Due to a heavy workload most of my time on the bank this year has been sporadic at best, moving from 1 day ticket lake to the next, anyway this year I decided my short sessions would be on a local course lake with a good head of carp with most fish being around the 10lb mark, I’ve managed to get down to the lake a few of times this year with success on each visit.
This particular water has a lot of snags at one end of the lake. (fish love snags)
I tend to travel very light using just 1 rod with all tackle and bait put in a bait bucket for ease of transportation the only other pieces of equipment are landing net ,unhooking mat ,weigh sling and a carp-care kit.
Moving from swim to swim utilising PVA bags in the margins, I always prime the next swim roughly 30 minutes before I intend to fish it by scattering a small handful of Krill pellets to hopefully have the fish waiting for me to lower in my baited rig, consisting of white krill popup and a PVA bag of matching pellet glugged in krill liquid for that extra pulling power.
This year has brought me a couple of really good short sessions with 1 session of just 3 hours resulting in me having 6 carp to around 14lb utilising the before mentioned tactics of priming a swim and moving onto the next every half hour.
On another particular session I had been wandering around deciding which swim to start off in, I opted for a swim which has served me well in the past using my usual approach I lowered in my rig into position and began firing a few mixers out whilst I waited for any sign the fish were present in my swim. Well after a few minutes a couple of fish started to take my floaters with 1 of the fish being a significantly bigger than the others, after reeling my rod back in and changing over to a simple floater set-up I managed to keep the fish interested in my floaters noting the smaller fish tended to hit the freebies a lot faster then the bigger one. I decided to try and split the fish into 2 smaller groups by spraying mixers either side of the swim to thin the numbers, my thinking was reduce the numbers and more chance of getting a hookup from the bigger one I had seen.
JACKPOT--- first cast to the big fish I had seen and she was on, after a really good fight with the fish trying to make the snags at every opportunity I managed to get her in the net, I weighed her on the scales with the fish going 22lb I was over the moon with this 1 as its one of the biggest fish in the lake.
All this just goes to show that you only need a few minutes in the right place.
Thanks for taking the time to read this short blog and good luck on your next sessions where ever they may be!
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