Well i can only start by
apologising for the dodgy photos, most pics are on
Dave's camera, the pics i have are all self takes on my little
digi camera. The past couple of months have seen me fishing on a couple of waters mostly. Up North, My local Club water and more on the lodges.
Ive now got a couple of good fish under my belt but still not that elusive twenty. My fishing
isn't about weights and individual fish however i find it helps to motivate ones self on harsh nights if you have a target you would like to reach before the years out.
One such harsh night was during the big freeze. Me and
Dave thought it would be clever to go fishing all night with the temperature
plummeting to minus five and still freezing in the day. Although i
didn't get a sniff of a carp
Dave hooked a fish at 4am. I had to smash a hole in the ice
in front of his rods to get the net in! Once the culprit was in the net ( a small common) we noticed another fish sitting a couple of feet out under the ice It was attached to
Dave's margin rod! His alarm had froze solid and the fish was just sat there so we
bundled it into the net too! One bite and two identical commons on the mat!
unfortunately i
don't have that photo currently at my disposal.
whilst trying to pack up that morning i snapped off twice, the ice was so thick and i guess it
weakened my mono.
So times could only get better, and that they did! We stared our campaign on the lodges and i can say that to date i have had two of her residents and Dave's also got in on the action banking one of her elusive carp. By no means have we had any 'jewels' but i think any fish from said water is good going.
We have also had a couple of weekenders up at our northern water which have produced some cracking fish up to 19lb. one such weekend saw me and Dave bank a staggering 1600lb of carp and we reeled in at night to get a nights sleep! an average fish is 8lb so that's a lot of fish in two days fishing. i also found that Big Eels love halibut oil! my boilies glugged in them were like a magnet and saw me land several 4lb+ SPECIMENS. Unfortunately they were slightly less obliging to pose for the camera than the lovely common carp, this one being slightly bigger than the norm.
Then
there the Club water i have fished a few times, this has given me some cause to rip my hair out! With a good smattering of
twenty's and only being a couple of acres you would think they were
catchable. Although i seem to be able to catch
consistently i
haven't had any of the biggies, my most recent trip last week saw me bank several fish topped by this mirror just short of 16lb.
Myself and
Dave are on the lodges on
Friday night so i shall keep you updated!
as a footnote congratulations dad on banking several chub from the ribble i know they are not quite the sea trout you would like them to be however i don't think your complaining!
tight lines
Nige.
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