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19th to the 21st of august.
Back at wellham for a 48hour session, this time on the dam wall. On the Sunday when we arrived the lake started filling up and every peg was took that night apart from 1 and 2. The first day I had numerous line bites, pickups excetra but nothing resulted into a fish, tactics used were cell dumbells tipped off with fake corn on one rod and on one rod I had a zig with half black foam, half yellow foam and instead of a bait stop I use a fake whit maggot, and on the third rod I had a nash 15mm shellfish boilie, snow man style with a nash 10 mm pop up, over 3 rods I scattered boilies.
on the second day the lake had hardly anybody on and we noticed around dinner time there was lots of fish shoaling on the point of the island on peg ten, we took our floater rods and a bucket of dog biscuits and a spod/ spomb rod and went up to peg ten, earlier in the day I heard a guy had been catapulting pop ups out because he had no mixers, not good for the fish, but anyways we took a spomb full of biscuits and cast it to the island and all you seen was loads of backs and fins and tails swarm in onto the bait and they took them so confidently. I used a red chopped down pop up on my floater kit and my dad had a cut down brown pop up. After topping up the swim a few times, my line tightened up and I was onto a 15lb exact common, it was a heavy fight and the while rig was solid with weed and I had only my light floater rod but after a nice battle it netted in.
After that my dad hooked into a carp and if stripped line off the reel, I told him to give it some stick, he didn’t and well lost it. after that we had nothing else, the next morning I woke up about 5am and I had a run and it was a nice little tench, didn’t bother weighing it but it was a few pound and that was caught on a 20inch zig with the same black and yellow foam and white maggot straight out in front of the island (in one and twos swim but nobody was fishing it)
After that the swim was full of fish, obviously feeding and they were showing their heads, shoulders, tails and taking bait, I then changed all rods to zigs, after that I had another carp, weighing in at 15lb 14oz.
After that I had a few bleeps on my rod every few minutes an my dad went to the loo and his rod screamed off, same time as mine, I picked his up and when I finally got it into the net, I brought my rod in and I thought it had tangled with dads but the fish had actually both hookbaits in its mouth at the same time, so we both said we had a half of fish.
At the end of the day it was a really good session and trying different tactics and once a tactic works, changing rods onto it deffo works.
Back at wellham for a 48hour session, this time on the dam wall. On the Sunday when we arrived the lake started filling up and every peg was took that night apart from 1 and 2. The first day I had numerous line bites, pickups excetra but nothing resulted into a fish, tactics used were cell dumbells tipped off with fake corn on one rod and on one rod I had a zig with half black foam, half yellow foam and instead of a bait stop I use a fake whit maggot, and on the third rod I had a nash 15mm shellfish boilie, snow man style with a nash 10 mm pop up, over 3 rods I scattered boilies.
on the second day the lake had hardly anybody on and we noticed around dinner time there was lots of fish shoaling on the point of the island on peg ten, we took our floater rods and a bucket of dog biscuits and a spod/ spomb rod and went up to peg ten, earlier in the day I heard a guy had been catapulting pop ups out because he had no mixers, not good for the fish, but anyways we took a spomb full of biscuits and cast it to the island and all you seen was loads of backs and fins and tails swarm in onto the bait and they took them so confidently. I used a red chopped down pop up on my floater kit and my dad had a cut down brown pop up. After topping up the swim a few times, my line tightened up and I was onto a 15lb exact common, it was a heavy fight and the while rig was solid with weed and I had only my light floater rod but after a nice battle it netted in.
After that my dad hooked into a carp and if stripped line off the reel, I told him to give it some stick, he didn’t and well lost it. after that we had nothing else, the next morning I woke up about 5am and I had a run and it was a nice little tench, didn’t bother weighing it but it was a few pound and that was caught on a 20inch zig with the same black and yellow foam and white maggot straight out in front of the island (in one and twos swim but nobody was fishing it)
After that the swim was full of fish, obviously feeding and they were showing their heads, shoulders, tails and taking bait, I then changed all rods to zigs, after that I had another carp, weighing in at 15lb 14oz.
After that I had a few bleeps on my rod every few minutes an my dad went to the loo and his rod screamed off, same time as mine, I picked his up and when I finally got it into the net, I brought my rod in and I thought it had tangled with dads but the fish had actually both hookbaits in its mouth at the same time, so we both said we had a half of fish.
At the end of the day it was a really good session and trying different tactics and once a tactic works, changing rods onto it deffo works.
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