I arrived at the fishery bang on opening time at 7 am. After paying my fee I made my way to the car park along the mile long dusty trail.
As I was only using one rod today it didn't take me too long to set up. In fact I was ready to make my first cast at 7:55.
The swim I chose today was one that had a set of lily pads about 3/4 of the way across the narrow lake which I could easily reach with a medium sized waggler.
I started with corn as the bait. The first hour things were very quiet. The lake is full of roach so I was a bit surprised that some hadn't immediately shown up. I did lose one carp in the lily pads though.
Here was my set up.
The next hour was a repeat of the first, corn on the hook, and no interest from anything other than another carp that I lost in the same bed of lily pads.
Things were really slow today. By 13:00 I'd managed to land a couple of roach on halibut pellet. I also lost another carp in the lily pads. I was getting a tad frustrated.
Here's one of them:
Here's another:
Things might have been slow but I did have company:
Another hour passed and I'd added another roach and my first carp of the day to the virtual net. I also lost another carp. What was going on?
Another hour slipped by and all I had to show for it was another lost carp. It was definitely one of those days.
The last three hours of the session saw things change every so slightly, I managed another roach and three small carp!!! That made my total for the day, eight.
A disappointing day but then again you have to have them to appreciate the good ones.
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