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Trip 38 – Carp Fishing – 2017

Posted on May 5, 2017 by richardhandel

With yet another Bank Holiday weekend upon us – I felt the best option would be to get a night in fishing on the Saturday night. After all the Friday night angler’s would have done thier stuff and I found that when I arrived at about 1230, there were only 4 people about including me, which was fantastic.

With the wind now blowing from the South East (which meant it still had a chill in it) but it was so much better than the Northlys we had last week. With this in mind, I didn’t fancy facing the wind, not just yet any how. I spent the first hour checking out the areas of the lake which were at the back of this wind.

I put out a good load of my Pellets mix, loaded up two bags of pellets, added some Tiger Nut Liquid in one and food dip in the other. I was interested to see which one the fish preferred, both rod’s had the same Ronnie Rig with a Frank Warwick Masala pop up on.

All set for a fish or two. As I drifted off to sleep, I was feeling very confident and hopefull. I had a completely uninterrupted night’s sleep, with a couple of bleeps to wake me up nicely at 0730. Now that was a suprise. Maybe the wind change and the temperature rise had finally moved them out into the main body of the lake.

I shall take a look before I head home and we shall see which area we are in next time.

Until then

Richard

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Trip 37 Carp Fishing 2017

Posted on May 2, 2017 by richardhandel

After losing a nice fish on my day session, I was not detered and had a good look about before I headed home to collect the kid’s. I even chucked out some bait in some likely spots.

With the househusband bit done, I was on my way back to the lake again. I had a look in the luckily spots and a couple more, in the end I settled on this one. With both rod’s set up with bags and my Pellet mixture, I was all done for another night on the bank.

By 1130 I had managed to get plenty of liners and a couple of 10 lbers, which I was just hoping would go away – which they did. Around 0115, the left hand rod was off, however this time with a much better hard fighting fish on and with a long but easy fight another fish was in the net.

30lb 2oz of stunning Common, that will do me and the second one in the space of two days.

I rebait my rod and flicked it back out on the spot and then got my head down. Within the hour it was off again with another common around the 16lb mark.

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Another bag was made up and put on the spot again. I was off to the land of nodd again.

At 0530 the same one was off and I was yet again, playing a very hard fight carp and once I had avoided the tree line margin stags, it was under my control and soon in the net.

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25lb 2 oz Common

What a night that turned out to be! Would you belive it, there was a hard frost on the ground, my net was frozen to the ground every time I landed a fish, which added to the fun.

Frosty brolly and a very cold pack up.

Until Next time

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Trip 36 Carp Fishing 2017

Posted on May 1, 2017 by richardhandel

With the big change in the weather and a week of frosts here and snow up North. I spent the first hour of my limited time here (when the kids are at school) looking around the lake and getting a feel for things. I ended up setting on a nice swim at the back of the wind, the sun was directly shining on the margins. This is in my belief, that with the extra day light hours and sunny days, together with the the frosts and the cold winds, the lake temperature should be at a steady level and the fish will continue to feed more.

Looks lovely and warm but there is a real chill in that wind.

I just baited both rod’s with pva bags filled with catalyst/Betafin Pellets soaked in liquids (as before) and added some catalyst Food Dip for an extra boost. One rod was fished on a pop and the other on a wafter with paste wrapped around it – no other free offerings were put out.

At about 1215 my left hand was off and I was into to a fish, unfortunately it made is way to a small island which had a nice overhanging bush on it. The fish managed to shed the hook, the safety clips did their job and drop the lead, but probably too late. I have just over an hour and a bit to make amends.

It was not to be

Until next time

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Trip 35 – Carp Fishing – 2017

Posted on April 30, 2017 by richardhandel

When I am travelling down to the lake, I try to think where would the fish be? I take into account the wind, weather and any information I have gathered from my last few trips. Well, this time I was completely at a loss to where that may be. So I planned a good look around the whole complex, this took me just under two hours. I was still not really feeling the love anywhere and I had only seen a few fishy signs.

I settled on one of the point swims which is on the middle section of the complex, as it just felt the most fishy swim about. I got the kit to the swim and as I was still mulling things over when a fish topped along the dividing back and then another one in the far corner. These are two spots that I am unable to fish, I did feel that I was closer to the fish than any other swim.

All set up, I got the kettle on and settled down for a bit of afternoon/early evening fish spotting.

As the sun was setting over the lake, I tucked myself up in my bag and drifted off to sleep. Just before midnight, I was woken up by an absolute screaming run on the righthand rod and after a hairy fight – the fish tried to go into both of the bays next to me and under a overhanging bush, it was finally in the net.

What a stunner all 33lb 5oz. With the photos done and the fish safely returned to its home. I then recast another pva bag filled with Spotted Fin Catalyst & Betafin pellets soaked in both Betafin & minaminos, with a Frank Warwick Masala pop mounted on a long shank turning hook, tied to Semi stiff Fin skin. I got back in my bag to dream of Carp.

That morning alarm call comes all to soon, time to pack up.

Until next time

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Trip 34 Carp Fishing 2017

Posted on April 27, 2017 by richardhandel

What a beautiful little corner of paradise I am in today! The lake was still fishing very hard, so I thought I would try something different. I had been dropping small bits of bait in this area on and off over the past month. Thinking ahead for the odd day session however, why not do a night? Its well known that if the fish are on the snags, they will venture out after dark, (that was my thought process) and with quite a few liners in the night, I was feeling confident, unfortunately not to be this time, we shall just keep on at it.