first session 2014

First session of 2014

Saturday 11th January 2014

Old Mill Lakes

Hello again Guys and Girls hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Year its time for new challenges and experiences for myself as some of you may know my target water this year is Old Mill at Market Rasen im after a new pb and hopfully my first 30+ carp I will also be fishing a few other waters but mainly concentrating on Old Mill.

Anyway onto the fishing I got down to the lake around 9 half 9 I wonted to get hear early to get the whole weekend at them, I was fishing with a mate of mine called Rick Preston another keen angler. We got all our gear onto the barrows and got up to the lake from the car park, after looking around the lake we both decided to fish the middle bank which sort of separates the new and old side Rick chose to fish the old side and I chose to fish into the new side near were I had "ARNIE" last time I was down hear. I managed to get both rods in by 10 o'clock, my left hand rod I was fishing a multi rig tied with 15lbs N-Trap a size 8 wide gape from Rc Tackle and a bright pink fruitella pop up on the hair I also scattered around 50 whole boilies on the spot I was fishing, my right hand rod I was using the ever faithful naked chod rig which I got the bite last time I was down, im also fishing it with a bright pink fruitella pop up and 50 or so boilies around the spot. The boilies im using this year are from bad boy baits which Paul Heseltine scouted me and asked weather I would like to join the team and happily I did, im using the Carribean boilie from the range and im looking forward to using there baits this year!. 

Carribean from badboy baits

     

After getting the rods in I got the bivvy up and everything else sorted out then got the kettle boiling away. I got a couple of liners about 15 mins after the right hand rod went out on the spot this was a good sign for myself means there is fish in the swim. I sat on that till about half 2 were I put another load of boilies over the top of my recasted rigs. 

The set-up

Nothing happened and darkness was coming in quick so I recasted and baited with a few more boilies by then darkness had fell and I took shelter indoors!. The weather had took a turn, the wind had dropped but the frost was setting in, the hours past and everything was quite. Around half 9 I had a screaming run only to find out that a swan had picked my line up bloody things! so I reeled that rod in and recasted back out onto the spot, after I had sunk the line and put the bobbin on I settled back into the bivvy and tryed to get some sleep.

Everything was quite through the night with the temp dropping to around -4, I woke around 7 with a loverly frost on the ground I recasted and got the kettle straight on.

    

A couple of lads had turned up and I was speaking to them they was only on a short day session, they dropped into the pegs next to us one lad was fishing zigs and straight away he was getting line bites this made me think the fish were in the area. I gave it half hour he was still getting liners so I decided to put a zig on around the 4ft mark and fish it into 7ft of water, couple of hours pasted still no joy Chris had been round and spoken to me he said have a move around and try to locate the fish so thats what i did!. I moved a couple of pegs down from Rick fishing to the old side just to try and locate the fish, I gave it about an hour in the peg not even a liner I was confident there wasn't anything in the area so again I moved around into the old side this time fishing from the disabled peg which is the other end of the lake to were I was fishing just to try get an indictaion into where the fish were. I gave it an hour or so still no joy I came back around to my original peg near were rick was fishing I went to see him he had decided to pack up and get off he had work tomorrow, im now staying another night as I have no work on Monday so happy days lets see if we can get a bite!. I helped him pack away and get off he left around half 2 3 o'clock after that I got back to my original peg and got the rods back out on the spots and another load of boilies over the top, I had decided to sit on that for the rest of the night and just hope for a bite. I introduced a little more bait just before dark not much just a little  to top the swim up.

The morning after the night before well.... I was getting liners through out the night but nothing came of it but as for the rain well it certainly chucked it down. I woke around 7 just before first light I had decided to take a walk around the lake so that's what I did stoping in a few different swims to try get on the fish and get a last minute bite as I was leaving around 9/10 o'clock after a couple of hours trying different swims nothing came of it so I decided to call it a day even tho I blanked im sure im a step closer to catching one however I have enjoyed it as always and cannot wait to get back!

Tightlines!    

Sun set on the 1st night