Once at home after
my catfish session overnight on Friday I decided to spend the weekend
pottering around the house tidying up, which included trying to
organise my fishing tackle that had become somewhat messy.
Monday was all
about getting the text completed for an Anglers Mail ‘Quick
Comparison’ on 3lb T/C carp rods for under £100, which I managed
to do before sorting out the tench kit and heading south once more. I
wanting to fish a long day session on Tuesday but with the
temperatures forecasted to reach twenty-four degrees and Atmospherics
sky high on 1030mb I decided that the fish wouldn’t probably feed
in this so decided on the overnighter which gave me the two best
feeding times, dusk and dawn. Taking a risk I dropped into a swim
favoured by carp anglers with the wind of my back and after
introducing some ground bait thought I was on a winner as patches of
bubbles soon appeared, yet it wasn’t to be a red-letter day as
apart from one modest tench I endured a nightmare session, mainly due
to roach picking up double 10mm boilies as well as three further
tench evading capture, two to hook pulls the other from a line
breakage.
Tuesday was spent
in the studio taking photos of rod blanks for the Anglers Mail ‘Quick
Comparison’. I have to admit that I have always struggled taking
sharp close up images of small items, surprising being a
photographer, but its probably why I never enjoyed portrait
photography, as for me , I like taking pictures as they happen.
Fortunately my good friend Mark at Farnham Photography was on the end
of the line to give me some sound advice and come the end of the day
I was happy with my results and had learnt loads, now where do you
get such a service on the internet? With a few hours in the afternoon
to play with I grabbed the winning rod and headed for a private
estate lake I have access to. Finding a few carp tight against a snag
I fished locked up with a breakaway lead, PVA bag of crushed Nash
Monster Squid boiles along with one on the hair tipped of with a
small buoyant piece of corn. Sitting on the rod it wasn’t long for
the tip to pull round, lead eject and carp surface swinging away from
the snag. At 17lb it was a great feature fish, yet four more double
followed, not bad for two hours in bright sunshine. So what’s the
winning rod? Well I think you will be surprised. Keep an eye out for
the feature coming soon in Anglers Mail. Back at home I found a
delivery on my doorstep and at last I have a new bedchair and
sleeping bag, thank you Nash, comfort at last! In the evening I
relaxed to a big glass of French red before sorting out my limited
kit for a day’s trout fishing at Avington tomorrow (see separate
blog).
After my fantastic
day at Avington Trout Fishery on Wednesday it was back into work mode
come Thursday morning and I found myself on the banks of Badshot Lea
Big Pond with society’s treasurer Peter Hooper. The session was all
about catching grass carp and although the weather was scorching he
didn’t disappoint. Without giving too much away, we had the Anglers
Mail ‘Action Replay’ completed in just three hours. If you want
to know how to target these then keep an eye out over the coming
weeks as it’s an eye opener. Back at home I was hoping to get
plenty of things done, yet a quick check of my dad’s fish pond
resulted in me having to turn the filters off and getting a hose pipe
to it quickly as the water level had dropped dangerously low. If I
had left my visit till the following morning he would have lost the
lot!
Friday morning was
once again taking close up product photos before my web designer Andy
arrived to update my website. I managed to tie up a few new rigs for
the tench lake, however it seems that we are now almost carp fishing
for tench, however this feels better than tench fishing for roach
which what we have been doing. Hopefully the new approach will work
tonight?
Unfortunately its
8pm and I have just returned home after a trip to the tench lake only
to find its closed for two weeks due to fish spawning, or should that
read, carp spawning. The journey took me 2hrs 20mins and to say I’m
not a bit hot under the collar is an understatement. Why close a lake
for angling when carp are spawning, has the club forgotten about all
the non carp anglers and do carp feed when they are shagging, no!
Taking into consideration the lake isn’t an easy one, in fact the
bailiff mentioned that he had only had one carp in over twenty
nights, so if anglers cant catch them when they are on the munch,
what chance have they of interfering with them when they are
spawning, absolutely none! When fish spawn their minds are on other
things, however they certainly needed anglers bait in the lead up to
this rigorous period to build up reserves and energy to see them
through this, just like tench do, however the decision made by carp
anglers to protect carp has probably had a detrimental effect on the
tench which are now leading up to spawning and in need of an easy
meal. How narrow minded and selfish is the person that took this
decision, especially when most carp anglers know it’s a waste of
time fishing for carp whilst spawning is taking place. Will the lake
be closed when the tench start to spawn in a couple of weeks, no, and
was the lake closed when the bream were spawning, no, why because
this would cause outrage from the carp anglers! What’s really
pissed me off is we were just getting to know the venue and both me
and Chris felt confident that sooner or later a big female would
appear, something that’s not going to happen now. This is the best
period for catching a big tench, just look in this weeks Anglers
Mail, yet we have been stolen that chance. Would I have joined this
club if I knew this would happen, no? Will we be joining next year,
no!
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