UK Carp & Coarse Fishing

Trip No 26 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on June 25, 2015 by richardhandel

Wow, Summer has well and truly started today, 22 degrees here down in Hampshire this afternoon. Not 100% perfect carp fishing weather, did try the floaters for 10 minutes, before the seagulls spotted it (aarrrgh). Anyway, as I only arrived at 1830, I thought it best to get all sorted for the night, have a brew, soak up my surroundings and may be a few photos.

I have picked a nice swim within a small wood, which is quiet a nice area. The fish move through here to very to the bottom bay. I have been meaning to fish this area for some time, however, every time I feel it’s right, someone else has beaten me to it, not this time 🙂

For the time being, I have a rod out near the point of the island. This is the point at which they enter this part of the lake, the other rod will be in the margins to the right of me, with a good load of ground bait and Bait- tech Poloni boilles.

Looking out towards both islands.

Well, what a night that was. For all the wrong reasons, the mosquitoes came out to terrorise me and boy did they. I hardly slept at all and when I did I have a take, I managed to lose the fish. Not sure why but as I was so sleepy, I can’t remember what happened other than the hook pulled. It could be due to the rig I am playing with at the moment, I just have to see on the next take, hey.

I have to go home and do the school run, but as the weather is more favourable, I am coming back for a day trip. I am going to bait up before I leave, come back and fish the same spots as the wind is nicely pushing into this bank.

Does look good

Unfortunately, all I got was a hook pull from a carp trying to go round the corner of the island, oh joy,

Till next time

Richard

Trip No 25 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on June 20, 2015 by richardhandel

I am out on the reservoir tonight as I fancy my chances with one of those big commons in here. The conditions have been perfect over the past 24 hrs and I have picked one of my favourite swims, as after a good walk around the were no real signs of carp. This swim gives me plenty of options and a good view of the lake!

With plenty of lilly pads around for Mr Carp to hide up in.

I have baited a bit heavy, I need to attract these fish away from the natural food source in the pads e.g snails, caddies fly larve etc.

Well not quiet what I was expecting, but I had a bream at 0530 this morning, oh joy.

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No24 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on June 15, 2015 by richardhandel

I have managed to fit in a days fishing on my last week of work (before I am made redundant), everyone in the office are mostly good and we are spreading the tiny work load – 5 ish phone calls a day.

I have picked a nice quiet corner – as there is no one else here the whole place is quiet, except for the birds.

Rod 1 – is tucked under the bush to the right of me.

Rod 2 – is on the far margin in a small bay between the margin tree. I have spomb’d out the last of my groundbait from my last trip.

I have add a few more micro mixed pellets from Bait-Tech and top up the attraction level. We will see what happens this afternoon and tonight. The weather was supposed to be overcast. However, the sun keeps appearing and its warming up fast, we will see.

Well the day has passed and with the weather being completely wrong, I am not surprised. I need to get this day fishing sorted soon, as I will be spending a bit of time doing days when the kid’s are in school.

By 10 pm, I was thinking something is not right here, as I should of have had a take by now – anyway there was not much I could do about it now. So I got tucked up in the bag and at around 1 am I finally got a take. The hook link parted and to say I was peeved off was an understatement. I really hate with a passion leaving hooks in carp. Any way, I finally got back to sleep and at around 3 am I was in again and had a nice 15 lb common in the net. I recast and got back in the sack again and was woken up again around 5 am with another take and blow me, it happened again. This night is not going my way and as I was getting a bit paranoid at this point. I changed both my rod’s over to another type of hook link material and will investigate later. My luck was still tipping the scales in the wrong direction, I lost yet another fish. This time, due to a nice big tree branch that I have never found in this spot before. One good thing, the hook link and hook where still attached, which was nice after my previous problems.

The morning sun was starting to come over the trees and with only 2 hrs left fishing, I really hoped that things would start to come good before I had to be off to work.

Well, as you can see the last 2 hour’s have improved dramatically and I landed 2 fish, both Commons of 16-4 & 19-8.

I am over the moon about them, considering the nightmare that was the previous 8 hours!

(and all on Bait-Tech Polony Boilies, pellets and ground bait mix).

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No 23 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by richardhandel

This trip I am out for three nights, as this could be my last 3 night’s trip for some time. As I am becoming a house husband!

I have set up in an area which will give me plenty of options and there have been a good few fish cruising around the area.

Rod -1 is close to a big bed of pads on the far margin. There is plenty of weed growth around, however the six foot in front of the pads is very clear.

Rod – 2 is on a nice, but small sandy patch along the tree line, in only 3 ft of water.

Rod -3 is in the gap, which is a perfect interception root.

All rods have pop ups on and with a good helping of my ground bait mix.

With a few handfuls of boilies over the top.

One of the issues here, is that the water is so clear.

Just like a bath!

Day & night – 1

I had no joy in the night and was woken by a Mallard attached to my right hand rod and that was the only action of the first night. I re-baited at around 11 am, as there was rain forecast for the afternoon and hopefully a good time after.

Day & night – 2

The night passed by in a nice deep sleep, I was awoken at 0530 by the ducks this time! The wind had changed direction and was now blowing from the West. This made my margin flat calm, which was a complete change from when I got here. We shall have to see what the day brings!

Nicely hidden away.., just the way I like it.
Well after much thought, I dicided the best option would be to cut sort my trip and not stay for the third night.

Till next time
Richard

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Trip No 22 Carp Fishing (2015)

Posted on June 5, 2015 by richardhandel

I arrived down the lake early this week, as I wanted to have a good look round the far end. I had not been down there for sometime and it did look rather nice in deed. However, with the way the wind was pushing, I fancied a swim on the big part as the wind would be behind me. I could get a rod out to the island, where I had seen plenty of fish before and also there is a fantastic margin. It has a nice bush overhanging the lake, I have always liked the look of.