SURFACE ACTION

I finally managed to grab a couple of hours fishing yesterday evening as the better half is away on hols for the weekend. Surface fishing for carp was the order of the day, and with my tackle all loaded up of I set for the gruelling journey of half a mile up the road. Its quite handy living in the back of beyond as within 5 miles I have at least 5 different fisheries i can tackle.

Well I arrived and was shocked by what I saw. The club water I was planning on fishing has 8 small pits all old and heavily planted with bushes, trees, lilies, reeds etc and all attractive in their own right. One of the pits I fish is/was heavily planted with bulrush and reeds and has numerous hidden swims where you can easily tuck yourself away and catch numerous species of fish. Well look at what they have done to the place. I cannot understand why they have raped this pit like this, there was absolutely no need.
Well after seeing this disgrace I set off to fish one of the other pits on this complex. After flipping a few mixers into a couple of likely areas I sat back and waited for the carp to show. By the way I flavour my mixers with fish oil to enhance their attractiveness to the carp. They give of a nice little oil slick around each bait. In next to no time I spotted a few dark shapes drifting below the freebies and then a pair of lips sucked down a mixer and the others followed suite. I,ve noticed this over the years, that the carp quite often just swim beneath the mixers until one of them is brave enough to take one then they all join in. After giving them a few more mixers and letting them get a bit more confident I dropped in my bait. I only fish close when surface fishing as part of the fun to me is actually watching the carp slurp down my bait. The fish weren,t particularly big but I knew they wouldn,t be, but I don,t care as this is just for thrills fishing like this. Over the course of 30 minutes I managed to back 3 hard scrapping commons upto 6lb before I moved of to a new swim.

After moving around the pit I found a nice secluded swim with some reeds in front and a nice overhanging bush to the right. I,ve had fish from this swim before so knew where the carp would be holding out. A few mixers were flicked beneath the bush and I sat and waited to see if any fish were at home. After a few minutes a nice pair of lips rose to the surface and gently sipped down a mixer. Over a couple of minutes the carp repeated the process. I lowered my bait down to him but unfortunately I must of spooked him as he didn,t come back up. I did notice a few cruising literally at my feet so dapped my mixer in his path and he took it straight away. After a nice tussle a small mirror of around 4lb was on my unhooking mat.

A move to another pit didn,t produce until after an hour as I was about to go home I spotted a fish beneath an overhanging bush. A few freebies flicked out followed by my hookbait and straight away I was in. After a good scrap I banked a lovely common off about 10lb.

That was it for evening, a nice beef stew I hand in the slow cooker was calling. An enjoyable couple of hours was spent chasing pasties, its just a shame about the pit BDAC have destroyed, they should be ashamed.
My stalking kit



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