I had intended to fish Saturday night. However, with the weather forecasting rain and both myself and my friend, not be able to arrive until noon time. We didn’t fancy getting completely soaked to the skin. So we both stayed at home and had some fun with our family’s and for me that was a trip to the theatre to see ‘There be Monsters’ and my youngest loved it.
Anyway here we are on a nice calm Monday morning down the lake again, after those carp. Can’t believe it’s so mild and we are still in November. If this carries on, not sure if I will get Pike fishing.
I am in the same swim as before and using the same approach as normal.
I was getting a bit worried I had selected the wrong swim again, when a small common of around 12 lb saved the day.
After yesterday’s disaster, there was only one thing to do. Come back and get revenge – well hopefully. It’s been sometime since I have lost a big fish and it’s still hurting today. You have to move on and catch another one as quick as possible. Then all is forgotten, well sort of, it helps.
I have gone back in the same swim as I am feeling very confident with this area of the lake.
The sun finally arrived, unfortunately, because of the angle of the swim, I don’t get the sunshine, however the margins do.
Perfect spot for a bait. By 12.45, I was thinking oops the revenge maybe on me. I had until 14.00 before I needed to reel in, so I had my fingers crossed.
Today’s trip is another session along the tree lined margin bank. I have noticed that things are slowing down on the lake and this has been backed up by other angler’s.
I am feeling quite confident that there will start to be more action along this bank, as the fish move out of open water and head for the safety of the tree’s and warmer margin bank.
I have adapted my stick mix for the winter, which I will get round to posting a blog on that soon.
According to the weather man it’s going to be sunny today.
Not quite there yet, as it’s pouring with rain and my coat is in the car – oh well I will dry out when the sun does arrive.
Well I am truly gutted and more, as I have had my first hook pull for sometime and the power of the fish tells me it was certainly a good one, aargh.
I have moved swim to where I had the 27 lb from the other day and still not happy. The sun has come out, so at least I will dry out.
Unfortunately, even with a change of swims my luck was not on my side today.
Over the next couple of trips I will be concentrating on the margin snags. I heard the other night a few fish along that bank and I feel it’s time to have another go.
All very close quarters fishing and an amazing adrenaline rush when you get a take, let’s hope so.
After about 1 hour, the rod bust into life with a very unhappy carp attached. It was doing it’s best to gain some ground and get back under the trees and there was no way was I letting that happened. After a few bids for freedom from the fish, which included a pretty big attempt that nearly had the fish out in the main lake. This would have been a disaster, as the trees stick out about 30 ft or so and I’m not sure if the fish would have got itself round the tip of the trees. Once under a bit more control, the fish just plodded under my rod tip in the deep margins until it finally slipped over the cord.
27 lb 6oz of stunning Mirror Carp.
Once all the photos and videos had been done and with 3 hour’s still to go, I moved onto my next swim which was some 40 yards down the bank.
This swim has had a well needed haircut.
I used the same tactics as before, a few handfuls of chopped up Bait-tech Poloni Boilies with a 14 mm pop up and a small Godman Angling mesh bag filled with micro – my new stick mix, that I have made up using Bait-tech products and some of their micro pellet range.
Unfortunately, that was the only fish of the day, but who cares? It was a beauty.
As the weather has been perfect for a couple of days, I was surprised to find only one other angler on the lake. Was this a bad thing or a lucky start? Even though the wind had been pushing down the lake into the bay area, that I had fished before and knowing that there had been someone in this swim since last Monday. I still felt that this was my best option. There were waves on the lake which were pushing down and crashing into the reed’s. I thought, there just has to be fish still there.
And the corner looked just perfect.
Despite the angler pressure, the incredible numbers of Roach and Rudd in here. I felt that the bay rod would have a good amount of Poloni boilies scattered around with my ground bait mix. I spombed out 8 loads and fished a 14mm poloni pop up over the spot.
The right hand rod was cast over to the same margin but along near a gap which leads to the sanctuary area of the lake.
This rod was a single 18mm poloni pop up with a Godman Angling verseacat filled with Bait-tech Hemp oil. This added a tiny bit of attraction to the area because of the possibility that there may be too much bait out there or the fish had been hammered. I thought this would be the best approach. I didn’t feel that I had over done the bait as my mixture is pretty much all ground up.
And is mostly for attraction and a small amount of feed, for the Carp.
It was a pretty grey day and looking very wintry however, I was certainly not dressed like it was winter!
Much to my amazement, other than a couple of beeps that was it. With the sun coming up, it was time to pack up and head home.
Just an amazing time of the morning to be out there.
