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day and saw my son Brodie off
to school before making the
journey up from Wellington in
Somerset to Chesham some 3
hours away.
Dan who’d organised the trip
and Leon where already there
and set up down the far end of
the lake and another lad had
just turned up as well , he’d
fish gave me an opportunity
and I lowered my 5 bits of corn
on a slip d rig in an area where
most of the activity had been
, it must have been there for
3 hours with fish all over it
including the biggun without
a pick up , these fish were
wised up!
In my eagerness I decided to
had a walk around and not
seen much and had decided
to fish the social swim in the
middle of the pond.
I went for a lap of the lake
but was stopped in my tracks
on the first corner by the car
park , I saw a fish flank and the
water was chocolate compared
to the rest of the lake, I sat
and watched for 20 mins and
thought this will do me , half
the lake to myself and massive
tree lined margin with nearly
the entire stock in front of me
. I quickly set a rod and went
stalking in the corner , there
were fish everywhere and
thought I’d get a quick bite
then set up, eventually the
get another rod in the zone ,
this was my downfall as it was
only 3-4 foot deep and within
5 mins a coot had picked it up
and taken me into the bush ,
with all that commotion the
fish drifted off and I was left
with my tail between my legs
wondering what to do next,
but on the plus side I had seen
it up close and personal .
I did the night in the car
park swim which was quiet
but I did have an interesting
phone conversation with Andy,
I went along the line of , why
aren’t you in big carp corner
, it ain’t called that for no
reason, he also informed me it
had been out to yellow hook
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