BLOOD PLASMA: This Blood Plasma is 100% derived from porcine stock and is used for binding and the hardening of baits as well as being attractive to fish in its own right. It has a protein content of 70%. Blood Plasma is a difficult product to source and our supporting image show the true colour of the new stock being delivered.
Use up to 100g per kg in a boilie mix where strong binding is required.
BLOOD POWDER (PURIFIED): At last we have managed to source this spray-dried haemoglobin powder which is derived from Pork and Beef stock. With a protein content of 95% and with 95% digestibility due to its amino acid profile, blood powder is an excellent food source, binder and bait hardener. Adding blood powder to your groundbait or boilie mix will provide colour and an attractive profile to fish. It helps give boilies a deep dark red/brown colour to your bait.
Use up to 100g per kg in your mix but just 50g will enhance the colour of your bait.
I love searching for the unknown carp, it has held me captive on the carp fishing side of fishing ever since I really started fishing. Over the year’s, I have fished lakes with the known named carp and enjoyed the challenge. However, there is no feeling like looking for the unknown carp on really unknown lakes. I haven’t fished as many as I would have liked, in the past 20 years after moving down South. After being told of the Syndicate where I am currently a member of some years back, it has rekindled my love for this type of carp fishing.
I had spent 5 years on the river before that, which was great fun and I think started me back in this direction. I had access to the river with my current Syndicate and the Airfield Lake. This is the part which draws most of my attention – and me away from the odd effort on the river. The real issue is that the lake is only open 6 months of the year. This gives the carp 6 months on natural food each year and you have to tackle this at the beginning of each new season. This is another great challenge. It was originally a fish farm for many years. it then closed down, netted and a few fish walked over the road to another lake (maybe)! There have also been a few fish moving in, so we don’t know really what is in there. We all spot the big carp every now and then, annoyingly in the out of bounds area. This keeps the spark alive and me going back each year. Hopefully, for many years to come.
This year I fitted in a day off each week (varying from Tuesday to Wednesday) to allow myself a day’s fishing on a regular basis. This will be spent on the Estate Lake until the rivers open up again and we will see where we go from there.
After walking around here yesterday, watching a good few carp who were spread well over the whole lake. They were predominately in this area again, I put most of my bucket of pellets & boilies in this area, in the hope to hold the fish until morning. I’m starting to feel they love this area in Spring, as it has the sunlight and avoids the through current from the stream to the outlet.
I have scattered a few 12mm Smokey and Catalyst boilies over where my bags have been placed.
And I’m using a mixture of catalyst pellets and crushed hemp soaked in catalyst particle syrup in each bags, which with an Evo maggot cluster boosted with Catalyst. On the other, I have two Go2 10mm Wafters white choc and a Natural Cat wafter, Ronnie Rig style with a 2oz Zipp lead, just in case I feel the need to recast without a bag. There will be less disturbance and less likely to spook other carp in the area.
As you know, I have talked about before about observation being a key factor, and after a couple of hours, I thought it was time to check out what was going on. There where clearly carp in the swim and the odd liner had confirmed this. I carefully climbed a little way up a tree to give myself a better view and found after watching (for the best part of an hour), the carp were on the top, despite the very overcast day and light drizzle. Unfortunately, coming here light in tackle it was not possible to change over to floater gear. First job on the list when I get home I feel. I could only seat on my chair and hope one of them fancied a feed. By the time 1 o’clock arrived and there was only an hour left to go, it looked pretty inevitable a blank was coming my way. By now there were a few more fish up and about.
But most importantly fishing is about learning and moving forward, which is another part of gaining knowledge about the lake.
I certainly need to do a night at some point, as they may well feed more at night and the floaters will be packed ready for my next session.
I can’t quite believe that it’s taken me this long to get well enough to go night fishing. Anyone who has had this virus will understand. It’s a pretty bad one and it is by no means gone away yet. The previous night’s fishing was the 22nd Feb which was at the end of my week’s trip out. I have done the odd day trip, I just had to get out! It’s been 3 weeks but I was targeting this night, as its the first full night that the Airfield lake is open.
I arrived just after 1230 and proceeded to have a long walkabout (this took up a couple of hours), but well spent (as always). I had no particular interest in any areas on the top lake. Mainly because there where already two other anglers on there and a third would put some more pressure on the lake. What is the point in that, when there are another 40 acres free? There was another guy on the spit between the big lake and the middle one. After looking in the windiest part of the lake, I found a couple of topping carp and this area is known for holding carp. It can be tricky to catch them as they just love the tree line and its certainly not the area to fish at night.
My tactics are as follows; small bags over pellets, over a mixture of crushed hemp and pellets. I would have been introducing a mixture or 12mm Smokey and Catalyst boilies, but they are safe at home in the freezer. Doh! I wasn’t 100% sure I was going to use them anyway. Well, I’m not now!
I’m playing around with the Evo maggot cluster and other parts of their range. They are very natural in looks and touch. I think they are going to be very productive here. I have soaked mine in Catalyst boost spray over the past few months to give them that extra boost.
The night and day past with no action and only a couple of carp spotted. The next day was a pretty wet and windy day, it was spent mostly in the bivvy. I was really sure I would get a take on the left-hand rod during the day.
I had rebaited both rods at just after 6am in the hope fresh baits would do the trick.
I found a different spot to fish on my left-hand rod for the last night. I topped up the swim with more crushed hemp and pellets as the old ones would have broken down and been mopped up by small fry.
I settled down to a very wet and windy night ahead and discovered I would be eating my meatballs, sauce and pasta with my swiss army knife! I had also forgotten my cutlery, survived without cutting my tongue off.
I awoke to a clear blue sky and sunshine – what a difference a day can make! It’s a shame I need to be home early, it would be nice to see the lake with some sun on it. I’m not back here for two weeks, the nights still need to draw out a bit. This will give me a chance to play on my little Estate lake. Unfortunately, the buzzers were silent overnight, there’s always next time.
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