We arrived at the lake a little after midday after having a quick walk around and knowing we were only here for a quick over night session I decided to fish the same spots.
After going through my routine of casting out,clipping up,marking my line etc it was time to choose the rigs. Over the left hand rod (which was going to be the particle rod again) I fished a combi rig with 2 popped up bits of corn. The other 2 rods would go across the far margin, both were on standard bottom bait rigs with a pva stick on to mask the hook in case of snagging the tree during the cast, as the 2 boilie spots were tight into the tree line.
The first couple of hours past without any interest,conditions weren't brilliant with a cold easterly wind howling down the lake. Half past 3 came and I started to get a few indications on the particle rod,the bobbin lifting up and down ,the usual indications you get when a few fish are in the swim, 20 minutes later it roared off.The lead ejected on the take causing the fish to come up above the weed, 5 minutes later there was a lovely common on the bank, another really pretty clean fish. After slipping it back I re-cast to the same spot and put a few more spods out over the top, hoping to snag another quick fish.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be. After having some food and discussing the options with Lee, I decided to re-cast the 2 boilie rods. Whilst walking up to the rods from Lee's camp (which wasn't far away from mine) the right hand boilie rod didn't scream off, but rather plodded away quite gradually as if the fish didn't know it was hooked! Until I lifted up into it and then all hell broke loose. After what can only be described as a 20 minute battle from weed bed to weed bed, snag to snag, the 2nd fish of the set was on the bank. A stunning common and my biggest off the lake so far. Although still not one of the monsters that are in this lake, slowly but surely they were getting bigger for me!
By the time I slipped this one back it was early evening the wind had picked up, so I decided to pull all the rods back and put some bait on the spots for the night to come,I then had a quick cup of tea and a chat with Lee. Lee wasn't feeling the peg he was in and didn't think it would produce a bite, so he decided to move to a peg further down the lake. After helping Lee move I headed back to my camp,the reason I didn't put the rods straight back out onto the spots was to let any fish come and have a free feed to build their confidence. After getting the rods back on the spot a couple of hours later and making sure I had rigs ready for the night I decided to get in my bivvy and get my head down.
The next thing I knew it was 7am and I crawled out my bivvy to see Lee landing his first fish of the set, another beautiful fish as they all have been out of here,just showing that being able to read the swim and having the confidence to move pegs during a short set can pay off. Well played Lee.
After battling the elements for the next few hours with no success I decided to call it a day whilst Lee decided to carry on and stay until early evening, to see if he could nick another bite but unfortunately this wasn't to be.
Although the hunt for the bigger ones still continues it was nice to bag a couple if fish in conditions that weren't perfect.
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