Just got back from a couple of nights at orchid Lakes- Home of the 30's.
Yeah, right.
It was a pleasant outing, weather was extremely mild, swans, coots, ducks and geese all joining in on the vocal front and taking it in turns to wipe out Steves lines. Lol
Funnily enough, I wasn't plagued too badly, with only the occasional visit. The swans were a major fan club of Steve though, as they came visiting quite often and at various times theoughout the day and night!!! It probably had something to do with the fact that a bit of bait managed to be dropped into Steves swim.
Steve chilling out on the 1st afternoon
We tried everything. Boilies, Chod rigs, running rigs, bottom baits, pop ups. Not a thing. We had one or two knocks but nothing that we were able to strike into. The water is still extremely low, probably 2-3 ft short of what it should be. Some of the swims we looked at would need climbing gear just to get from the bank to the waters edge. I wasnt going to be trying that at dead-o-clock in the morning.
We set up in Middles and New Middles, two of the prefferred swims apparently. We marked up, spodded out and cast the rigs to our spots. It seemed to take us an age to get everything ready but eventually we were all setup. Time for dinner.
We had an enjoyable 1st night social and retired to our bivvies later that evening, fully expecting that at least one of us would catch that night. But no, it wasn't to be.
Woke up next morning and had breakfast. Looked at the lake and thought "How come we didn't catch?"
How come we didn't catch? View from our swims
No reply from Him up above!
We saw a couple of signs of carp but they were too far away but at least the carp were moving. Seems like they moved to the other end of the lake, because we didn't see any more signs of carp. Steve managed to catch a 3lb(ish) bream (much to his annoyance) but other than that, it was another blank day at the lake. They're certainly adding up now for me!
A quiet 2nd night and early to bed. Still fishless when we got up.
Johns Digs for the 2 night session
Packed up for 11am and came home to plan the next outing!
Cya for now
Jt and Sc
