Who says all carp fishing goes to plan!

Published by: Catch a carp (MOD) on 6th Jul 2011 | View all blogs by Catch a carp (MOD)

Have you ever had one of those days when everything seems to be rushed and doesn’t seem to go right? Saturday was one of those days, I had planned to go carp fishing overnight, aiming to get there about 4 – 5 pm.  Saturday was busy with having to do the garden since we had someone viewing the house (hoping to sell), followed by going into town and then cleaning the car. Unfortutely it all over ran and I was getting annoyed but still determined to go fishing.

 

Eventually I arrived at Sibsons lake around 6.30pm, the weather was a lovely summer evening, warm but the lake was flat calm with fish cruising around on the top all over. A walk around revealed that none of the 3 people fishing had caught anything and 2 further guys were just setting up.

 

My favourite spot was free and I had determined that I would use my bait boat to drop spod mix with boilies and my hook bait in one spot, this is towards the far bank where there is a pronounced bar. The bait boat had just come back from repair following a loan, which when I got it back it didn’t work. Bait was Nash squid boilies for the first rod and these went out in the bait boat fine and the rod was put on the rests/alarm. I was getting hungry now but thought I will get the 2nd rod out before eating. Annoyance having loaded the boat with bait and baited hook this time with cell boilies the boat hinged door came open depositing all my bait and terminal tackle in the edge. Arghh, a quick check revealed that some of the spod mix had prevented the door fully closing, so clean all inside the lip. Reload boat and drive it out to the LHS of the existing rod and drop the bait + terminal tackle.

 

Time to unload my remaining tackle and get some dinner, I was feeling quite hungry by now. Within 20 mins the cell rod was away, and I was into my first fish, things were looking good! The fish soon capitulated, and after a short fight it was in the net, a 10lb mirror, which was a good start! Reload bait boat and back out! I finished getting most of my gear sorted and then elected to redo the first rod, low and behold the bait boat door fell open again before getting it to the water. Damn! Reload boat and get the rod back out, the boat was driven out the bait dropped and then, the boat had a total failure with no control and no motors. What is going on? I thought I would leave it and let it drift round to the far bank where I could recover it. In the meantime I have dinner since I’m absolutely starving by now. Nothing like some beef ravioli with some bread and butter! Shortly after finishing dinner the rod fishing with cell is off again, andt this time produced a bream of about 6lb.

 

A couple of chaps had now turned up and were enquiring how things were going. Well some things are very good and some very bad I replied. My bait boat had now stuck on what I thought was against weeds on the far bank. Which after some discussion we agreed would be better recovered now rather than running the risk of having £400 worth of bait boat disappear. I wound the rods in and took my landing net and a small towel. On arriving on the other side of the lake, it wasn’t going to be that easy, what had looked like being stuck against the far bank was in reality 15 yds out from the bank on a never before seen small island, part of the bar. The lake was well down despite all the rain, and I had never seen this island appear before. Finding the narrowest strip of water to the bar found me well away from the small island. Obviously drastic action was called for, so off with clothes and down to underpants! Into the water (fortunately this was quite warm) which very quickly was up to my neck resulting in a swim to the bar with the landing net, clambering onto the bar I then waded down the bar to the small island using the landing net to check out the bottom. Hurrah, bait boat recovered! It looked like the on off switch was somehow defective and yet it had only just been replaced. Swim back to shore with boat and landing net, followed be a quick dry off and get clothes back on. I do believe the couple of chaps who had turned up took a photo of me on the small island with their camera phone before departing.

 

Getting back to my peg, I decided that it would be extremely unwise to use the bait boat again until I had checked it out. So it was back to using PVA sticks with loose fed boilies for now. Rods back out and as the sun was now disappearing I had to get the bivvy up fairly sharpish, followed by a well deserved cup of coffee.

 

During the night I had 2 further runs, resulting in 2 more bream, 1 of approx 4lb on cell boilie and 1 of 6lb on a 20mm nash boilie (I thought 20mm boilies were supposed to put bream off?). Come Sunday morning the sun soon burnt away the morning mist and the lake was flat calm with the carp cruising round the top again. Time to pack away! Who said carp fishing was relaxing?

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