An Eye-opener of a Session.
I arrived
up at the club lake at just before eleven o'clock on Thursday morning,
having a wonder round it becomes evident to me roughly where the fish are, I'm
just about to walk past a swim I call marginal, for obvious reasons, 2 fish
show in the main basin of water, one of them was a mid to upper double, the
other a single figure maybe a scraper double, seeing the fish show I carry on
wondering keeping that area in mind.
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| One Poser of a Robin, Hopefully Bringing Me Luck! |
As I
slowly walked up the gate bank, I stand in one swim scanning the water where
fish were showing in numbers, out about 50 yards I found a soft drop, this came
clear to me there was a patch of firm silt, as I drew the rod back after
leaving the rods out to see if I could get a quick fish, the bottom was fairly
clear as there was no bottom debris on the hook.
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Fluoro Nutty Combos, What Big Fish Can Resist These.
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On the
rods I've put out, I'm using a hinged rig as before which I'll explain how I'm
tying it in the next paragraph, followed by the same fluorocarbon rig from my
last session but with a pink snowman presentation, I am using the pink as a
blatant highlight in hope to stop fish in their tracks getting them to feed. On
the hinged rig, I am using a 14mm Velocity Baits Nutty Combo Popup, this goes in conjunction with
the 1kg of P-Nut Plus freebies I have scattered around the area. You’re
probably thinking you’re mad putting out that amount of bait to showing fish,
as I'm now aware there are fish in front of me which may have backed off a bit,
this bait would have spooked them off so I can get some rigs on the deck
allowing them to come back for a feed if you like.
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| The Fish Were Showing Fairly Consistently there Activity Had To Unfold Into Something At Least! |
The
hinged rig as mentioned is something I have been toying with, it has been a
killer on a couple of day ticket waters I have fished recently, first I tie on
a size 8 ESP stiff rigger onto 5 inches of Mouth trap or bristle filament using
a 7 turn knot less knot, then with the tag I have, I thread on a large rig ring
and push the tag end through the back of the eye giving you a D on the back of the hook thus creating a chod like
section, then I take 12 inches of Nash Missing Link, strip off around 2 inches
then form a loop in the end(not tying a loop), I then thread the chod
like section through this loop and do the same, I then tie a 7 turn half-blood
knot in the Missing Link leaving about 2mm from the eye of the hook, I then do
the same in the stiff filament but only tying 3 turns this time. I then tease
the knots down slowly, doing this allows roughly an inch on the stiff section
and a few mm of supple braid exposed on the braided section. Finally I thread
on an anti-tangle sleeve followed by a ring swivel tied on with a 7 turn half-blood
knot. Then it's just a case of attaching your chosen hook bait.
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| The Yellow and White Brings A Good Contrast, 2 Colours Are Definitely Better Than One. |
After an
hour or so the fish still seem quite active, after seeing a fish crash about 10
yards off the back of the spot, it's still looking good to me, at
around 5pm I will put fresh hook baits on both rods and set the traps
for the night to see what happens. Usually the fish in this particular lake, to
my knowledge, aren't very active in terms of showing so frequently, one of the
fish that crashed looked like a better fish, maybe one of the bigger
commons.
Only a
light breeze ripples the surface of the lake which allows pin pointing any fish
activity a lot easier, especially in other parts of the lake as the ripples
won't go unnoticed.
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| An Unbeatable Setup, Never Really Used Helicopter Setups But With Slack Line, It Ensures Good Presentation.(Minus the Fluorocarbon to the Left) |
In some
uncertain terms I may have contradicted myself when I say "I don't use
slack lines". With the presentations described it makes sense to slacken
the lines off to keep it out of the carps way, although fishing for line bites
isn't a bad thing as it tells you if there are fish moving into or
through the zone.
After 6
hours nothing had unfolded, I made a quick recast with both rods to make sure
everything was spot on for the night, my markers on the far bank is a gap
between trees, I have one rod on the left and then one rod on the right fished
at exactly the same distance on the small patch of silt out in front of me, the
fish are still showing on the back of the spot so hopefully something moves through
during the night!
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| The Components of the Hinged Rig As Explained. |
After
suffering a cut off on the right hand rod at 9pm, which I still can't get
my head around, at 11pm it all kicked off. Just as I'm lying scanning
the water watching a hippo or two show, the left rod on the hinged set up goes
into complete meltdown. After a hairy 10 minute fight, a lovely pale, scaly
mirror is in the net! The scales spun to 20lb 2oz, not the thirty I'd hoped for
but it's a result to bag a fish on my second session! Cheshire cat comes to
mind!
I've got
to be honest here, when I was playing the fish to the net and I caught a
glimpse I thought it had only looked 10/15lb until I unhooked it in the net to
sort out a mass of tangles, I thought yeah that's definitely a 20.The rod
was soon recast and another half a kilo of boilies followed to freshen the
spot.
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| 20lb 2oz Mirror, First Carp from the New Club Lake Caught on the Described Hinged Rig + Nutty Combo Pop-up |
The night
drew on and all that persisted was the rain which was no problem as I had my
brolly sat low to the ground, as the sun came up a few anglers got set up on the
opposite bank, then I took the decision that I would make my way home. It has
been a good session that I got on the fish and it may have taken a while but
the fish got back on me and decided to have a munch.
Join me on my next session when I get to grips again with fishing with
boilies and the lake itself!
Thanks for Reading
Ross.
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