Looking forward to the summer and a new water's to get to grips with. I first saw these lakes when i was fishing wellingboro lakes i had seen anglers set up across the river but finding anything out about them was hard work everyone i spoke to seemed not to no or did not want to say anything so info was the 1st step to over come. Then on a forum a guy called Dani on there was doing his dairy on his season on a set of lakes. The fish was stunning big common's after big common's was going in to his net along with other big carp mirrors and linear's graced his net all stunning fish. And they was all coming out the lakes i was looking at. After a few pm's between dan and me i had phone numbers and names of who to get in touch with my name went on the list and it was a case of finger's crossed and hope for the best. The old members are asked in march if they want to rejoin so i was to find out in April if i had got a ticket or not. One or two of my mates where getting the phone call to see if they wanted there tickets when i had a call off Richard (The head bailiff ) saying if i wanted a ticket i had so many days to accept it i did not need any days to think about it and told him i would take up the offer there and then on the phone Happy Days.
The ticket would not start till 1st june i would be in France the first week so could not get down there for my first trip till the 3rd week of june. Also because of my leg still not 100% right i could not arrange to meet up with Richard and have a walk round the lakes to see what i was getting for my price tag of £600.
With France out of the way and we was well in to june the first friday that i was going to go down the lakes had come work seemed to drag that day but 5.00pm came in the end and it was home bathed fed and watered and the van loaded in double quick time. I was heading down the A1 by 6.10pm looking forward to the weekend. An hour and fifteen minutes later and i was unlocking the gate while counting the cars in the carpark. 12 cars was there all ready so not too bad. I loaded the barrow up went over the foot bridge had a quick think to which way to go left or right. I had had a look on google earth so new that if went right i would go between two of the lakes so thats what i did sure enough i came to a split that was between the lakes both lakes looked carpy and time was knocking on so i walked down the causeway to the middle of the lake on my right it was a biggish swim with reeds that had cut outs in them to put the rods in it was a case of putting the rods in the water ( Good job i had chest waders ) I thought it was a good place to start lets get some rods in for the night and have a better look around the next day.
I manged to get a couple of choddy's chucked out and a bit of bait on the zones before it started to get dark with the bivvy put up and the bedchair sorted the kettle was on the go i thought i would look on the website and see what lake i was on i had no idea to be honest. After a quick look on the mobile seems i had picked the prison lake and looking at the website it seemed to have the most fish in with a common that goes to 40lb at certain times of the year. With only me another angler on the lake a mate of mine called yoda i thought well this lake will do The idea being that i would stick with it till such times i got fed up or i caught all the fish in there lol Why fish the other lakes when this one had everything going for it lots of carp up to 40lb and only 2 of us on it every week
After a good nights sleep i was up at first light watching the water again the kettle was on and the sun was getting up everything was looking good for a bite . Yoda was up too he had all ready started his campaign 2 weeks earlier and he was still yet to see any signs of carp so spotting carp was not going to be easy. After 1.00pm i reeled in and went for a walk around the lake and for a chat with yoda Every swim was the same rods in the water and cut outs for the rods but the lakes was stunning they all oozed carp the lake to my left was the carpark lake that had the biggest common in on the complex at 45lb. After a good long chat i went back to my swim got the rods back out and watched the water some more till night time came it was a stunning nene valley sun set that slowly turned in to night i sat there till 1.00am listening for any thing that might sound like a carp in the water before falling a sleep.
Morning came and a round 10.30am yoda came round to say he was off as he had a 2 1/2 hour drive home we both agreed that we would stay on the lake and see what happens in the next few weeks. Not long after i said my farewell to yoda i was locking the gates behind me ready for my trip home but as i did i took a look at the lakes thinking how exciting the coming season was going to be.
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