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bite at any moment as fish were
constantly present no more
than 6 feet from rig and really
active . As the previous night
it was uneventful and I felt the
fish had moved out in the cover
of darkness as they weren’t to
be seen in the morning. Around
11am on the Wednesday Leon
fishing down the far end had
maggots and crushed cell,
one rod was fished with a
10mm long yellow zig foam
to balance out 7 maggots and
I put another in there with a
yellow s2 pop up , I had to try
a lure them out as they were
c l e a r l y h a p p y i n t h e r e.
Around 4 pm I had an
occurrence on the maggot
a double take, I reeled in and
got down there to see him
land a pair of 35lbers , a lovely
mirror and a common which I
think had caught him out while
playing it thinking it was the
biggun, photos and filming
done a trotted off back to my
corner with a spring in my step
, these fish were catchable all
be it on singles to shows.
I decided to go the other way
with baiting; it was my last
night potentially ever at this
lake and the chance of a British
record fish was swimming
around in only 6 acres of water
in front of me.
I redid my rods this time
with around 2 pints of
r o d, a s m a l l d r o p b a c k , 2
bleeps I was straight on
i t a n d l i f t e d i n t o t h i n a i r, I
d i d n ’t t h i n k i t w a s t a k e b u t
the lead had moved and in my
mind i could see my supple
rig being tangled or leaf litter
on the hook point, I was a bit
gutted as the anticipation
of the bite is unreal when
t h e r e ’s a 6 0 s w i m m i n g a b o u t
and thought that may have
b e e n m y o n l y c h a n c e.
By this time the weather
had taken a turn , 50-60 mile
an hour winds , hale , sleet
, sunshine we had the lot
and cold with it, I redid the
again with another full load of
maggots in bush wacker and
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