As the weather is looking great again, I can’t resist another trip out on the lake today. I have changed areas this time, to one of my favourite swims on this lake as the conditions are perfect.
Both rod’s have been put out along the tree line with Poloni pop ups and springers.
Perfect tree line
There is only one problem and that is sometimes these fish will not come out from under the tree’s. I have put out 2 small pouch fulls of the broken poloni boilies in the hope this will bring the fish out from under their hidey hole.
It was looking very moody before I was off. No fish today.
I am back out for a quick 5 hour day session in between the school runs.
I have gone back to the same swim as before, as there where clearly fish there. However, they are not interested in my bait or I was not in the right spot. Day fishing can be a bit hit and miss sometimes and I feel I am on a bit of a miss period at the moment.
I have changed my approach a bit, my right hand rod is along the left hand tree margin which leads into the bay. There were a couple of fish crashing there last time before I left, I put a few pouch full of poloni boilies along here.
My second rod is a bit of a roving rod again but because of where the right hand rod is, I have more options open to me. I am also using Bait-tech Big Carp Method mix, which I hope will bring the fish to my hook baits, as the stuff is full of attraction and if the fish are playing hard to get, this can be a good approach.
I have tucked my rod’s in amongst the reed’s this time.
Hard to spot, but they are there.
With only 15 minutes left, I was thinking I was heading for another blank. The right hand margin rod was off, which is where I had seen a nice fish top the trip before. The fish was heading under the overhanging tree and I had to quickly move along the bank, through the reed’s and get my rod tip under the water, until the fish was under control. I then headed back towards the small gap in the reed’s which I was fishing through and after a bit more commotion, I had a nice common in the net and I was feeling over the moon.
With the photos done, I had to quickly get all the kit in the car and head off to collect the kids from school.
It’s always worth a couple of hours here and there as you just never know.
I have managed to fit in a quick day session, the weather supposed to be overcast and a chance of rain, I was feeling very confident.
However, as you can see that’s not quite the case! Oh well, better than being at home and doing the washing or house work.
Anyway, I have gone back onto the Airfield Lake, as it closes for Winter at the end of October. I have about two weeks left on here, unfortunately I can only do mostly days as the wife is away on business for a week.
There are a few on here as I would have expected, so I settled for a quiet bay at the back of the wind where I had spotted some fish along the tree line.
Less hope they don’t stay there.
The other rod I am using as a bit of a roving rod, to see if I can pick up the odd fish that way.
I am using a bag full of Polony meat chopped up.
The other rod is on the tree line, it has a poloni pop up with a small bag filled with micro pellets which have been soaking for some week’s.
I don’t think the weather is in my favour today and would you believe it 15 minutes before I am due to leave, the heavens open.
With not a bleep, I was on my way back to collect the kid’s.
I fancied a bit of stocking today in a few swims round the lake, as I have not done this for sometime and the weather is looking very good. There is going to be plenty of rain this week, which will hopefully mean that the river will be in perfect condition next week when I to return there again after the barbel.
This is my first choice, it is the furthest away from the car park (I have chucked some bait in all the day swims which are all amongst the trees, so I may work my way down to the car park). This syndicate has put a lot of thought into their design and have broken the lake up perfectly.
All I am doing is free line-ing Bait-tech Polony meat .
And scattering around micro pellets and broken up poloni boilies, ( As an attraction for the fish.)
Mini chopped Polony meat
I have moved on to the second swim of the day, only giving each swim and hour. I only get from 1000 – 1400 fishing time. Which is plenty enough for this sort of fishing.
Despite another two swim moves, I failed to entice any carp to feed today.
I have decided that I need a break from the river, after my last trip which resulted in another blank. I have a feeling that the fish my have had a bit of angler pressure in some shape or form and have moved on.
I had more or less the pick of the swims when I arrived. The two I really fancied was due to the way the wind was blowing. I set myself up in a swim which give me access to a large bar, that runs down the middle of most of the lake.
It also had a nice margin to the right along a small island, with some nice overhanging trees.
The other rod was fished on the drop off in the silt gully at the back of the bar, with a good load of poloni boilies & poloni ground all mixed up with some hemp oil.
Time to sit back and enjoy the view (until the storm arrives tonight).
Oh my, that was a wet night. I have not had rain that heavy for a long time and the only fish that graced the back, where bream.
