Saturday, September 01, 2007
Pleasure Fish - Arran's Lake aka Entire Farm 31st August 2007
This session was going to be a teach-in for my nephew Ben on how to catch on good fighting small to medium carp using a number of tactics on a well stocked Commercial fishery. However he was not allowed to come as he had been a bad boy during the summer holidays, but I decided to go as I needed a lift in the catching game.
I arrived at 8am and found all but 6 pegs already occupied and they were at the far end facing the wind. I decided to split the day into two distinct parts – Given that the lake was packed and effectively ‘drew ‘a peg – 36, I would treat the 1st part as a match and a target of 100lb. Then I would treat the remainder of the day as a true pleasure session using a ledger target the bigger fish and set a target of 150lb.
I set up on the korum in-line Method and tip and tried a number of hair rig baits on size 14 Middy hair hook links, Baits = Spam, Sweetcorn, Mini Pineapple Boilie & maggot. Best was the mini Boilie.
The Northerly wind rally kept it cool throughout the day gusting at times making any pole work too hard for a pleasure session so I stuck with the method at 20 metres. Carp came at regular interval basically a fish a chuck, just to show how populated this lake is 5 times during the day I lassoed a fish on the drop! All came off unharmed and no tackle loss.
Best Fish of the ‘match session was a long slim 10lb 12oz Common but I failed in my target after 6 hours only 84lb10oz, Mind you weighing every fish was taking up time probably worth 10lb over the 6 hours so not all that far off. At 230pm went into Pleasure mode and set up a ledger and alarm with 20mm Big John Frozen Pineapple Boilie over 4mm pellet and a few freebies under tree to the left of the peg. Had 6 fish out of there over he next four hours best going to 10lb but were getting the bigger fish – a lot of small ones were picking and dropping the 20mm regularly – had to wait for the run. Twice I had fish on both rods, good fun and managed to land them all.
The day was punctuated by fish running off with peoples tackle not once but FOUR times. The 1st I noticed a top kit circling the centre of the lake – it carried on four an hour when one young lad managed to capture it with his method rig and landed the fish which looked like a double and returned the kit to its grateful owner.
The lads to my left fishing with their Mum had ants in their pants and were not paying attention to their rods. The inevitable happened, A SHOUT OF MY ROD! – followed by Mum saying Your Dad paid £70 for that go and get it – So he stripped off and went in after it needless to say across my swim but got to it and landed the fish. This happened again 2 hours later to his brother who repeated his brothers swimming and fish retrieval technique and shouting it’s a monster playing to the on looking bemused anglers around the lake.
I arrived at 8am and found all but 6 pegs already occupied and they were at the far end facing the wind. I decided to split the day into two distinct parts – Given that the lake was packed and effectively ‘drew ‘a peg – 36, I would treat the 1st part as a match and a target of 100lb. Then I would treat the remainder of the day as a true pleasure session using a ledger target the bigger fish and set a target of 150lb.
I set up on the korum in-line Method and tip and tried a number of hair rig baits on size 14 Middy hair hook links, Baits = Spam, Sweetcorn, Mini Pineapple Boilie & maggot. Best was the mini Boilie.
The Northerly wind rally kept it cool throughout the day gusting at times making any pole work too hard for a pleasure session so I stuck with the method at 20 metres. Carp came at regular interval basically a fish a chuck, just to show how populated this lake is 5 times during the day I lassoed a fish on the drop! All came off unharmed and no tackle loss.
Best Fish of the ‘match session was a long slim 10lb 12oz Common but I failed in my target after 6 hours only 84lb10oz, Mind you weighing every fish was taking up time probably worth 10lb over the 6 hours so not all that far off. At 230pm went into Pleasure mode and set up a ledger and alarm with 20mm Big John Frozen Pineapple Boilie over 4mm pellet and a few freebies under tree to the left of the peg. Had 6 fish out of there over he next four hours best going to 10lb but were getting the bigger fish – a lot of small ones were picking and dropping the 20mm regularly – had to wait for the run. Twice I had fish on both rods, good fun and managed to land them all.
The day was punctuated by fish running off with peoples tackle not once but FOUR times. The 1st I noticed a top kit circling the centre of the lake – it carried on four an hour when one young lad managed to capture it with his method rig and landed the fish which looked like a double and returned the kit to its grateful owner.
The lads to my left fishing with their Mum had ants in their pants and were not paying attention to their rods. The inevitable happened, A SHOUT OF MY ROD! – followed by Mum saying Your Dad paid £70 for that go and get it – So he stripped off and went in after it needless to say across my swim but got to it and landed the fish. This happened again 2 hours later to his brother who repeated his brothers swimming and fish retrieval technique and shouting it’s a monster playing to the on looking bemused anglers around the lake.
Then at 6pm the 1st brother repeated the earlier feat but this has gone a little further and he was complaining he had no pants on so I caught using my method and dragged in again with fish on – which was a nice 5lb Mirror which safely returned no worse for wear for its experience. Mum didn’t even say thanks !!!!
I finished when I had used all on my blended Method Mix and total up and 162lb 10ozs in 10 hours. A new PB pleasure Fish bag.
I finished when I had used all on my blended Method Mix and total up and 162lb 10ozs in 10 hours. A new PB pleasure Fish bag.
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