Date: 15/1/12
Location: Cottington Lakes
Lake: Black Lake ( Species Carp almost pushing 20lb, good head of bream to 8lb, roach, tench rudd and perch to 3lb. with a few medium sized pike)
Catch Report: Weather was awful! Rain hammering down testing how water proof by bivvy was, and winds testing how stable it was. Thankful my bivvy stayed in one place, and i didn't get wet. Fishing was a real struggle, and no matter what i did, i didn't seem to be get nibbles.
I tried the usual baits that work well on this lake (luncheon, pellets & sweetcorn) yet i drew a blank on all of them. I set there all morning and most the afternoon trying and trying. With about 2hours of fishing left, I spotted a calm spot on the lake, not sure why it was so still as it was in the middle of the lake, but none the less i made a cast to the spot. I put two trusty maggots on a size 14 hook, sat and waited. i was using buzzers with swingers, and the wind was blowing a gail and i could not really register bites off the tip of my rod.
My swinger slowly started rising up, i approached my rods and waited. The swinger was still slowly rising, I usually find this is a tench bite. I waited for the swinger to rise fully and the line to go tight before striking (this must have taken 20seconds) I immediately felt the weight of the fish as it tried to run. I was correct, it was a tench. I find the fight on a tench very distinctive, yet hard to explain. It put up a fair fight, but i managed to get it to the net pretty quickly, and i was desperate not to loose this fish. The fish was in pristine condition, fin perfect. She weighed in at 7.2lb, so was a decent size to.
That was the only fish of the day, but in my view it was worth it to get such a nice fish. after the morning i honestly thought i didn't have a chance of catching. but i kept at it, and eventually tempted on fish into biting.
Date: 12/1/12
Location: Hythe Canal (Mainly Roach & Perch, with the odd Gudgeon and Bream)
Catch Report: Being back to school means the days I can go fishing are number, so I try make the most of ever opportunity I have. Although the fish in this local canal are of no real size, its still not a bad place to spend a day. There was a very cold wind blowing so I picked the most sheltered spot I could, this being a bend on the canal, surrounded by a good thick tree line. I set up a sensitive waggler, with a tiny size 20 hook, so i could catch all sizes of fish.
a single maggot as a hook bait proved pretty effective, and i started receiving bites and regular intervals. Although as usual the fish where literally tiddlers. I did manage a 2lb bream, which was by far the biggest fish. My second biggest fish being a roach pushing half a pound. I fished for about 7 hours, and managed to make up a keepnet of 11lb, excluding my bream. So all in all i was pretty pleased.
a single maggot as a hook bait proved pretty effective, and i started receiving bites and regular intervals. Although as usual the fish where literally tiddlers. I did manage a 2lb bream, which was by far the biggest fish. My second biggest fish being a roach pushing half a pound. I fished for about 7 hours, and managed to make up a keepnet of 11lb, excluding my bream. So all in all i was pretty pleased.
Quick Session
Date: 8/1/12
Location: Cottington Lakes (Deal, Kent)
Lake: Match Lake (Species some Carp just over double figure, tench, roach, perch and a few bream)
Catch Report: I only had about 4hours of fishing, so was looking to bag as many fish as i could, not being bothered about there size. I used a very sensitive standard waggler set-up, with a size 16hook. upon arrival i put a few oily coarse pellets into the swim, to try and get fish feeding while i began to set-up. Being careful not to feed to much as this is where many people kill there chances during winter fishing. hook baits i was using were simply a single or double maggot or a very small piece of luncheon meat.
The water was quite choppy, but i was fishing behind an island so i could clearly see my float. The fishing started slow, but gradually got better. i quickly built up a decent keepnet of roach, perch and a few skimmer bream. i only had about half hour left, so i put a larger piece of luncheon meat on to try and entice a carp to bite. it worked quite well and in the last half hour had three carp, sizes only being 4lb, 5lb and 7lb, but when using a light float rod with 2-3lb line, its great fun!
Location: Cottington Lakes (Deal, Kent)
Lake: Match Lake (Species some Carp just over double figure, tench, roach, perch and a few bream)
Catch Report: I only had about 4hours of fishing, so was looking to bag as many fish as i could, not being bothered about there size. I used a very sensitive standard waggler set-up, with a size 16hook. upon arrival i put a few oily coarse pellets into the swim, to try and get fish feeding while i began to set-up. Being careful not to feed to much as this is where many people kill there chances during winter fishing. hook baits i was using were simply a single or double maggot or a very small piece of luncheon meat.
The water was quite choppy, but i was fishing behind an island so i could clearly see my float. The fishing started slow, but gradually got better. i quickly built up a decent keepnet of roach, perch and a few skimmer bream. i only had about half hour left, so i put a larger piece of luncheon meat on to try and entice a carp to bite. it worked quite well and in the last half hour had three carp, sizes only being 4lb, 5lb and 7lb, but when using a light float rod with 2-3lb line, its great fun!
First Blog Post!
Date= 3/1/12
Location= Cottington Lakes (Deal, Kent)
Lake= Alder (Species: Carp to 25lb, Bream to 8lb, Tench, Roach, Perch & Pike)
Catch Report= first time fishing this year, was looking forward to it so much as i got a bunch of new baits for X-mas that i wanted to try. I arrived approx 7am, and to start with i fished to rods, One with a Mainline Green Indian Spice Pop-up on a Zig rig, about mid-water as i could see carp cruising around as conditions were still and not to cold. my other rod was a simple pike rig, with two size 6 trebles, with a dead baby trout as bait.
With-in 15mins, the pike rod buzzers went made, and the front part of the rod was pulled off the front stand before i could react to it. the fish fought hard and low, i was using light tackle as the pike in that lake are generally quite small. I landed the fish, a 7.2lb pike. It was a good start, i put another dead trout on the rod, and put it back into one of the more reidy margins as i feared my long fight with the previous pike may have spooked them and this is wear they would be. Mean while on my pop-ups i had a strong take, and i played a fish for about 30seconds before it managed to come off. By now it was coming into late morning, so the fish slowed right down eating.
My hunch about the pike being spooked in to the reids seemed to be right, but the fish were very weary and i had to small takes, but nothing solid enough for me to strike. About 2pm i decided to put Mainline Cell boilies on both my rods. And i'm not sure whether it was by luck or the Cell boilies stimulated them to feed but i had a brace of carp with-in 30 mins, between about 2.45 and 3.15. I weighed the fish, the smaller one being 8lb and the larger one being 13lb. Not particularly big fish, but at least i was catching.
As an early dusk beckoned the fish began to rise again, so i changed to pop-ups to see if i could intercept one coming up in the water. This time how ever i used CC Moore Live System Pop-ups, as i felt the bright green Mainline ones may have made the fish weary of them. My judgment seem to be bang on and in the last hour before dark and managed to land another brace of carp. This time slightly bigger, one being 11lb and the other a beautiful 16.8lb mirror.
Overall was a great days fishing,
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