Watching the weather forecast last night before Match of the Day, Maria remarked “Looks like being nice tomorrow, Why don’t you pop out fishing?”
Well no further invitation was needed, so 7am saw me loading the tackle into the car. I had decided to go down to Hartleylands Farm, as with 8 different lakes & ponds you can normally find somewhere to fish on even the busiest day. Well on arrival 6 of these were booked for matches, just leaving a choice of 2 of the smaller ponds, Finches & Woodside.
I popped up to Finches and with only 3 other anglers fishing at the far end settled on a swim to the right of peg 7. This is the narrowest point, being just 8mtrs to the far bank.
Bait owing to the unplanned nature of the trip, was to be whatever was in my holdall, which was 4mm & 6mm GOT Baits expanders and sweetcorn.
The rig was simplicity itself, an eyed series2 fox match, knotless knotted to 2½ft of 0·17 Carpteck with a Drennan Carp1 cocked with a no6 and a no10 dropper.
An underarm flick with a pinch of 4mm pellets and 6 grains of corn primed the swim and off I went. Within a couple of minutes the float slid away and a gentle lift contacted the 1st fish of the day which proved to be a fighting fit Mirror Carp of around 2½lbs.
The pattern continued for most of the session, the disruption caused by each fish necessitating refeeding and a patient wait till the next found the bait. Around 11am an angler who had set up next to me on peg 6 came round for a chat as he couldn’t buy a bite.
I ended up giving him one of my identical rigs and some corn, but for him it was not to be and he packed up at 1pm without so much as a bite.
I carried on getting fish probably every 15mins, and when I decided to pack up at around 2pm, the obligatory ‘Last Cast’ produced the best fish of the session at around 6lb.
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