I’m counting down the day’s until this lake is open, it just spectacular 64 Acres 7 island and secret bay’s to much out of bounds water.
The view of part of the from the New Forest
There’s an unknown about of carp in here and not much information on the size of the carp.
Roll on the middle of march.
Richard
Last weekend for me on this lake, back on the other syndicate water next weekend.
Location – School Lake
Hours Fished – 5rs
With the prospects of no fishing at the weekend, due to another horrendous storm pushing through, I’m totally convinced that it’s a waste of my time. Before or after would be better, preferably before at this time of the year!
With that in mind, I’m on the School Lake again. After yesterday blank and today’s cold n wet conditions, it could be another blank, but I’m not giving up that easy. I’ve been hunting out the Carp with the Deeper and I may well have tracked some down. After 45 minutes of searching, I just need to convince them to feed, which may not be that simple.
With that in mind, I’m using tiny PVA bags with a scattering of Catalyst pellets, crushed boilies and both rods on pop-ups.
At around noontime and after the rain had gone away, I moved to another spot, this time of the front of the island and within minutes I was away but within minutes I had lost it. Not helpful. However, on a positive note, my thought process was correct on where the fish may be. That rod was soon back out and definitely hopefully another take soon.
There were only 20 minutes left on the clock before pack up time, so it’s looking like another blank. It’s a real shame I lost one, but with no other signs of carp, I stayed put in this swim with the hopes I would get another chance, but it wasn’t to be.
Until next time
Richard
But will turn out warmer.
Richard
Location – School Lake
Hours Fished – 5rs
With a gap between the storms, the next few days are looking quite nice. I even caught up on my gardening jobs! This is helpful and will give me a few more days free before Spring kicks in.
I’m out on the school lake today. It was a very hard frost last night and now a fresh breeze running down the lake. After looking for signs of carp and there being none; I’ve hopefully set myself up in a swim which has produced me fish before and I also get a reasonable view of the lake. I can move on quickly if or when I spot any signs of carp. There is another angler up by the island so that rules that spot out, we shall just have to keep my eyes open and fingers crossed today, I think.
All I’ve done is put two bags on, filled with Catalyst pellets and I’m fishing a 12mm CC pop up. There is a small scattering of broken boilies over each of the bags, once I’ve dropped them in the margins.
With no action by noon, I just had to move on a bit further up the bank and see how things go. It’s certainly hard going at the moment, but lovely and warm in the sunshine still, which is definitely a bonus.
After spotting a showing carp, I was off down further along and quickly flicked the rods out. Within 10 minutes, I had what I thought was a take, but it was just a heavy liner and that was that – time for home.
Until next time
Richard
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