No more carp

Well, I've made a decision. From now on I'm not going to go fishing for carp, I'm going after tench and bream. Sod it, thats all I catch anyway. Or at least I used to.I seem to be struggling to even catch them. I've trieds catching carp and it aint worked.

I went for a night session on Thurs (23/8) and caught nowt. I am still trying the method feeder and I'm obviously doing something wrong. I get the odd nibble but not had a major run on it yet.
I marked up my spot and baited up with small balls of the mix and cast out the feeder. The other rod was cast out a few rod lengths onto an area where I'd previously seen some fizzing. I baited up with some freebies and waited.

I waited all day and night and only had a couple of knocks and bleeps to encourage me. Vic had a few knocks but he didnt have a run either. Between us we must have covered most rigs and baiting situations.

So its back to the drawing board and try another plan!!!

Until next time

John

Still trying hard

Went for a day session on monday. Got there about 6.30 and set up middle of road bank, where i'd definately saw signs of fizzing.
I was going to be trying out the method feeder approach and to this end I had mixed some dry bloodworm mix, nutty mix and blakes special mix together. This was added to my scalded pellets and hemp, which formed the basis for my method feeder mix.
I was fishing one rod with in line lead and one method feeder. The inline set up was cast about 20-30 yds out to the fizzing I'd seen earlier. The method feeder was cast a bit further out, approx 50yds or so. This was more of a roaming rod, although it was still in the general area I'd selected.

Nothing happened for a few hours, then out of the blue the method rod went into alarm as some angry fish sped off with my bait attached to it.

Yeee Haa! Success at last.

Sadly, my joy was short lived, as no sooner had I lifted into the fish and felt it on the end of my line, it went TWAAAANG!!! The bloody thing had shed the hook.
To be honest, it didnt feel like a great fish - possibly a small tench - but I was still gutted at losing the fish.

Thats fishing for you.

Anyway, after that, I had a few knocks on the boilie rod but nothing from the method feeder.

Another blank to record for posterity

LOL

Until next time,

John

Thorney Weir part 7

    For a change a nice dry start to a 2 day session at Thorney. There were a few anglers in the road bank swims but going past the channel the whole of the main lake was free. As a nice south  westerly was blowing into this bank  I made my decision. Another swim I hadnt fished before.

     I was set up and found a few clearish spots in front of me at about 60yds (using my AT standard baitboat and internal sonar feature finder). Two rods on these spots with snowman set ups using  CC Moore Meteor and 12mm pop up with a little pellet bag to mask the hook. The third rod was on a chod, again using CC More Meteor pop up. This went a little further out to my right at about 70yds.

         I was very surprised when a couple of hours into the session my chod rig rod trundelled off. On hitting the fish I felt it snagged in dense weed.  I eased the pressure on and off, trying to free the carp. It was still on so after a few minutes I put the rod back on the rests. After a minute or two it started taking line so I picked the rod up and gave it steady pressure  whilst walking backwards. This did the trick and I was back in full contact with the fish. After a bit of a struggle it came in and was safely netted. Not the prettiest fish but I was very pleased to have another Thorney carp.

        The rest of the session was quite uneventful apart from a couple of very big bream ( 8  9lb ish)., all the fish falling to snowman and small bags of stick mix .I had one small carp of 7.5 lb later on in the second day. I was happy with the session, nothing big but lots learned and again met some more nice people. Cant be bad. Packed away in the dry and headed home.  I like this lake, very prolific and cant wait to get amongst the big boys !!