Catch up

Right –I have been a little slack with what I have been up to since the last posting and the beginning of the season!

Here is a list of what I have been doing and more importantly, what I have been catching!!!!!! As I have already said – I am not allowed to publicise any of the lakes so I have decided to call them as follows:

1 – Lake M – this is about 4 acres with a depth of 1.5 – 4 feet and full of silt!

2 – Lake F – this is about 2 acres with a hard bottom and some lilies but has water to 8 feet.

3 – Lake B – this is the largest water of 10 acres and has about 12 feet in some places with a nice pad of lilies running all the way down the middle!

4 – Lake H – this is one of the smallest at an acre, but is full of lilies and is a real hard water to fish!

So – here goes with the catch-up! Lake F was the next one on the list to fish as I never really managed to get up there last season because of the distance (it’s the furthest) and because every time I went there, practically every swim was taken! I am not into combat fishing and fighting for the swim so I targeted the less fished waters! But knowing that there were some big fish in there, it seemed silly not to fish it this season!

 So..... Off I went for a few nights after taking a day off work. Would you believe it, after being there for about an hour, I landed my largest bream! Not at all my target fish but at a little over 7lb it was well worth the nonexistent fight. A few little commons and a huge number of bream hitting the bank made my first 6 hrs very memorable and a little after 3am, I hit into a solid lump that did not want to come in! A healthy scrap and me thinking it must be a low 20 – it came in at 14lb 12oz ghost carp. Another new record for me and still having over 24 hrs there, wondered what else I could break!

The business was being done on plastic tiger nut popped up over a lot of freebies. I couldn’t go wrong and continued to catch even though other people struggled to get runs! Another lumping hard fighting fish turned out to be an 18.2oz mirror carp that capped off a nice trip out! I may have to fish this lake again!

Lake M was the next one on the list as it’s the closed to work and I can have my rods out within 30 minutes of leaving work. Shifting down the bottom of the lake in the shallows I could see fishing moving and feeding – although not very big, it’s better to fish on something that’s feeding and moving around than nothing!

This was just going to be a quick over nighter so a little particles were put out  tight to the rigs and the think silt would help the carp to having to munch through the top layers to find the freebies.  Fish were on the bait within the hour and bream were lapping the bait up as much as anything! The shoals are big in most of the waters and I like to fish a lot of bait to try and feed them off! Sometimes it works and other times you just catch bream!

But at 1am – a real rocket of a fish picked up my right hand rod and did not want o come in! After taking out my other rod and a massive tangle occurring, a very ugly looking common weighing in at 13lb 12oz was all I had to show for my troubles. I couldn’t believe how big its tail was! So promptly naming it Rocket, I slid it back and left both rods out as i needed some sleep.

So there it is, I have fished another couple of nights but nothing very exciting happened and the fish went small too!

Next trip is booked in for 20^th Monday night! Can’t wait!