Rob's day

The rearranged fourth round of the Winter League today was at Hall Farm's large lake. A bit chilly but with no rain forecast and little wind should be a comfortable day, although the lake looked very clear, so maybe a swim with some cover would be good. With 6 on the Low Bank and 5 on the High, I was last to draw with 26 left in the bag! Plenty of features with the reeds across. I set up a couple of pole rigs but didn’t expect the carp to come close, so started on the method feeder with wafters. No indications in the first half hour although John Todd on peg 2 looked to have hooked a good carp on the pole early on.

A change to maggots on the hook made a difference and I started to get bites, some pull rounds but also small knocks which turned into well hooked carp although on the small size. Not complaining though as, apart from John Carter next door on 24 netting a couple (including one around 10lb), the rest of the lake seemed to be fishing hard. After 2 hours I was on 10 carp but things then slowed down with the odd carp for the next couple of hours. Nothing on the pole lines, so ditched these and concentrated on the feeder. The last hour brought a few more casting tight to the reeds and ending on about 17-18 carp for 62lbs 5oz and top weight. John Carter ended second on 25lbs 14oz and the rest of the high bank had 2 carp each.

It fished difficult on the low bank with Phil doing well to weigh 14lbs 9oz from peg 12 with Ray and John Todd getting into double figures.

Photo is John Carter with his catch from peg 24.