Maria had to work today, and wanted a lift as she had to start at 6am,Well if I'm getting up so early I may as well go fishing, so I had arranged with a pal of mine Dave Collier to pop down to Hartleylands today for a session on the Reservoir.
The drive down was wet but uneventful and I arrived at 7am to find there was a small match booked on the Reservoir, but as only pegs 7-17 were being used a phone call was made to Dave who was about half an hour behind me, and we decided to go for it.
I settled for peg 30 and on his arrival Dave settled into peg 28.
As we tackled up the sun was starting to break through and things were looking promising, even though some of the carp still appeared to be spawning.
Bait wise for me it was just what was in my carryall, some 3 & 6mm expanders, corn and meat. Dave had brought some cockles with him as he finds that these are ignored by the silvers that are present.
I fed a margin swim and another at around 8mtrs, and sure enough pellet whether it was 6mm or 3mm produced roach, skimmers and hybrids, while Dave had a swift couple of carp with his first two put ins at around 4mtrs.
A change to corn finally produced a couple of carp for me but the weather was threatening a turn for the worse as the sky was darkening to our left and the wind was getting up.
A better carp from my margin swim on corn gave a good account of itself, and as I was playing it Dave was into one himself that was only marginally smaller.
The drive down was wet but uneventful and I arrived at 7am to find there was a small match booked on the Reservoir, but as only pegs 7-17 were being used a phone call was made to Dave who was about half an hour behind me, and we decided to go for it.
I settled for peg 30 and on his arrival Dave settled into peg 28.
As we tackled up the sun was starting to break through and things were looking promising, even though some of the carp still appeared to be spawning.
Bait wise for me it was just what was in my carryall, some 3 & 6mm expanders, corn and meat. Dave had brought some cockles with him as he finds that these are ignored by the silvers that are present.
I fed a margin swim and another at around 8mtrs, and sure enough pellet whether it was 6mm or 3mm produced roach, skimmers and hybrids, while Dave had a swift couple of carp with his first two put ins at around 4mtrs.
A change to corn finally produced a couple of carp for me but the weather was threatening a turn for the worse as the sky was darkening to our left and the wind was getting up.
A better carp from my margin swim on corn gave a good account of itself, and as I was playing it Dave was into one himself that was only marginally smaller.
All to soon thunder was rumbling and lightning flashing in the distance and I shot off to the farm shop to get us a couple of hot beef pasties for lunch.
With the pasties eaten the rain arrived with a vengeance, and it was a question of just sitting it out under the brollies and leaving the poles well alone as lightning flashed across the reservoir and thunder crashed over our heads.
After about half an hour it stopped, the sky cleared and once again the sun was shining.
Dave had made a discovery that his Gortex overtrousers weren’t as waterproof as they once were, probably due to all the fish slime, mud etc that had accumulated over time and decided to dry off in his car.
The fish were still feeding and another couple of carp and yet more silvers came my way, but over to my left I could see grey sky's building again and decided to quit while the going was good.
Dave emerged from his car, dry once more and declared that he was going to fish on for a while.
Thankfully we weren’t far from the car park and as I loaded the last of my tackle, the rain started again.
A quick farewell to Dave with the assurance that I would see him next Friday at Sumners Ponds for a 3 day Fish-In with some people from MD’s and I was on my way.
How did Dave fare? Well he phoned me when he got home to tell me what a wimp I was and that after I left the rain stopped, the sky cleared, the sun came out and it was glorious for a while.
A bit later it got really dark again, chucked it down and then finished off with hailstones. He ended up with 15 carp and a load of silvers for about 80lb in total.
With the pasties eaten the rain arrived with a vengeance, and it was a question of just sitting it out under the brollies and leaving the poles well alone as lightning flashed across the reservoir and thunder crashed over our heads.
After about half an hour it stopped, the sky cleared and once again the sun was shining.
Dave had made a discovery that his Gortex overtrousers weren’t as waterproof as they once were, probably due to all the fish slime, mud etc that had accumulated over time and decided to dry off in his car.
The fish were still feeding and another couple of carp and yet more silvers came my way, but over to my left I could see grey sky's building again and decided to quit while the going was good.
Dave emerged from his car, dry once more and declared that he was going to fish on for a while.
Thankfully we weren’t far from the car park and as I loaded the last of my tackle, the rain started again.
A quick farewell to Dave with the assurance that I would see him next Friday at Sumners Ponds for a 3 day Fish-In with some people from MD’s and I was on my way.
How did Dave fare? Well he phoned me when he got home to tell me what a wimp I was and that after I left the rain stopped, the sky cleared, the sun came out and it was glorious for a while.
A bit later it got really dark again, chucked it down and then finished off with hailstones. He ended up with 15 carp and a load of silvers for about 80lb in total.
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