Me and a few close friends wanted to try lake 5 in Val-Dore, we had never fished it before and had only heard or read what was on the net/Facebook ect. We were all excited and rearing to go the week before so decided to meet up and do the draw.
Me and my bivvy bud Den drew 27 (twin swim) which was 1 of the swims we had pointed out. We left a day early to be fresh for Saturday morning as most of you will know can be a killer on the day with driving there and setting up..
We managed to have a chat with the guys who where in our swim and it wasn't looking good! The guys only had 5 fish all week and lost 4 or 5 due to snags and zebra mussel's. Me and Den had a chat and agreed a of plan of attack, we agreed to fish normal with minimal bait as the guys before us said they had put 30kg in.
On Saturday 12pm we were let on the lake.
The swim Den and I both wanted was the right side as there was a nature reserve just off it, with some nice looking carpy spots (over hung tree's, dead fallen tree, snags ect). We decided one of us would fish for a few days there while the other did the rest, then we flipped a coin and Den got 1st dib's. We both got all sorted and set our traps for the night round 7pm. Around 10pm 1st blood, Den had a 1 toner and hit it only for it to snag him and getaway. Just as we where getting in our pit I had a liner on my margin rod, then a full 1 toner to me! After what seemed to be 10-15 min's we banked the 1st fish out the lake, it was a nice mirror 25lb.
Next morning we reeled in and had a walk round the lake to see if any of the other lads had done anything the only other fish that had been out was a 18lb mirror and a tench.
After breakfast and just sorting rigs out, Ian in peg 30 had hooked a sturgeon, so we decided to pop round and have a look as neither myself or Den had ever seen one on the bank.
After what seem like 20 mins Ian managed to land it 37lb of pure muscle..
After seeing fish bosh all over our swim and not one run, we reset the traps again for the night. Just as the sun set Dens rod ripped off and within a few mins we had the common on the bank and as we was just sorting her out his other rod screams off.
After sacking the common we sorted his mirror out which was 17lb and the common at 19lb, we retried to bed. Next morning we reeled in as again as I never had a beep and neither did Den.
After breakfast and tea we reset our traps, with Den going for pop up in almond goo and myself going for half cell with half stick pink to act like a wafter.
Around 2 pm Den had a screamer and then lost to the snag. We had nothing that night.
Part 2 to follow
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