To prevent my Blog sitting there and not getting updated
for weeks on end I am going to start adding some of my carp fishing exploits, I
have moved more to carp fishing of late due to time constraints and the fact
that I have become more disillusioned with the whole match scene.
Anyway that may be a post for the future so back to the
fishing.
On this occasion I was lucky, I had to take a day off to
wait for a new kitchen to get delivered and they turned up nice and early so by
lunchtime I was already in the tackle shop at Todber Manor getting a 24hr
ticket for Wadmill lake. I had decided to go on this lake as I have been struggling of late on my club lake and
needed a confidence boost. On arriving
at the lake the first job was to drop my kit off in a likely looking area and
then walk around to see what was going on, the answer was not really a
lot and as I walked around I was hearing stories of up to 4 day stays for a
maximum of a dozen carp I think it was. However,
I did notice a few shows in the same area and since the wind was hacking into that area of the I was soon setting up in a swim that covered it, I was aware though that if someone had turned up in the swim
to my Left I would be losing half the swim so I had to strike early. The guy in the next swim to my right had a
15lber whilst he was packing up so I pinged a couple of small stiff hinged rigs
out one to the island and one down the edge to my left both with a loose
scattering of about 50 boilies around them.
I managed a couple of carp from this swim both from off the island but the wind started to change direction and the fish seemed to move off with it, so I decided just on dusk that I would try to find some more fish.
I went on 3 laps of the lake and finally
decided on swim 2 above as I had seen a few fish moving in the gap of the
island to my left and it had always been a good area. I dropped 2 pop ups short
just off the reed line to the left and right of the swim and settled back for
the night.
I had my first fish just after first light and a second
at seven in the morning, it was then that the lake became really busy and it
went from two of us on the lake to 10 and by the time I left at 1200 I counted
around 20 people fishing the lake, there are 31 swims and it was October!
All this pressure had a detrimental affect on the carp and they seemed to almost shut up shop, although I did see one get caught in the morning to a guy chucking a bag of pellet into the open water.
Any way I dropped into the shop on my way out and Kia
pointed out that 4 carp from Wadmill is equivalent to a blank!! So I will be back
soon to sort that out.
I made a video of the trip and it can be found here on YouTube:
What would I do different?
I believe that if I had stayed in the first swim I may
have had a few more fish throughout the night as I heard them crashing to my
left all night.
Smaller hookbaits and pellet feed would have also got me
more bites but I was after more quality than quantity.
I need to look at how everyone else fishes it as quite a
few fish came to pub chucks whilst I was there!
Tackle used:
Rods: Wychwood C 301 2.75lb TC
Reel: Shimano Ultegra 5500 XTC CI4
Line: 15lb ESP Syncro XT Loaded
Rigs: Various, stiff hinged and multi rigs both produced
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