RAMBLINGS

Hi I am going to start this piece by the sad news this week of the death of the Black Mirror from the lake called the mere The Internet forums where on melt down sunday night when the news broke. There was rumors being branded about how the lake seemed to die over night. some where saying that the lake was poisoned. It was not just the black mirror that died Every thing in the lake died roach,perch. and even snails where found dead. But 4 days after the event it seems that there was an algae bloom crashed so causing depleted oxygen levels unbelievable that this can happen. It has been such a bad year for some of our big well know carp Benson, Two Tone just to name a few have all passed away this summer is it coincidence or or is it down to the weather? the long harsh winter we had. Lets just hope that this is the last of the fish deaths for a very long time.

I have now pulled off wellingbro lakes for now and have now started to fish another water which i will call dogleg for now. Had a trip there Sunday and was shocked at how many carp is in there. The weather report for sunday was for showers but it turned out to be a nice blue sky warm day. After a quick walk around the lake i set up in a swim at the bottom of the lake. Having never seen the lake before i only went with the bear essentials 2 rods and a rucksack for terminal tackle. Which was the wrong thing to do as the fish wanted to swim around on top and sun themselves. They looked just right for a chum mixer or two sadly that sort of fishing gear was left at home. Any way with so many carp in my swim i just put a couple of rods out on some spots that i found. Again i had no takes but i did find out a lot more about the lake that intend to fish for the next few months. I must say that i am really looking forward to being there again hopefully the bank holiday weekend and i will get the rods in. Also i have changed my main line to x-line it was not cheep to do but i am hopefull that it will help put some fish on the bank It seems ok now i have had a few casts with it and has settled down on the spools The only thing that i have found you have to do is run the line threw a rag at the end of the session to keep it clean you will be shocked how much dirt gets on the line something that i never thought about till i started using fluoro line.

Well thats all for now thaqnks again for taking time to read this.
Russ

Hi

Hi Sorry its been a while since i posted anything on the blogg it's down to making time to do it to be honest plus you need to have something to put in it. Since i came back from France the bad luck continues lol A few weeks ago the weather took a change for a couple of days when it started to rain with the change in conditions it was a good time to go to MK for an evening session. I rushed home from work had a bite to eat and a quick bath and was on the bank within an hour. To make things a lot better as well i was the only one there. Standing in the rain waiting for some thing to show it was not long so set up the rods and put 2 rods nicely on the spots one about 40 yards and the other a bit further out at a round 60 yards. It did look good with no wind and a flat clam water
i new i was going to have one before the end of the night. The rain started to get more heavy at 21.15pm So with time running out i started to put my stuff away laying the rods on the grass at 21.35pm the right hand reel started to peel line i was in and after a nice slow plodding sort of fight the mirror was in the net.
It was an old friend of mine it was the last fish i had out of MK last year and it was my 1st fish of this year how mad is that!! I was excited to get this one on the scale's as i was told that he had been out 2 weeks before at 31-12 which would have been my first one past 30lb plus To my dismay it went on the scales at 30-08 o well i was still over the moon another 30lb fish under my belt and made the effort of getting soaking wet all worth it.
The parrot at 30-08

Since that fish things have not been going that well on my syndicate i have not had a fish out of there since the 9th may. Its a bit harder this year with the weed being so aggressive But we are going to plod on and try and get something that i have never had before and that's a linear. The pursuit of one has started.
Till next time thanks for taking time out to read this.
Russ

Monday 2nd week

Its about time i have had one a welcome fish i am made up. Taken on plastic corn something i never would use back in England At 32lb i am well chuffed i just hope it's the start of things to come Martin is doing really well catching a few it is keeping him intrested

Friday Day 7 End of the 1st week

Its the end of the 1st week and what a week it's been Merv and Martin are the one's doing the catching. I am very down at the minute and frustrated again i have had nothing. Martin lost a good fish last night at about 11.00pm Merv and Tich are struggling to get amongst them as the weather has turned very hot the temps is in the high 30's and the fish are just laid sunning themselves on top.

Thursday Day 6

Merv continues to catch steady and has 3 fish this morning Biggest a 52-04 plated mirror which Tich had last year at 47lb so the fish are putting on the weight. As for me i have now moved swims to the other side of the lake. Apart from one take and a lost fish Saturday night that is all i have had not a bleep in 5 days so made up my mind to move on to showing fish.
The swim i am now in is on the opposite side of the lake and in the middle It's great for viewing the whole lake. Got 3 new spots all marked up with h-blocks and feeling good about the move
One spot is in a 9 foot hump that falls all sides to 13foot and is rock hard on the top feels like the fish have been feeding hard on this spot. The other 2 rods are are sat in 12 foot and 13 foot at the back of weed beds. As for the weed it is now clear that the lads really did a worst job than what we 1st thought. Seems they put the rake in the middle of the lake and pulled back from there once the rake was full it just flattened the weed in front of it because now after a few days of lying flat the weed is now popping up and you can see just how thick it is it will be unfishable in a few weeks if Chris does not do it again.

Monday Day 3

Martin got me on the 2 way radio at 3.10am and told me he had a lump in the net and would go and help him out. I went round after to getting myself together. I new right away that it was a fish he said he would have liked on this trip and the scales confirmed it a 50-03LB mirror That's what he wanted from this trip a 50 and his 1st fish was a 50 how good was that.

The weather today so perfect with a nice cool wind blowing across towards the top of the lake which is where most of the fish are showing towards martin and merv. Early afternoon and merv is in to his 1st fish a stunning chestnut mirror and tipped the scales at 42-08 while Tich opened his account with a nice looking 26LB mirror. Things are not going to plan for me yet but with 3 new spots i found today hopefully it will happen soon lol

Sunday Day 2

Let me say that i will not be posting every day but will post on most of the trip and what happened.

The 1st night was not that productive which i would say is the norm for this type of lake with guys packing and leaving and new guys turning up and settling in for the week it will be a day or two for things to get back on track. I went out in the boat and found more spots to bait up not an easy job as the weed was so bad. The guy's that was on the week before was there to rake the lake and remove the weed but to be honest they did a pretty poor job of it it was soon clear that this was going to be hard work again. Just like last year if and when you hooked a fish you at to get in a boat to have any chance of landing it. It's not a good thing to do at say 1.30am in the pitch black of night being in a boat.

Me merv and tich all had runs saturday night but none on the bank Martin was yet to get his rods out!