Soldato
I know it is mainly Sea anglers that frequent this thread but i thought i would rock up with some course fishing love.
Went last weekend for a carp session since environment agency has been doing some work on my favourite canal and there has been a bit too much boat activity on the Thames near me due to the recent Magna Carta event.
I decided to give the lake i grew up fishing on a go. It has a huge stock of silver fish and a good few carp up to the 30lb mark. The lake gets regularly netted to take some of the carp out, so it doesn't become like one of those heavily stocked private waters which get overfished. Having said that the smaller carp i grew up hunting for seemed to have put on a fair bit of weight in the last 10-15 years and with my insane stroke of luck i manage to bag 7 over 26 hours with the smallest being around the mid teens and largest in the mid twenties. I have fished this lake well over a hundred times and have never had such luck.
I had no bites for 7 hours until the air started to cool and the sun started to set. Then it was run after run.
Brought the missus along so she could commandeer my bedchair and BBQ some food while i fished. Loving the new bivvy i bought, it feels of so much higher quality than any tent or bivvy i have previously bought and worth every penny at £210 (originally released at 509 but i think stock is being cleared for a new line). Since getting this fortress of a tent, i am all about comfort when carp fishing and though i use to dislike the idea of locking myself down with so much equipment, it is quite nice to have when you are in for a long fishing session.
Currently looking at getting a Cobb BBQ to bring along. These things are amazing and can cook pretty much anything. A friend of mine has one and brought it a long to a weekend session. Thought he was a lunatic when he brought out an uncut raw pork shoulder to roast.
Here is the first one of the day before light got a bit too low for pictures:
If it cools down sufficiently, i will crack out the pike gear and go for another long session this weekend. Would love a chance to catch a Zander or some of the bigger Thames pike.
Went last weekend for a carp session since environment agency has been doing some work on my favourite canal and there has been a bit too much boat activity on the Thames near me due to the recent Magna Carta event.
I decided to give the lake i grew up fishing on a go. It has a huge stock of silver fish and a good few carp up to the 30lb mark. The lake gets regularly netted to take some of the carp out, so it doesn't become like one of those heavily stocked private waters which get overfished. Having said that the smaller carp i grew up hunting for seemed to have put on a fair bit of weight in the last 10-15 years and with my insane stroke of luck i manage to bag 7 over 26 hours with the smallest being around the mid teens and largest in the mid twenties. I have fished this lake well over a hundred times and have never had such luck.
I had no bites for 7 hours until the air started to cool and the sun started to set. Then it was run after run.
Brought the missus along so she could commandeer my bedchair and BBQ some food while i fished. Loving the new bivvy i bought, it feels of so much higher quality than any tent or bivvy i have previously bought and worth every penny at £210 (originally released at 509 but i think stock is being cleared for a new line). Since getting this fortress of a tent, i am all about comfort when carp fishing and though i use to dislike the idea of locking myself down with so much equipment, it is quite nice to have when you are in for a long fishing session.
Currently looking at getting a Cobb BBQ to bring along. These things are amazing and can cook pretty much anything. A friend of mine has one and brought it a long to a weekend session. Thought he was a lunatic when he brought out an uncut raw pork shoulder to roast.
Here is the first one of the day before light got a bit too low for pictures:
If it cools down sufficiently, i will crack out the pike gear and go for another long session this weekend. Would love a chance to catch a Zander or some of the bigger Thames pike.