Broke a PB Twice!

[natty]

Last week I went for a day session to More House Farm Fisheries and decided to fish the specimen lake. I set up in a nice looking swim in the deeper area of the lake and decided to fish all 3 rods legered. I chose to fish two rods after carp and one rod after the sturgeon which also live in the lake. I fished the sturgeon rod on a margin spot where the baliff recommend for sturgeon, while one carp rod was cast to an island and the other was fished in open water.

 

Bait wise, for the carp I fished with 12mm Carp Vader jelly pellets on the hair, while on the sturgeon rod I fished a large chunk of luncheon meat over a few handfuls of meaty pellets (Carp Vader Schnitzel Wurst feed pellets).

 

It took an hour and a half before I had my first bite, which was on the carp rod fished to the island. My strike was met with carpy resistance but unfortunately after a minute or so the hook pulled. It didn't feel massive, but I reckon it was at least double figures.

 

Another couple of bite-less hours passed, before I had my first bite on the sturgeon rod. It was a slow steady take and as soon as I lifted up my rod it bent right over and line was being effortlessly stripped off the clutch. After a good fight I eventually slid the net under the sturgeon.

My current PB sturgeon was 10lb 2oz and this looked at least the same size, maybe a little bigger. I was delighted to see the scales read out 11lb 12oz - a new PB!

Here it is:

 

20 minutes later the sturgeon rod was away again, this one put up an even better fight and it was several long minutes before the sturgeon was finally in the net. This one looked even bigger than the first and the scales confirmed I had broken my sturgeon PB again - this one was 13lb 1oz.

Here it is:

 

Shortly afterwards I had a twitchy take on my carp rod fished in open water and I quickly landed a pretty fully scaled mirror of around 2lb, I unhooked it in the margin and got the rod back out on the same spot. It wasn't too long before I had another twitchy bite and another small carp was the culprit, this time a little common.

 

I packed up at 4pm and unfortunately no more action had came my way. Overall I had enjoyed a fun few hours fishing and although the carp fishing was slow, having my third rod after sturgeon paid off and I was delighted with breaking my sturgeon PB twice.

[Dales]

Nice fish and have to admit I woud not mind one of those, maybe next year I will have a go for a Sturgeon.

[chavender]

a good session there ,well done on upping your PB's ,surgeon may be ugly pre-historic looking monsters ,but well worth the effort ,like catfish & zander they're on my to do ,oneday list .

[Dick Dastardly]

Well done Natty.I bet there are a few AN members who havnt caught a Sturgeon (or Sterlet as these most likely are) so how about you organising an AN fish in there some time?

[Chris Plumb]

My mate Geoff has just come back from a proper Sturgeon trip!

 

http://www.fishingmagic.com/venues/travelreports/14531.html

 

Even talk on the IAC of doing a fish-in next year!

 

 

C.

Edited November 2, 2009 by Chris Plumb

[Andy Macfarlane]

......or Sterlet as these most likely are.......

 

That's what I was going to say too.

 

Well in all the same Natty....

[wayne baker]

Well done Natty nice fish. Never caught one myself. They are very prehistoric looking. i doubt they have changed much over millions of years.. And yes i would agree with Budgie and Andy. They are sterlets.