Haverholme Carp Lake
Quick day session 2nd April 2014 and 5th April 2014
Hi guys sorry I haven't been on for a while, with
work being so busy and not having much time for anything let alone fishing. I've still been keeping myself busy and trying to better myself within the angling community. I've recently been put on to a very good bait company called Carp Bait Solutions (CBS for short) and have used there bait on a mid week session this week and my oh my it speaks for its self! They do a range of boilies, pop ups, stick mixes and glug's. I was using there LO30 and I can say it reeps carp, it absolutely stinks and their matching pop ups make a great combination. I was fishing a local lake to me called Haverholme Park Lake. I had been going for a look around a couple of nights before and could see a lot of carp toping down the bottom end furthest away from the carp park, so when I finally got down there that's were I headed straight away armed with the LO30 I was confident in a bite. I chose to fish swim 18 and was confident I would catch on chods as I have done many times before. I was using naked chod set up also armed with the pre tied chods from Rc Tackle Development by far the sharpest hooks around. I opted to use a 16mm white LO30 pop up on one rod and a 16mm yellow AS-1 pop up on another, casting them out into the middle of the lake and scattering 10mm and 16mm LO30 freebies around the spots.
10 minutes went by and whack the rod was off!! I struck into the fish and straight away it bolted to the lilly stems off to the right. I battled the fish slowly through the stems and it came free after a couple of minutes and it rolled over my awaiting net! I could see from looking in the net it was a nice fish. I got the fish out the water and got her on the matt looking at the hook hold it was bang on, no way was she getting off! I carefully got her on the scales and she weighed in at just over 14lbs. Not a monster but none the less a cracking fish!.
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| LO30 doing the bizz |
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| Other side! |
After taking pictures and returning the fish I got the rod straight back out on the spot with another couple of handfulls of the LO30 around the awaiting chod rig! Well it wasn't long before I was hooked into another fish. To be honest it didn't feel like a nice fish, it was a very lethargic and coming into my net very easily, but I'm not going to moan it was another fish and bigger than what I first though!
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| low double but look at those scales! |
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| Other side! |
All in all I was very happy with the way this session was coming together. I got the rod back out on the spot again putting a few freebies on the spot, everything went quite for a while then once again the rod ripped off this time it was the other rod, unfortunately I lost this fish in the lily stems! Gutted wasn't the word but hey you get back up and carry on. I had a few more bites in this session but they weren't really big enough to get the camera out for!
I planned to return on Saturday the 5th of April and I did just that. I was only fishing for a few hours in the morning as the Missis was at work. Again armed with the LO30 and the same tactics as during the week I choose to fish a different peg a little further up, number 21 to be precise. Again I casted both chod's out and scattered an array of 10mm and 16mm LO30 freebies around the spot. An hour or so later I got a single bleep on the delk which made me confident for a bite. I wasn't wrong a few moments later the bobbin shot up to the rod and the clutch started to race, I struck into the fish straight away it headed to the right, back towards the lily stems. I managed to avert him away and back out into open water, 10 or so minutes later I pulled him over the net and my heart stopped racing. I left him in the water for a few seconds to get his breath back and to give me a chance to sort the mat out and get my breath back myself! As I lifted him out of the water I could see it was a nice fish again, falling to a deadly combination of the naked chod rig topped with a white 16mm LO30 pop up and 16mm LO30 freebies! I must say I've had a few great sessions and hopefully there not going to stop but until next time folks TIGHT LINES!
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| Another mid double! |
