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Winky
and I spent today trying to work out the location of
a new pit. I had recently gone onto Google Earth and
located a large expanse of water surrounded by
countless trees. For me, a chance to fish a water
that has potentially never been fished is too good
an opportunity to miss! We grabbed a rod each, one
net, un-hooking mat and a backpack full of tackle
and bait. We then proceeded to start our long walk
in the general direction we believed this pit to be.
We soon found ourselves walking through 4 foot high
stingers, brambles and a multitude of other
greenery; the things we do to catch a fish!
After
countless stings from the nettles we finally came to
a clearing and saw what we had hoped to see, a
mature pit that just screamed fish! We both stood
having a good look around, waiting for something to
happen, when right on queue a decent Carp slowly
drifted past us. Excitement wasn't the word, we had
found an overgrown water which obviously hadn't been
fished for ages, and it contained Carp, most
possibly other species too! We both started to feed
mixers to see if there was anything about, and
before long a single Carp showed a bit of interest.
I then threw in some bread crusts and instantly more
Carp appeared on the scene slurping them down. We
both sat patiently getting them confidently feeding,
but before long temptation got the better of us and
we made a cast.
It
took all of a minute to hook the first, which turned
out to be a common of around 5lb. Wink then got on
the score sheet with another Common of a similar
size. I then decided to try something a bit
different. I had also brought with me my Fly fishing
rod, so rigged this up with about 6 feet of clear
6lb mono and a size 10 hook with a small piece of
fake bread as hookbait. I had always thought that
the technique would be good for surface fishing, but
I didn't realise just how good! I could now present
a freelined bait at a great distance with the added
bonus of it being able to accurately place it too.
Before long i had my first Carp on the method, an
immaculate 7lb'er; not big, but a great deal of fun.
I
then noticed a very peculiar looking Carp surface,
it was almost Koi like. I knew straight away that I
wanted to catch it, and after pulling my hookbait
away from multiple other Carp in the process, I
finally did just that. I'm no fish biologist, but it
looked to me more like an albino than a true koi. We
ended with 8 Carp in total, nothing big, but who
knows what else swims in this place!! |
