snake lake then epic T

[alf - big al]

Met up with captain ken at the snake lake again after some blistering sport over the past few weeks, gotta say the fishing was the slowest its been for a long time, i think the fish are spawning right now in this pond, having caught a lot of bream last week that were covered in spawning tubercles, the silver fish fishing was still a fish a chuck on small soft pellet or corn, but personally i struggled trying to find better fish. The captain on the other hand played the game better than me, opting to fish maggot and small soft pellet over groundbait, anyway...our swims..


Ken opted to fish the overhanging trees, and i went on the hot barbel corner, but ken struck first blood on the barbel hooking a lump on maggots


after a fine scrap, he landed a 6 pounder....happy days for ken.
I persisted catching a few pasties and some beautiful long tailed brown goldfish, after bumping a few fish on the solid 12 elastic, i decided to put on a lighter power top with just a solid 6 elastic, it worked, i was now hooking all the bites but then........i hooked a lump that took off at a rate of knots and had me struggling to build the pole to 12.5 metres to catch it up and then twang....it was gone, my inside swim died a complete death and for the next 2 hours i couldnt buy a bite, even after topping up the feed and leaving the swim alone..nothing, but ken was in again...

this time a little smaller, but he certainly had the tactics right for the barbel

then another

While i sulked on my peg...ken had a wander off to the T pond behind us, there were carp all over the surface, and not a soul on there, so i quickly set up a match rod with 6lb line straight through to a size 10 hook and crept into the corner dropping a lump of crust just in front of the peg board.....WHAM !!!!! a carp took it straight away.
after a good scrap it was in the net

we wandered around the pond picking off the carp one after the other, ......i love stalking...its the only way to catch carp, the adrenaline buzz is unreal



think this one was a grass carp, what a fight for a carp of about 6-7 lbs, it snagged me in a lilly bed under my feet, and after mooching around with the landing net ken managed to free it and it was netted

my best fish was a tad under 11lbs


What started out as a pretty poor day for me turned out not bad at all, good job ken had taken that stroll or it would have been a different story
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HAPPY DAYS AGAIN

[Steve Duffy]

A great session Some lovely fish.

[morrow]

Some nice fish mate

[prawnster]

Excellent session, that one you thought is a grass carp looks more like a wildy to me ... they go like stink

[one last cast]

nice mixed bag some cracking whiskers like you said it dosnt get better than stalking the carp on the top beats sitting behind buzzuers all night well done

[alf - big al]

Excellent session, that one you thought is a grass carp looks more like a wildy to me ... they go like stink

cheers for that shaun, never had a fight like it off a similar sized carp, could well have been a wildy, ive never caught one before, gonna be heading back to the T pond on saturday

[Ken the PACMAN]

No its not a Grass carp as they have fins more like Chub in size and position.

[alf - big al]

No its not a Grass carp as they have fins more like Chub in size and position.

cheers ken