Today was a pleasure day, no matches and myself, Troy and Mick decided to fish the back of Spring Lake pegs 17,18 and 19. This put us all on an island chuck and with the bomb and pellet waggler having worked during the week we were confident of getting a few fish. Del and Vic were going to Cary Lake and although there was a match on the Campbell Bank and Top End they could still fish the nearside bank.
The standard approach all week was to feed 8mm pellets and fish various other pellets on the hook. So I took 9pints with me for feeding and a selection of Jupiters in both 8 and 10mm, some 10 and 12mm coarse pellets and a large bag of 10mm if I was struggling to reach the island with 8mms.
I opted to start off on the pellet waggler fishing an 8g Drennan waggler 2ft deep in around 3ft of water. I started pinging 8mms across and was getting odd bites through out the first hour and managed a bream around 2lb on an 8mm coarse pellet. A switch to the bomb saw another skimmer around a pound come to the net. Troy had also caught a bream on the PW and another on the pole fishing top two with corn. Mick had a couple of fish on 8mm pellets both skimmers.
I was fortunate to hook into the first carp of the day, a hard fighting mirror around 8lb on the PW and 8mm Jupiters. I was switching and changing between bomb and PW and also ringing the changes on pellets. Trying single hookbaits and then trying doubles. None seemed to work any better than the other to be honest. Mick had a carp on an 8mm Robin Red pellet on the bomb which we estimated to be around 14lb and would be the largest fish of the session. Troy connected with an small common around 3lb which he claimed was the smallest carp he had caught all week from the main lakes.
I was still getting odd bream and skimmers before things went quiet. Another chuck next to the overhanging tree on the PW saw the rod arch round as soon as the float hit the water and another carp was soon in the net. Next chuck and the float did the same before I lost it trying to steer it away from under the willow tree. The next bite I had broke .20 Stroft like cotton and was a big fish. Before normal service was resumed and another 8lber was in the net.
Troy had also had another carp around 7lb and a few skimmers. Mick had finished on one carp and a few skimmers. Not the best end to the week but all was not over. I packed up early to sort my gear out for going home, but Mick had decided to have a dabble on one of the residents pegs by the lodge. Feeding left over 4mms he was soon into a couple of carp.
I went for a walk to see how Vic and Del were getting on. Both had caught plenty of carp to 20lb in bags estimated at 300lb plus on both bomb and pole, down the edge and at 7m. However the talking point was the fact that Vic had cast his bomb rod out only to see it dragged into the lake by a fish. By the time I had got there and a few efforts to retrieve the rather expensive rod and reel with no luck.
I returned to the lodge to pre-warn the others to be nice and not take the mickey. Mick had decided enough was enough by now and I took over his seat and pole for a quick half hour where I managed 3 carp around 7lb and got battered on another lump which pulled out after bottoming out Micks elastic.
By now Vic and Del had returned with a rather wet rod and reel. They had packed up and were casting around hoping to snag it. After around the ninth attempt a bit of resistance was felt, slowly they retrieved the bomb and gradually managed to see two bombs on the line. One was still connected to a fish. Gently they got it back and once the fish was release they concentrated on the other bomb, slowly like Excaliber it arose from the depths and back on the bank. A relieved Vic and a lesson learned.
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