Long Time

Hi is it really 3 months since i last put a post up my how time fly's. Well things have been very slow on the fish side of things i spent the last 2 months of my syndicate fishing the lake with the complex big common in.  It was a case of if it goes it goes a run i mean. I started in a swim that don't really get a lot of lines in its one they call the deep corner i have no idea why as it was not that deep anyway i had done 3 weeks in there when Easter bank holiday's came round which meant i had an extra day to dangle the rods'
  Flash text me on the sunday to tell me he would call in on his way home from his water for a brew on the bank holiday monday. Sure enough at around 7.30am i was woken with the usual greeting "morning gay" it was flash true to his word there he stood with his mug waiting for me to put the kettle on.  After a few minutes we both sat watching the water for anything that looked like a carp showing its self in the dawn sunshine when all of a sudden the middle rod bobbin started to lift and because the tips of the rod was high in the air we both sat as the line lifted and was getting tighter.  The delkim burst into life and i just sat there looking with my mouth wide open i was in shock it was a run from a lake that only had 20 or so fish in it.
        It must have been only seconds when i heard the shouting from the nutcase sat at the side of " Don't just look at it hit it" flash was shouting . i jumped up and kicked off the crocs so i could get the waders on first the right foot then the left but the left foot wouldn't go in the top of the boot it had squashed itself in and i couldn't get it on  "just run in fuck the boots man" i heard flash shout again. No way was i going in with no boots the water was still freezing from winter I sat on the ground still struggling to get the left boot on so thought it was best just to sort it out sat down rather than risk falling in the lake by being over balanced.
     Flash by this time was ready to jump in and grab the rod himself. He liked to do that now and again when he has a run he did it last year when he thought he had his first take on this very lake but it turned out to be coot There he stood wet threw up to knees in his trainers and tracky bottoms. O how we laughed.   Anyway back to me getting my waders on which i finally did pulling the shoulder straps up as i run in and grab the rod it bows over as the carp gets the hook deeper into the lip. After a short fight the carp was safely in the net a lovely looking common of 28-08 was soon weighed and photoed before it was back in its home.

That fish came out of the blue i never thought that it happen after all But that was not the last one i had out of the lake i kept the bait going in on the spots before i left hoping that no one would be in the swim come fridays when i got there. Again i arrived on friday night and was happy that the swim was empty again.
   The rods went out on the spots with not to much trouble and a kilo of bait was put out too then it was a case of sitting back and enjoying the weekend with the hope that i could repeat what happened last week.

 It was Sunday morning before anything happened the right hand rod went in to melt down when an mr carp thought he was clever and picked up my chodded hookbait.   Everything went smooth this time i was in the waders and pulled into the fish with out any problems whats so ever. The fish did how ever did put up a bit of a struggle once or twice it gave me a heart stopping moment as the line pinged off its dorsal fin and i thought it had lost the hook hold but it was soon in the bottom of the net looking sorry for it's self  It was another of the lakes commons not one of the big commons that swam in there at only 23.00lb it was great just to have a it because the lake is not an easy lake to fish that was two fish in as many sessions i was a happy man.

  The plan was working but it was short lived because in the week that followed after the 23lb common the lakes and complex big girl was caught although down in weight at 43lb. Well that was that i never expected to catch it  when i started to fish the lake and end my year on there but but with the second common i had hook i must admit i was thinking that i had a chance. That had gone now and i was calling it a day on the complex i had had enough months of blanking and disappointment had got the better of me and it was time to call it a day and say goodbye

  This is a video blog i did about the deep corner swim i was fishing

Till next time have a good un
Russ