After a disappointing visit to Nursery Fields the previous week I decided today to visit the club's carp lake at Chittenden.
I was up at 5 am to ensure that I got a nice early start which hopefully would enable me to get my favorite swim down at the far end of the lake
I arrived at the fishery just 6 am with the sun shining on the sheep in the nearby fields. "What a glorious summer's day" I thought to myself as I drove down the track to the car park. Only a car or two in the car park so my plan was coming together.
I unloaded the car and made my way down to the dam end of the lake where my favorite swim was awaiting me. The lake looked in fantastic condition, I was anticipating a great day.
As usual today was going to be a two rod attack, The first would be a waggler set up of 6 lb line to a size 16 16 hair rig hook on a 6 lb hook length. The second was a straight bomb using maize as the bait fished at an angle of 90 degrees to my left.
With the swims fed I was set up and ready to make my first casts at 7:05. The sun was still shining.
I got off to a flyer on the waggler rod. I started on corn and immediately the bream were on it. Five of them in the first hour,to be exact. It had now begun to spit with rain.
I switched to meat for the next hour and was rewarded with one of the lakes smallest catfish! The rain was getting harder and the skies were very dark.
It was quiet for the next sixty minutes, the only action was that I missed a good carp with a liking for corn. The rain was really coming down now. It was time to put the umbrella up.
Between 10:00 and 13:00 the rain really came down. The wind also got up to make matters worse. Most of the people around the lake had packed up and gone home. Only the idiots remained! Still one bream in three hours kept my spirits up!
Just after 1 pm the feeder rod's tip went round and I was into a fish. It didn't dash away with any power so I knew it wasn't a carp. I was right as when it broke the surface I saw it was a bream that weighed 3 lb exactly. Nice one!
On the waggler I was still using meat as my bait. I was rewarded with my first carp, which came in at 6 lb. I and everything else was totally soaked by now.
They were going mad now, a few minutes later I was into another carp with a liking for meat. The one was bigger coming in at 9 lb 7 oz, almost a double.
My 13th fish came in soon after, this was another carp with a weakness for meat however at 8 lb 10 oz it wasn't as big as the previous one.
The rain was really crashing down now and I was beginning to feel uncomfortable and cold. Did I pack up and go home? No, this moron stayed on. By 15:00 I'd added another four fish, three bream and another carp, this one came in 2 oz under 10 lb. Not my day was it?
I was back on the corn for the next 90 soaking wet minutes. I did get a couple of fish, both carp and both estimated as it was now too wet for the digital scales. The first was about 8 lb and the second a bit smaller at 5 lb.
Between 16:00 and 18:00 when I packed up I managed to get another five fish, four of them on meat. Three bream and a carp of 9 lb. The fifth was my second fish on the maize, a carp of 8 lb 6 oz.
I did have a bit of luck at the end of the day, the rain stopped when I was about to pack up!
So despite getting absolutely drenched I finished the day on 22 fish, one of them almost a double. Not too bad, Sting in the tail when I got home it was raining again so got drenched unloading the car!
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