Good and bad angling!
Sorry to create
another ‘In Session’ with Duncan on the same venue, Broadwater,
however its now becoming a joke on just how most anglers approach
their sessions. Let me explain.
Arriving again
slightly later than I would have liked due to dropping the girlfriend
at work I found the lake slightly busier and as expected the ‘going
swim’ The Oaks taken, however the double on the rugby bank facing
the island surprisingly wasn’t. I almost did what I tell anglers
not to do and head for this, yet having found the fish well away from
the island a few days earlier thought that this would be as good a
starting place as any, however the swim that I fished then was taken,
as was one halfway along the road bank. I decided to drop into one
also along the road bank yet with the lake completely flat and no
fish showing I knew it would be tough to buy a bite. This is where an
anglers eyes come into play and soon after setting up a carp lumped
out just three rod lengths out to my right. It was this showing fish
that I blame for making me sit in the swim too long. The rain that
had been forecasted to start at 10am had also arrived early and
without waterproofs and an umbrella it was a case of sitting it out.
Luckily it wasn’t that bad but I did have to slap myself for not
having any pre-tied PVA bags made up.
Looking out into
the gloom a few carp started to show right on the corner of the
island, yet with the angler to my left looking straight at them and
the angler in the going swim able to cast almost to them all I could
do was watch. The best part of two hours past when the wind created a
ripple on the water and the showing fish slowly moved away from the
island and towards the rugby bank. They were still out of casting
distance from my position, yet I knew that if I moved to the rugby
bank then I may just have a chance of getting a bite in the remaining
half an hour.
As expected the
double had gone, once again anglers that had missed these showing
fish, so I set up so I could cast straight towards them. Fortunately
I had already assumed that these fish maybe at distance and rigged up
my 12ft Entity rods however with a small PVA bag attached I was still
dropping a few yards short. It was simply a case of casting singles
to the showing fish and crossing my fingers. Having just minutes
before I had to leave I didn’t even place the rods on sticks and
alarms, just placed them on the ground with the baitrunners on.
Twenty minutes past and then the right hand rod springs into life.
Whilst playing the carp I was aware that other anglers are watching,
probably all wishing that they should have move, yet by not being
lazy, using my eyes and moving to the fish I soon had a nice mid
double resting in the net.
Five minutes later
I was back in the car and heading home well happy with the result and
questioning just why some anglers go fishing as for many that were
fishing that morning, the chances of them catching was zero, they
might as well gone and cast out on the rugby pitch!
I wonder if those other anglers that
were watching moved, probably not!
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