2012 21 July 27th Nursery Fields, Edenbridge, Kent

Today the weather was so good that I decided to leave work at noon to go home and get my carp gear out before heading to Nursery Fields in Edenbridge.

My intention today was to fish peg 17 at the top of the fishery. I like this peg simply for the reason that it is the shortest cast distance to the island of all the pegs which means that I can use a small bomb and hand feed rather than use a feeder.

I left the house about 2pm for the thirty minute journey to the fishery. When I arrived there were about 10 cars in the car park. Undeterred I loaded up the trolley and headed off up the lake. When I got to the top someone else was in my swim! I couldn’t believe it I’d never seen another person in that swim before. Anyway I carried on round the lake and settled for peg 15.

Today was quite a warm day and I was already beginning to feel the effects of it when I started to set up which is why I was totally gutted to discover that I had inadvertently left my rod pod in the garage. I started to panic but managed to calm myself down enough to review my options.

I emptied my rod rest section of my holdall and after a few adjustments I managed to set 4 of them up to use as a substitute pod. The only drawback being that I had to have one rod each side of the swim with my chair in the middle.

Now I had the set up sorted I baited up my two chosen swims, the first on the left was only 3 rod lengths away and 2 out from the reed bed, the second was about two thirds of the way to the island straight in front me. On the first rod I fished 10ml monster crab boillies and on the other I used 15ml pineapple frenzy ones.

I made my first cast at 15:22 and then sat back with a bottle of coke and my kindle to wait for the action to start. My plan was to recast and to top up the feed every hour.

I don’t know if it was the heat of the day or my poor angling skills but I never got a sniff as the time first went past 4 and then five and then 6 and then 7 until at 19:10 the buzzer went off on the monster crab rod and I was into what turned out to be a 4lb mirror carp.

I was now off and running, eighteen minutes later a tench took the monster crab boillie. Not to be outdone a common carp of around 2lb took the pineapple boillie on offer. Just after I cast out, the crab rod went off again and in came another tench.

I began to feel that the swims were really coming to life however I was now becoming concerned that the light was going to beat me. Just after 8pm the buzzer on the pineapple rod went off and I was into my biggest fish of the day, a 6.5lb common.

The last fish of the day came on the crab rod and was another tench. This came in as I was packing up at 8.36.

In conclusion I caught six fish in 90 minutes which is it had continued across the whole session would have been fabulous however bearing in mind the disaster that could have been thanks to the forgotten rod pod I was happy enough