The last couple of weeks have seen me mainly sorting carp
gear out so that I could fish a winter ticket on a gravel pit just north of
Swindon. I have done a couple of trips to
Todber Manor with mixed results.
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| Dusk over little Haynes |
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| Little Haynes |
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| A Wadmill Double |
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| Wadmill in the rain |
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| Wadmill again |
But the day was finally upon us that would see me in pursuit of Giant Carp again. However, my first visit saw me failing to even see a carp, forget a lighter so I packed up, bought one and set up again and finally the weather tried its best to soak me whilst I was sleeping as the wind swung into my bivvy as I slept.
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| The point |
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| Car Park swim |
The following day it was back to Todber again, this time
on the paddock lake. It has a good head
of carp to just over 30lb and cats to 80lb so expectations were high as my
brother and I had the whole lake booked. ( There were meant to be 6 of us).
We set up in pegs 2 and 3, I put John into 3 (the best
peg on the lake) and proceeded to cast towards his swim with a pva bag . This
rod gave me the only 2 bites that we had for the 24 hours and they resulted in
two nice looking mid doubles.
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| A Paddock Double |
The Saturday night saw wind and rain of biblical proportions
and I thought that I was going to end in Kansas at any time. It was a good
giggle and a nice reminder of how social fishing can be.
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| Paddock Peg 2 |
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