A smashing social!

Wet and bloody windy!

What a day that was! Joel and I hooked up today at Dyffryn Springs after a 3 month gap of fishing together and my little miss tagged along for the day too. I had a bit of a crap start to the day as we left home with plenty of time to get to the lake but when i got 10 miles from home I realized I'd forgotten my water proofs!

This really was a nuisance as the forecast was pretty terrible for the entire day. I had to turn back and we ended up arriving half an hour late! Sods law!

Good times!

Anyway, we had a quick chin wag with the bailiff at the lake and headed round to meet Joel who had already got his rods out on the point swim.

Joel took first blood!

Tash and I unloaded our kit and got the brolly up fairly hastily as the weather could be seen coming in from the South. It was on us in minutes and the wind was tremendous! In fact at points throughout the day it must have reached well over 50mph!

The waves on the lake were relentless and the bobbins on all six rods failed to sit remotely still at any point..... 

Joel was first to break the silence and managed 2 fish in quick succession. Tasha was next up an managed a pair too. I however had to wait a short while for my first take.

Natasha and I both fished 50p sized bags of mixed pellets over a single 14x16mm dumbell Fireball boilie.

A smasher for a smashing little girl...

The fish were all much of a muchness in sizes that ranged from around 2lbs to 5lbs with a smattering of slightly better fish up to just on ten pounds.

The bites came thick and fast and on a couple of occasions we had double hook ups and plenty of rod bending action.

We'd decided this was our best place to put the carbons in to action and the decision was proving a good one. By lunch time we had caught about 5 or 6 fish each. 


Natashas rods were seemingly doing better than both mine and Joels though and she started to tear away with the fish qty lead by a mile!

Old baldy got amongst them too!

Single hook baits appeared to work well for the better fish and Tash found a few of these happy to grab up her Fireball single bottom baits.

The wind gradually got worse throughout the day and torrential rain throughout the morning made keeping dry impossible and making small pva bags even worse! God only knows how much of the stuff went to waste with wet hands and dripping rain from the brolly whilst baiting up!

Well in Mr Biddle!

Anyway, the short and curlys of it were that we had a cracking day tiddler bashing and an even better social, which was very needed!  

Joel managed 11 carp, I had 12 carp and a skimmer and Natasha slayed us all with 13 carp and a skimmer! Well done little Miss!

Right, I have a few days off planned now so see you all on the flip side of the Easter break!

Keith x