First trip out this month was to the runs water, once again
I took my Aircurves with me so that I could get used to catching more fish on
them, I was using conventional rigs on leadclips for the majority of the time
and had about a dozen carp that ranged from 2lb to around double figures.
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| 13lb common from the 'Big Fish water' |
Next stop was onto another lake on the same complex that is
supposed to hold some bigger fish (Gonna call it ‘the big fish water’), I was
using wafters and Ronnie rigs over a little bit of bait and managed a single
bite in the early hours that resulted in a low double. Jase who was with me had one in the evening
so we decided to had a bit of fun on the runs water before we left, this
resulted in us both having a few but it certainly wasn’t frantic. It was fun though and that is the whole point
of going fishing with your mates.
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| The shallows at Shearwater |
A few days later I was back out on the banks of shearwater
but I was using my lighter rods so it was fishing at closer range than what I
would usually d in that area of the lake.
I had a few on the bottom, one on floaters and a couple on zigs but due
to the fact that I had been feeding small baits I was plagued by bream, I must
have had 30 of the blighters when I didn’t want them.
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| A rare pretty one from Shearwater |
The following week it was back off to the big fish water in
search of a bigger bream, I had heard rumours of bream to 8lb so it would be
good for a night on the light kit. I had
worm, caster, dead maggot, hemp and corn at my disposal and this was getting
fed in an open end feeder pugeed with a fishmeal groundbait with a few pellets
in it. I got indications almost straight
away and after only a few hours I started to realise that there may be a problem
as I started to catch eels on maggot and worm hookbaits, I persevered but the eels
were that aggressive that nothing else to get a look in. I switched to feeding corn and using double
corn on the hair for the night but still they would strip the bait off the rig
with the minimum indication but as the sun started to glimmer lift light levels
in the pre dawn I finally hooked and landed a 4lb bream… Honour satisfied. I started working hard again and the eels
were still everywhere, but after switching swim for the umpteenth time I had a
proper bite when I had given up hope in the mid morning and it resulted in a
6lb 1oz bream. I packed up soon after to
get some sleep.
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| Good to see so many of them. |
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| 6lb 1oz Bream at last |
Last trip out for this installment was to Orchard Place farm
in Kent for another Army Match, I was
partnered up with Chris and we came out the draw in the bottom half so opted
for a swim in which we had seen a few fish the day before, we were tucked into
a corner on the back of an island. Chris
took the corner and open water going around the island I had the back of the
island, It took less than an hour for me to catch a fish and it was small.
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| Small fish tactics |
I ended up having to use some interesting tactics to convert the bite and long story short, we had 20 carp for 70lb,
this was enough for second in the match behind Matty and Joss who were on front
point and they had 350lb for just over 20 fish. Meh. It was fun catching up with a few of the old
and bold and definitely an experience. Anyway I am going to wrap thei short and
sweet blog up now and Iook out for the next one very soon.
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| My biggest of the match at 10lb!! |
