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It was nice to be back on the lake after a long break over the summer months. My last session was back in early June and since then most weekends have been hectic with a mixture of Birthdays, Anniversaries, Grand Prixs, Holidays, and general everyday life itself. Needless to say I was itching to get back and cast the rods out.

Last weekend we arrived to a reasonably busy lake, many anglers grouped into the main areas where fish were showing and had been caught in recent days at the far end and back of the wind. So rather than squeeze in between them I decided to do the opposite and fished on the wind under the rod tips with the bivvy tucked behind a bush in a bid to increase the comfort for she who must be obeyed.

Out went a few kilos of Colins RLD boilies, am sure the gulls had most of them, honestly baiting up now resemble the rear end of a Grimsby trawler as soon as the catapult comes out of the bag.

Early hours on Monday morning had this welcome Common at 31lb 10oz visit the bank, it was nice to be back.

It must be the most heavily populated lake of gulls in the area frustrating many anglers chances of surface fishing, and making daytime baiting often impossible. The swans now teach there young to actually sit out by the marker float, and wait for the spod to arrive, the gamble of taking a direct hit is deemed worth it, they no longer identify the spod as danger, more like a natural food source

Once again was sat quietly enjoying a very relaxed evening of fine wine and good food with my wife while watching the evening sun set on what was an excellent days sunshine which had us catch a few rays if nothing else,

A few single beeps and then a steady slow pull had the indicator up tight to the delkim though the line was still in the clip, so I paused a few seconds to see the indicator slowly lower a few inches and to then slam back up in style.

Immediately I felt the dull thump of a fish in weed, a few moments later it was now on the move,,,,,,, towards me,,,,,,, at this point im not sure whats on,,, maybe an upper double or a low twenty wrapped in a ball of weed, hey it could even be a tench as its so difficult to tell as it plodded in closer,

Then as it reached the reeds to my left it kicked and shook to let me know this just might be a surprise,,, and maybe even a bit special,

Its now into the outer reeds but steady pressure stopped it getting in too deep, and thankfully it was soon back out and now in front of me, and after a few solid thumps and a half hearted roll, it was into the net first time.

First glance and no weed to be seen which confirmed she was a good fish,,,,

The Korda lead clip and tale rubber had nicely dumped the lead exactly as intended,,,,,,

Hunter Carp Foods RLD boilies again doing the business, cheers Colin,, another 20 kilos please, will collect them next week

and the scales confimed a new PB Common at 34lb 11oz, Perfect.



The capture was extra special, yes it was a PB, I had been stuck on 34.01 since August 2007, but to have her with my family with me made it that much sweeter, as Danny was in the next swim with his partner Chelsea, so he was on hand to do the honours with the camera plus grab a few extra pics of the special moment for the family album.

Well its fair to say im very pleased with the last few weeks on the bank.

We arrived on Friday and was surprised we had a good choice of swims, it would have been easy to go back into where I had last weeks PB as the fish were cruising and enjoying the sun in this area. A 40 had been out further along the same bank just a few days before, though most anglers felt the lake hasnt really fished well in general over the last few weeks, yet the fish that had been out had been of a good size.

The actual swim of the 40 was free, always tempting but I decided against it as this would surely be the kiss of death for me, as a few fish topped in the area so I chose the next swim along as I had a nice 30 from here a few weeks ago and the swim has produced reasonably well for me over the last few years.

I decided to spod out several kilos of mix made up of assorted pellet, hemp, particles and whole plus chopped RLD boilies to an area of low weed, my rig was a sliding choddy with a long supple hooklink and the RLD boilies fished snowman style settling nicely onto the weed. Few are using spod so even though I hadnt had a touch on it last week I felt it was still worth another go. The other rod was fished with the same set up over a few kilos of the RLD boilies which had produced well for me last week.

I felt confident.


After just a few hours a few single beeps and I was into a lump that plodded around among the weedbeds and i could tell from the bend in the rod it was a good fish. Once in the net and onto the mat I wasnt sure but was hoping that agin this just might be special, yes it was clearly a nice fish, but surely it wasnt going to better last weeks PB
The scales settled on 35.10 and I really couldnt believe my luck as again the memorable moment was shared with my wife.

35.10 New PB


The evenings celebrations were extra special

The session was backed up with commons of 28lb and 23lb.

It seems the tweaking of the bait by Colin worked a treat. cheers fella .