factor.

Now, where to go? I don’t like looking at people across the lake, which is why I love Airfield Lake so much; they’re miles away even if they are opposite you.

I checked the forecast and looked around for about 45 minutes. The wind was due to blow a gentle breeze from the southwest. A couple of swims were baking hot. I didn’t fancy where I had spent most of the winter, which left me with three choices: one with absolutely no wind, another with the wind pushing away, and the final one with a nice gentle breeze on my face and plenty of shade. Yep, that had to be the one for me today.

I’d seen a few carp cruising around out in the middle and felt a bait put on the edge of a bar and one just off in the silty area would be a good bet. I set up my marker rod, and blasted it out in the direction of a perfect area, wondering how the weed would be this year. I’ve not heard much news on the grapevine so far this year. I was pleasantly surprised to find that gravel spot on the first cast – result! I got my Spomb rod out and leaded about either side of my marker rod. I was pleasantly surprised to only find a small amount of weed and a good amount of gravel. I would be fishing both rods out to this feature, one just on the gravel and the other just in the silty area. The rods would be about a rod length apart and about a wrap difference in distance. I baited quite heavily with 15mm Classic Corn boilies and would fish 20mm wafters over the top.

This gave me a good chance of a pickup sometime over the next 17 hours.

At 4:45, the right-hand rod rattled off into what I thought was a carp, then a tench, and then back to a carp in the margins when it looked up at me as well. As you can imagine, the fight was not that spectacular until under the rod tip. Even then, the fish went straight into the net, and at that time of the morning, I’m not going to complain.

22lb 1oz Common

With a newly done hook and bait, the rod was back out there. The carp were now showing about 20 feet to the left of my baited area. I’m thinking there’s a good chance of another bite before the sun burns this mist off and then the 27 degrees will arrive. Not my sort of day.

At 7:32, the misty morning had passed, and the clear skies had arrived. It’s slow pack-up time for me. I’d like to be off the lake by 9:00 and cutting grass by 11:00 today. I’ve seen a few carp topping this morning quite left of my spot now. They have clearly moved off that area. I don’t feel there’s much point in a recast at this late stage, as I’m about to start packing down.

That’s it. My kit is dry, and I’m off home. 27 degrees is way too hot for me.

Until next time.

Richard

 

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