A fun evening after having started with a spate of the heavy showers that had been forecast earlier in the day.

One of the more torrential downpours started soon after I'd had my first bite and was playing a carp of maybe 6 or 7lbs. As it towed up-and-down it darkened and there was a loud rumble of thunder in the trees behind me. Not really wanting to be standing there with a rod acting as a lightning conductor, I more or less yanked the fish into the net through the rain-thrashed surface before  immediately letting him go unweighed and unphotographed, then ran to hide under my brolly as the storm passed over.

No more thunder, but plenty of showers and string winds that made the water choppy and the evening cool. The lower air pressure probably appealed to the fish however with another Common of 5lb 4, probably the strangest carp I've caught - having the profile of two separate fish shunted together (see pic). There were also Mirrors of 6lb 6, 6lb 13 and then a lump of 12lb 10 who looked heavier, but was much appreciated