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| Wild torpedo! |
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| Jay with a nice little common |
Not complaining of course as it's great to be busy.....I've had a couple of short sessions, a pair of overnighters and a quality day out last Sunday. I'll start off with a brief day session I had on a local club lake with my good mate James.....I arrived around 9am and set up in one of the less popular swims as the usual suspects were hogging the best pegs and firing all over the entire lake???
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| Great start to my new water attack! |
It didn't take long before I had some action and a stunning wild looking common snagged itself. A great little scrap ensued before eventually I had hold of her. The rest of the day was very slow and I only managed a shed load of bream for the rest of the day. James had a couple of nice tench and finished off the day with a lovely fish off the margins on a CBS Cream Divine Pop Up!
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| Hectic fun on the top in mid April! |
Well, I settled down for my first night of the year and introduced a little bait into my swim. Things were very tough and the temperature dropped away dramatically over night and thick fog formed on the lake. There was little action and I suffered my first blank session in as long as I can remember!
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| Immaculate uncaught common! Awesome! |
I ventured back out almost exactly a week later to find things a little warmer and drier than the prior week! This had seemed to spur the fish on a little and after a quiet few hours into darkness and after a brief snooze. I was awoken by a gentle few bleeps sounding from my left hand Delkim. I watched the rod tip and sure enough it was nodding away! I struck into a good fish which plodded around in the thick weed before eventually finding the net and awaiting scales. 24lb 2oz of common gold! A cracking start!
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| Great fun on light rods! |
My next session out was a brief few hours of surface fishing with my good mate Joel. We fished a club water with our floater gear and found around 15 fish each were happy to oblige! Great sport so early on in the year!
We even managed a couple of nice fish on retro tactics, using a center pin and float tackle in the margins to tame a handful of lovely commons!
Sunday saw a cold start in Herefordshire but after a long drive up to a new venue, Ceri, Joel and myself were very happy to find our chosen venue looked in top notch form....A 4 acre estate lake set back in beautiful countryside was to be home for the day. With an unknown stock size or quantity, things looked a little tough from the onset with just Joel landing a couple of small roach on a corn/lobworm combo on the float.
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| Beautiful common for JB! |
After some hours of struggling, I decided to put out a carp rod at the windswept end of the lake, into an unfishable corner. This did the trick and just quarter of an hour later I was hooked into a lovely pale coloured common of 13lbs. This fish had never seen a hook as far as we could see!
It wasn't long before the lads followed suit and within the hour we had a couple of rods placed along the far margin with a few Red X and Monkey Nut boilies aimed at the fish! Joel was next to find a fish and a blistering run came from his Delkim! A great fight ensued and finally he subdued a stunning common of just under 16lbs. Ceri managed to hook one then just as we were weighing Joels fish! This was a little smaller but the peach of the day at 13lb 8oz and a really pretty scaly mirror carp.
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| Ceri with the most stunning of Mirrors! WOW |
It just goes to show that there are still a few very underfished waters out there even in this day and age! You just have to be prepared to hunt around for them and look in unusual places! Don't ask me where the place is though as this is my little secret for now! I can't wait to get back!
Lots more fishing coming up soon. I'm off out tonight for a brief overnighter on the tricky little pool, hoping for one of the bigger chunks! I hope you all have a wonderful Easter and good break from the grindstone! Tight lines all and see you soon.
