Duncan Charman’s Weekly Session Report – Friday 6th July.
Having not fished for myself for over
a month it was great to be back on the bank with little else entering
my mind apart from catching a few fish. I could have gone for the
hard option and headed to a venue with eels on my mind or the easy
option and headed to Harris Lake on the Marsh Farm Complex and pulled
out tench and crucians all night; however it was the lake that
nestles in the sloping hills next door, Johnson’s that l finally
decided on.
Arriving late afternoon l managed to
settle in between some other anglers and have the rods fishing come
6pm. A few fish were moving, albeit at around 30yards, and with the
anglers around experiencing bites but no hook ups at this distance
felt confident that the crucians would finally move in later in the
evening.
I normally fish the float on this
venue but with heavy rain forecasted l decided to tackle the venue
with more specialist rigs. My rods were Neoteric XS 12ft Multi
Quivers with the 1.5lb tips added, replacements for Korums fantastic
Precision Multi-Feeder, which were teamed up with the new CS3000
reels which were loaded with 7lb Reflo Direct Mono, a low stretch
mono that would show up any movement from crucians in the swim? On
the mainline l threaded a 1.1oz K Grip Inline lead which ran freely
on the line and buffeted by a Quick Change Bead onto which a four
inch hooklink was attached made from 6lb fluorocarbon supporting a
size 16 Xpert Hook which had a tiny hair from it which would hold a
cut down piece of sweetcorn.
Squeezing a good helping of sieved
Sonubaits Supercrush Green around the lead l simply swing this out,
set the clutch and attach the bobbins. Although l wanted to sit back
and relax, fishing for me is far from relaxing as l feel the need to
work the swim at all times, so a routine was embedded in my brain to
reload the lead and cast every twenty minutes. The first twenty
passed without so much as a knock and l started to feel that the bulk
of the fish were further out in the cover of the weed. Soon after a
recast the clutch screamed and what was on the other end headed for
the centre of the lake with myself struggling to gain any control and
eventually the hook pulled. A four pound tench followed then at
around 8pm the indicators started to lift and fall, a sign that the
crucians had arrived. It was long after this that the indicator
started to dance in familiar crucian fashion and the first of four
graced my net. Unfortunately the crucians are down in weight after
spawning, yet in the middle of summer last season a 4lb 8oz beauty
was recorded twice, so you never know. The four crucians l landed
weighed 2lb 2oz, 2lb 8oz, 2lb 13oz and the best exactly 3lb, a fish
of a lifetime for many. Amazingly the action quietened down after
dark with just the odd small tench falling and come 11pm when the
heavens opened and having exhausted a bag of groundbait l left having
taken eleven fish in total.
It’s good to be back!
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