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Trip 54 Carp Fishing – 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by richardhandel

Location – Airfield Lake

Hours Fished – 67 Hours

With only a few weeks left of the season on the Airfield lake, I’m back down despite the North Easterly wind blowing across the lake. After standing at the windy end of the lake, I was soon at the other end. The sun was shining brightly here. After seeing a carp crashing out, it just had to be worth a go and by the time I had set up there had been a few more carp showing themselves, it just had to be the right area.

I spombed out my usual amount of bait, as the water temperature were still pretty high and then set about getting the baits on the spots. I was feeling pretty confident in my choice of swim and we shall see how the first night goes.

The night past with only a single bleep, there was a couple of carp crashing, this kept me on edge most of the night.

With a generous sunrise over the whole forest, there was a prospect of a sunny day. Hopefully the wind will pick up, otherwise it’s going to be hard going. I’ve put out 8 large spombs in the hope of drawing the carp in and get myself a take or two!

Another night down and still blanking.

I’m going to get my thinking hat on today. As I know, I’m not that far away from the carp. A fellow member has had a few from the corner of the island and I’m still hearing them at night. I just don’t think they moving towards me into the area where I’ve been very successful before.

After a lot of thought and spotting a couple of fish show further out, I decided that one rod need to be put out there. The next question was do I move the other rod off the baited spot, but before I could come to a conclusion, the baited spot rod pulled away into a steady take just after 1330 and I proceeded to play the fish into the Nsr50.

11lb 15oz Common

I was very relieved to still be continuing my none blanking spell and another carp was added to the list.

Now my decision was clearly made, I would leave a rod on the baited are and the other one was definitely being put out further.

I rebaited both rods and topped up the baited area with 6 spombs. I also stuck out a few boilies over the other rod.

It was yet another bleep free night and I felt that I had been lucky to catch the carp yesterday afternoon.

Until next time

Richard

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Posted on October 28, 2020 by richardhandel

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Posted on October 28, 2020 by richardhandel

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What beam should you use while fishing with a Deeper sonar (PRO/PRO+/CHIRP+)

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Trip 53 Carp Fishing – 2020

Posted on October 27, 2020 by richardhandel

Location – Airfield Lake

Hours Fished – 72 Hours

For this week, we’ve decided to head back over the others side of the lake and fish on the side of the wind. It’s due to swing around to the north west and hopefully it’ll drag some of the carp out of the sanctuary area into the main body of the lake. The only flaw in our plan could be the big south westerly that is due to pick up a blow all night long, it should swing to the NW by noontime. As long as the carp haven’t been pushed into the opposite side of the lake and decide to stay. The weather front did come with a lot of rain and I’ve found that the carp don’t like this on here. So, I’m hoping they stay in the sanctuary until this afternoon and then my swim will have settled down after the 5 kilo of bait I stuck out.

Ian had pitch up to the right of me, unfortunately he arrived just before the last of the rain pushed through, he was lucky and got his bivvy up before it started to rain.

It was a bleep free in my swim all night, the lake had been flat calm and starry. I did hear the odd fish crashing about. The pressure had gone up considerably and I felt that I needed the wind back, a spot of rain would help. This was forecast to happen later on this afternoon; it was going to be sunny and clear sky’s until then. This was not giving me much confidence for a morning take, but as we’ve not fished in October before, you can’t really tell how the season change has effected them. I didn’t fish this lake last year at this time of year, as I had moved off way before now to the Meadow Lake.

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve felt that daylight takes were more possible, fingers crossed for one this morning.

I changed over to fresh hook baits just after 11am as there was a couple of hours worth of rain coming. I felt there could be a chance of a take after it had passed, I would then bait up for the night. The rain arrived just after 1pm and slowed down just after 3pm. My first take happened just after 3.30 to my left hand rod and after a straight forward fight (this swim is so much easier than last weeks), the carp was in the net.

20lb 15oz Common

Perfect start and with the snaps done, its was soon back in the lake. With a fresh bait on, it was the perfect time to top the swim up with more bait.

The second take was well into dark at 21.45, the right rod ripped off with another lovely looking Airfield Common.

23lb 14oz Common

Lucky for me it was another straight forward fight into the Nsr50. With the snaps done, the fish was back home and the rod was back on the spot.

The next take was moments after I had typed the above paragraph! The left rod slowly pulled away out into open water and after some persuasion, it was coming my way. It had a close call with the line on the other rod, but I was soon playing the carp out under the rod tip and soon slipped it into the waiting net.

21lb 12oz Common

That was nice going and the rod was back out. It was time for a brew and then get my head down, that was it for the night and a lovely sunrise again over the forest with a mackerel sky.

A couple more anglers turned up this morning, which is nice to see and will help get the bait into the lake. The wind is from the NW today and it’s a gentle breeze but it’s overcast, which hopefully these conditions will bring a daytime take or two. I’m going to top up the swim just after lunchtime and hopefully produce another afternoon take.

The last night passed without a single bleep. I’m sitting waiting for another amazing sunrise over the forest and hoping for an early morning take. This would make it my 100th carp of the year. However, we haven’t had any morning takes this trip between Ian and myself, so I think it will be very unlikely, but you never know with this carp fishing game.