fish from under the ice

[col]

I started a session on thursday morning planning to fish untill sunday managed a 13lb common at 5.00pm on thursday the lake started to freeze over nite so i put the rod tips below the surface and had another smaller common at 1 30 am from under the ice. Followed this up friday morning with a 17lb 12 oz mirror as the ice was thawing and had my fourth another mirror of 9lb in a snow storm also fom under the ice which had formed again friday nite around 12 pm pulled of a day early as the conditions were detererating rapidly what are your experiences of fishing frozen lakes recently and what bait and tactics are you finding most effective as you can imagine im well chuffed to catch in such crap freezeing conditions. All fish came to the left hand rod fished in 8ft of water on a fluro home made wafter fruit flavoured 12mm boiie with a very small pva bag of pellets

[poledark]

Intresting....what size water you fishing, and what are the stocking levels?

 

All the pits around where I live have been dead as doornails for weeks!

 

Den

[col]

the water is around 3 and a half to 4 acres depths to about 12ft itsquite well stocked around 120 carp .It just seems to produce well in the winter which is why i joined the syndicate as my other syndicate slows down around this time of year i also caught a 24lb 8 and 19lb 4 mirrors in december and a brace of 15lb commons

[poledark]

Thanks col,

 

Den

[colby]

i spent friday morn and overnight at shearwater lake wilts,temps hit minus 6 at times and YES it was dead as a dodo! when u get to the stage of having nothing left warm to put on and already look like Michelin man, then its time to head home

[col]

i looked a bit like the michelin man when i had the fourth fish the snow had just started to come down when i had the take and it got heavier as i was playing it made some good photos in the morning tho