UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

After getting  a text from a friend saying do you fancy doing a social at the weekend and the wife say yep it’s OK for Friday night – we have a 50th birthday party to go to on Saturday night.

I let my friend pick the favourable area of the lake as he arrived way before me and it was just perfect.  The wind was blowing nicely on to this bank.  It was the perfect area and after a good lead around, I soon found a couple of perfect spots and flicked a bag on them both, with a few catalyst boilies over the top.  Within the hour I was off and into a nice common.

That will do me as a starter.  I re-baited that rod and settled down to a few glasses of wine and a natter, before I knew it, it was time to get in the bag.  Even before I had put a foot in the bag, I was in to another fish.  This tipped the scales at just over 17 lb.  As the night progressed a very large thunderstorm went around the lake but luckily not really over it, as I continued to catch through the night.

Through the night I had 5 fish

What an amazing light show!

Resulting in this lovely 27 lb+ Common and not long after that another Common showing 19 lb 14 oz on the scales.

Now, that was a stonking nights fishing and not long after that, I was away again with my 8th fish of the trip and all in less than 12 hrs.  This was another common at 19 lb 6 oz and as the morning progressed I banked another one at 20 lbs!

I ended up banking a total of 10 fish and losing 2, what a perfect way to start my week’s break away camping with the kids.

All these fish were taken over a small baited area, using catalyst boilies.  Fishing bags filled with Pellet over the top, in conjunction with a Natural or a FW Pops ups Masla pop up.

Until next time

Richard

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With a couple of family things going on this week & weekend, I am limited to Saturday night only.  This is not a bad thing and always nice to get an extra couple of hour’s fishing in the morning.

There where still a few people about when I arrived – some were doing the whole weekend, others were just starting to pack away.  As luck would have it, no one had fished the swim that I fished the other night and with a very strong wind pushing on to the bank, I felt that it had to be my best option.  There was on angler on the island which meant I was unable to put my right hand rod on my normal spot, so I took the opportunity to fish to my left and find two new spots.  This swim covers an amazing amount of water and a high percentage is over looked by anglers, especially the clearer on area’s.

I found a couple of very nice spots and put a few pouches filled with Catalyst boilies around the marker float. I tied up some new Ronnie Rig‘s and put on Natural Pop Ups and flicked them both out.

With the rain finally passing and the sun came out, it was quite pleasant.  The wind was still pushing very hard on to this bank, it was not long before I had my first take which unfortunately found one of the many under water obstacles.  Oh well, out with another bag and cold pizza for lunch.

2 of the 3 fish that I have had this afternoon – not the biggest I have ever had but in shallow water, these things but up an amazing fight.

As the evening progressed the sun was setting, the rods where off again and oh this one feels better.  You can never tell but once in the margins, I could tell by the way it was holding the bottom, after another hard fight, it rolled over the cord.

A nice golden 22lb 1oz common and a sunset to match.

What a pleasure to be outside.  Oddly and handy the night was fish free, until this colourful surprise at 6 am.

I didn’t weight it but it probably was around 14 lb, very short and chunky fish, did not know that was in here!

With the sun coming up over the forest, it would soon be time to head home for a family day of fun.

Now that was an action filled 12 hours, can’t wait for my next trip out.

Until next time

Richard

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This trip was going to be a social at the airfield lake with Rob.  However, after getting a message on Wednesday from another syndicate member, saying the fish are spawning and neither myself or Rob wanted to fish for spawning Carp (this isn’t very good the fish’s welfare).  So plan B was put in place and I find myself fishing the idyllic Holbrook Millpond again – this is never a bad thing.

As I arrived at dusk, after a merry trip round the M25, by the time my kit was sorted out, it was pitch black.  Rob offered to put my baits out with the boat, this made sense, as you really need to be fishing as close as possible to the far bank.  There was no way I could do that in the dark. All rod’s were fished with nature pop ups, a load of chopped boilies and pellets over the top.

Night 1

Sometime around 04.30, the right hand rod was off and not very long after that, my first mill pond fish was  out, not the biggest but a start.  That rod was put out again and Rob came down the bank and to ask if I could take a photo for him of a 20+ Common, with this done, we had a brew, a quick chat and we were back off to our swims.

Around noon, we both reeled in, had a good look round the lake and had a brew in the club house.  I decided on the positions of my rod’s for the coming two night’s.

I would be fishing a small set of pads, the far margins and a set to the right of me.  These areas where baited with a mix of chopped & whole boilies, catalyst & Betafin Pellet  soaked in minaminos / Betafin.

The weather had warmed up a bit but there was plenty of cloud about, we were very confident.

As the second day came to a close, it was looking like the fish had changed their feeding pattern to the nights.  We had not had a touch between us all day until at 22.30 and Rob banked the resident grass carp.

The night passed with both of us loosing fish and much more favourable weather conditions for a fish in the daylight hours.

Unfortunately and for no reason, that we can come up with, both myself and Rob where unable to bag any more fish, they just switched off .

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Richard

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