UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip No 76 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on November 15, 2015 by richardhandel

With my eldest away at Brownie camp and the wife away with the youngest at the mother-in-laws. I am able to get away for another Saturday night, no dancing rubbish on the TV for me tonight.

I have opted for a small point which sticks out into the lake, this allows me to fish along the right hand margin. I must stress that I am only underarm flicking the bait along some 8 ft from the swim and 4 ft off the tree line as anything else would be very dangerous to the fish’s well fare at night. Safety first and catching second.

I have made a small change this time and I am only fishing ground up boilies. I have something like 3 kgs and will split this over both rod’s.

The other rod, I have tried to think a bit out of the box in this swim, as normally everyone is fishing to the island and I know that no fish have come from here for sometime. However, they do move up and down this margin. I know this as to the right of me is my normal day swim I have been fishing. So, I have flicked the marker around about 20/30 yards off the bank and found a nice flat lightly silted area as I did not wish to fish both rod’s close in. There is a nice overhanging tree to the right that looks very appealing.

I feel this a bit too close and could be problematic at night, if I had a bait under it and also it would be in the swim and get disturbed, when I catch fish on the other rod.

The rain arrived as the weather man predicted and once it had passes through, you get that fantastic light only autumn brings.

Truly stunning yellow.

As night fell, I had my first bream of the night. Joy.

Amazingly, the night was completely uneventful, with not a single bleep. All that happened was a considerable temperature change. This resulted in thick fog at one point in the night, which turned into a very misty morning.

This has mostly gone by the time I stuck my head out the bag.

I re-baited both rod’s around 1030, in the hope of a day time fish. The left had rod I moved closer to the snags as it was now day time.

At 1 pm the left-hand rod was off and diving under the trees, as I picked the rod up the tip immediately went under the water and gently got the fish out. The water was getting clearer and the swim stuck out into the lake beyond the tree’s. I could see the fish next to me battling to get back under the trees and I also could see and feel the size. It was amazing to think that I may well be playing my 4 th thirty of the month!

Once the fish was finally in open water it was just a matter of time before it slipped over the cord and another epic snag battle was over.

34lb 1oz, 4th thirty of October

I rebaited and flicked it down to the same spot.

Bucket Time

By 1600 hrs and no signs of any other fish and I need to get my kit sorted out for a 4 night session later on this week with my friend Rob Nunn from Bait-Tech. I started to pack up .

Till next time
Richard

Trip No 75 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on November 10, 2015 by richardhandel

I am back along the tree lined bank, amongst the snags, as I don’t want to ignore this area. I will switch between this area and the top bay with all the island’s, as I feel both areas should produce fish through the winter months and I need to fit some pike fishing as well.

Single rod time

Looking very fishy in the sunshine.

I am using my normal tactic of broken poloni boilies with a 14mm pop up. As I am lowering the bait down, I am using a big Godman Pva mesh bag filled with micro pellets soaked in Krill and Tuna oil.

Unfortunately, it was not to be today.

Until till next time.
Richard

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Trip No 74 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on November 9, 2015 by richardhandel

On my last trip, I had decided to keep an eye & ear out on the small bay area next to me. This area only has day swims, with a couple of small islands and plenty of overhanging trees and snags.

I believed that they were behind the second island, as I could hear the fish but was unable to see any ripples from my swim (that I was in before). This has no access to the area. When I arrived, in sat looking over the bank wondering if that was where the fish had been and as luck would have it a nice fish poked it’s head out!

One rod was cast over to the side of the island with a small Godman Pva mesh bag filled with micro pellets, broken boilies soaked in Krill and Tuna oil. With a Versacast cast hooked on filled with oil.

The other rod was placed along the margins, under a lovely overhanging bush. This was directly in the morning sun light. I did another bag just the same as the other rod but bigger

I am planning on staying here for the whole of my 4 hour trip, instead of moving on as I would like to get a feel for this area. It doesn’t get fished a great deal and I am sure it had a few good fish hiding.

At about 1045 the right hand rod burst into life with a very unhappy carp doing it’s best to get back under the overhanging tree. At one point it was doing a very good job, however with a bit of side strain and walking slowly along the bank, the fish was in open water and under more control. It did try for the margin snags but unfortunately for the fish, the fight was all in my favour now.

The tails on these fish give them cracking power.

It tipped the scales at 19 lb 15 oz.

This area is so full of options.

Until next time
Richard

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Trip No 73 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on November 8, 2015 by richardhandel

Down on the Meadows lake for my Sunday night session. After a look round in the swims that are on the back of the wind, as the last few days there has been a chill in the air.

I quit fancy this one that gives me access to a bay area with overhanging trees and a gap throw to the santry area and also with the sun and no wind on that bank, I felt that would be a perfect area. With the night temperature not dropping that much I am hoping the fish will feed, as the lake has been fishing not that we’ll over the past few days.

The righthand rod was cast into the gap that’s in the middle of this photo, with a Godman Pva Versacast filled with Bait-tech krill and Tuna oil and 5 spombs of a mix of groundbait and poloni boilies.

The other rod the same, just fished into the bay more

By the reed’s some 70yards away.

It was then time to soaked up the afternoon sun.

At around 10 pm the left hand rod was off and attached to a good old lump, that was kiting to the left and if I was not careful would be round the back of the small island to the right of me, I started pump the rod hard and the fish moved more into open water and a bit more under control and I new there was a good chance this would be much second thirty of the week, once under the rod tip is was just a matter of time before he fish was betten and slopped over the cord.

And sure enough in the net was another 33lb 1oz mirror, what a week this was turning out to be.

I recast the rod after reshaping the hook and with a fresh 14mm poloni pop up on , the rod was back on the spot again.

With the normal interrupted by the bream. That was it and the clock sprung into life at 0545 signaling it was time to be on my home.

Until next time
Richard

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Trip No 72 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on November 7, 2015 by richardhandel

I have had a double bonus this weekend, as the mother-in-law has offered to take the kid’s to school Monday morning and the wife agreed to me also doing Saturday night, wow thanks folks.

I have settled for a swim that I have not fished before, as the big strong S/W wind have stopped blowing for the last three days and the hot swims are still not free and I would have thought the fish would have moved out of that area by now. This swim give me access to an area of open water that can only be fished from here, the down side is I am on the south bank and the North / North easterly wind is pushing this way, however still very warm for this time of the year, so I am feeling very confident.

The righthand rod was lowered under the overhanging tree, which I will move out a bit at night, ,for the safety of the fish.

The left rod is fished this side of a gravel bar just on the bottom of the slop where the silt starts.

I have balled up 8 balls which I will put in the spomb with a handful of 14mm poloni boilies.

My latest toy is a boilies chopper.

I will do a review once I have tested it for a month. Bung a hand full of boilies wind the handle, job done.

Both rod’s have poloni pop ups on with mimicker leadcore leader.

Time to sit back and have a brew.

The first night pasted with only a couple of tench on the margin rod and no action on the distance rod, other than a few bleeps.

Conditions are still looking favorable and I am going to sit today out here, I have topped the swim up with more groundbait and broken boilies.

And we will see what today brings.

Nice flat spot let’s hope it’s the carp and not the bream.

With the departure of all the other angler’s by Sunday lunchtime, I was feeling more confident, unfortunately all that happened was the bream moved in and no sleep was had until 0230 ish, joy.