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First time carping since November (I think)


tomhaggett

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So there I was at work the other day, thinking as I often do about where and when I was next going to fish and it popped into my mind that I still had a new pair of carp rods that I'd bought in December to christen. It just so happened that I finished a bit early that day, so after a little detour I was en route to check out the little lake that I had been stalking in the summer. To be honest with the state of the rivers I highly doubted that I'd be able to get near it but apart from a heavily saturated field that was just navigable with wellies all was A ok.

I'd not seen the place since autumn but it didn't appear to have changed all that much with the seasons, the water still being absolutely gin clear, if not even clearer than it was over summer, despite the deluge of water than must have gone into it. After my stroll round I'd seen very little, bar one old corpse floating around near to the island... Fearing the otter's had been busy again I had a little poke and, for want of a better word, it 'thankfully' showed none of the telltale signs. I rolled a quick fag before leaving and stood watching over the rippled surface before something caught my eye just off a denuded tree that was growing well out from the island. Sure enough, on closer inspection, it was a carp, a few carp in fact, all doing a circuit of this tree and looking extremely active for the time of year. I knew that was the spot to catch one from so left and started hatching a plan.

A couple of days later I was out for a night with my mates and as I was pretty much driving past the lake on the way home I grabbed a bit of bait and in an extremely hungover state trudged across the water-laden field before spreading 40-50 baits all around the area that the fish had been spotted. I'd return at some point the next day after I'd caught up on some much needed sleep. (getting old :unsure:).

 

10/2/14 - Private Lake

 

True to form I massively overslept and didn't arrive at the lake until 12.30pm and for once didn't even have the rods set up ready. A sizeable plume of bubbles erupting and a fair bit of silt kicking up soon gave me the kick up the ass that I needed and a small bag was soon flicked onto the active spot. This occurred a fair bit short of the area I'd baited but at least it gave me confidence that fish were in the area.

 

Before setting up the other rod I grouped 10 baits closely over the best looking spot near that tree and 10 minutes later a little white pop up was on the money. I was cursing my inability as it took 3 casts before I was happy but within only 5 minutes that rod was away... the fight was extremely uneventful to be honest but a dark little mirror was soon in the net, shortly followed by another one on the same rod after topping up with a similar amount of baits. A few pretty shoddy self takes were snapped of each fish before they were slipped back. More practice is certainly needed in that department.

 

A mate popped down shortly afterwards and after moving the unproductive rod to another spot along the treeline I had another take and a monumental scrap with a pretty common... only 11-12lb but in absolutely fin perfect condition... the sun even came out to help light up the pics. That was the last of the action unfortunately but the rest of my bait was spread around the area before leaving in preparation for next time.

 

A thoroughly enjoyable session all in all, even though it did only last 4 hours tops.

 

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