First trip of 2008.

[coalie]

Fished a local Fenland lake yesterday for a few hours. When I arrived the conditions were good with a light south westerly wind.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/Coalie_2006/P2040013-1.jpg

I set up in the windward side of the lake with the plan to fish the marginal reeds were the carp sometimes hold up in the colder months.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/Coalie_2006/P2040015-1.jpg

Used my old maver pole and fished lightish with a 4*12 float and size 18 hooks to 3lb line. Fished a yellow tip float first as this showed up well in the conditions and double red maggot on the hook. Fed lightly with 10-12 maggots every now and again.

First put in resulted in a tiny roach, then second put in the float shot under and the laccy sped out, after a good scrap I landed a carp around 6lb.


http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/Coalie_2006/P2040035-1.jpg


http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/Coalie_2006/P2040051-1.jpg


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Then everything went quiet for the next hour or so. The wind picked up and the tow increased so tried the tip, nothing doing. I went back on the pole with a slightly heavier rig 4*14 to combat the stronger tow and a blacked float tip, tried double caster. This resulted in two nice rudd and two decent carp which I lost due to trying to bully them in on the small hooks resulting in a hook pull. Enjoyed the short session as it made a change from the beach over the last few months,at least I know how they're feeding so I might be back next week.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/Coalie_2006/P2040066-1.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k226/Coalie_2006/P2040089-1.jpg

[OH POLLOCKS !!!!!]

well done mate:thumbs:

[tagman]

Second that, well done mate, nice looking fish too. Maybe its the camera angle but its fins look quite large.

[SuperBassMaster]

good reprt nice pics too well done

[son_of_it]

well done on the fishing. sounds hard but thats the time of year tho

[coalie]

Thanks for the feedback. Not a decent catch, in fact a near blank for that fishery but I enjoyed being out fishing. I think I prefer fishing places like that in the winter because it is more satisfying when you catch a few.