After spotting some fishing at the back of the island last trip out and dropping some bait in before I headed home.
And also fancying a bit of a change and with plenty of signs of fish moving and to be honest, the main lake looks like it’s finally woken up.
I flicked out a godman pva bag out filled with broken boilies and pellets with some bloodworm liquid. I also scattered a couple of handfuls of Boilies over the area.
And sat back and enjoyed the sunset and the fish topping all over this area of the lake.
With more liners than even before, I was very surprised to not get a carp. I have a very strong feeling that I have found where the roach group together and there are some monsters in this lake. I shall at some stage be after.
After the excitement of last week, it was quite nice to be sitting on the warm sunshine on the lake again. I had a good walk around for about and hour and a half, as the place was more or less empty. This is a great opportunity to have a look in all those secret spots and drop a bit of bait in. I am not a fan of baiting when other people are on the lake, in fact I find this quite rude.
For some reason, I just felt that this swim was the right choice again and flicked the baits out on the same spots, with just a few boilies over the top.
Unfortunately, no joy for me on the fish front, however I did find some fish feeding in an area that I hadn’t before and I scattered some bait around before I left the lake.
What a week I have had! My car got hit, I was sick and then the car broken down, as this was my three things, my week started to get better. More Summit Tackle arrived and I got my Katran UK deal sorted and a nice package arrived – a Fishspy arrived for me to have a play with and a I had a 3 day weekend. I just had to go fishing and the wind was pushing from the north again, I headed straight for the swims on the back of the wind and my best option was one of the island swims.
And with plenty of sunshine forecast and despite the frosty nights we have been having, I was feeling quite confident.
As the video shows, the storm didn’t help. However, I was still feeling that when the fish feed, I would be in the right area. I was fishing near the overhanging trees off two of the islands and an interception route out of the sanctuary area.
Both areas had been baited up with half a kilo of chopped boilies with a small Godman Pva mesh bag filled with micro pellets and soaked in oil.
It was a funny day, what with the storm and then swallows & and the martins skimming across the lake. I also heard cuckoos about.
New Summit Tackle buzz bars and stabilizer, looking the part.
The night was fun as well, 2 dropped fish in open water around a snag I never new was there. This is starting to become a bit of a habit and not a very good one, as you can imagine, am pretty fed up this morning. Onwards and upwards as they say.
However, did get some very nice photos and hopefully still time to bag a fish.
Despite the wind changing direction to a warm S/W blow.
They where the only runs I had, just a shame I did not get them in the net. Bait & location working well, luck not so good.
With the wind still pushing down from the North and sunny intervals over the past few days, I felt that the back of the wind was the place to be.
I had a good look around in that area and finally ended up in the same swim as my last session. Therefore, I was going to approach the swim in the same way.
One rod was along the left hand margins and the other, just on the margin shelf in front of me. I was going to be setting up back from the waters edge again.
I scattered a good quality of boilies and fished with a solid Godman Angling Pva bag filled with broken boilies and liquid bloodworm.
This produced a couple of runs last time out.
Much to my amazement and with a few liners in to darkness, I awoke at around 5am with not a single fish, which was quite a shock.
I am out for a quick night this trip and unfortunately the lovely sunny day has gone, with a cold easterly replacing it. However that sun would have done the lake a power of good and there are plenty of fish moving around when I arrived.
I am only fishing the bottom of the margin self in this swim, as it’s used as a patrol route and I have set my bivvy up well back from the waters edge and have my rod’s quite low – to keep a low profile.
The sun was just going down as I was setting up and looked quite amazing.
With one low double in the night, it was time to head home.
