More evenings!

This last week has been long and short on spare time as it was my late shift week in the new job and getting home at 7.10pm every night and working Saturday till 2pm meant very little time for my regular bankside jaunts. 

That aside I ventured out on Saturday evening for a 3 hour session back down my local urban club water. There was only one other angler on the pond so I headed back to the area I fished last week and dropped two baits onto likely spots. I've been doing very well recently on Gemini fused low Ronnie booms with either a pop up or wafter presented tight to the bottom. 

The venue is quite shallow at 2-5 feet and a mixture of clay, stones and silt. Lead core and other leaders are banned, so tubing is the only available option and in a clay/gravel option they blend quite nicely into the bottom makeup. 

As the evening progressed a couple more anglers arrived to fish. The lake was decidedly quiet throughout and it was around 9pm I got my only real piece of action....a very positive take on the Nutty bait natural wafter. 

The spool spun as the fish took off on an abrupt run to the right. A good scrap ensued and after a great fight I eventually sunk the net under a lovely 19lb mirror. I grabbed a couple of pictures and slipped her back as the rain started to come in and I wanted to get home before I got a drenching! 

Sunday morning came round and I had a few jobs to do at home including washing the cars and getting myself ready for work on Monday morning. By 3pm I was ready to get back out with the rods again over to the club lake. 

On arrival there were 3 already on and another 5 about to set up! Busy busy! I grabbed the swim next to the one I fished the prior night to target a similar area that I had seen fish in all week. As I was setting up in the rain I saw 3 different fish clear the water in my spots. 

I couldn't pole the rigs out as the wind was too strong for that meaning I had to cast instead. I opted to put both rigs on to small pva mesh bags of crumbed up Nutty Bait with the obligatory pop up on one and a wafter on the other. Both slung into the likely areas. I sat for around 2 hours without so much as a sniff. 

As the light started to slide away a bit Mike set up next to me and proceeded to catch a chunky bream on his solid bag and pellet approach. By now the wind was dropping away nicely and I could finally change my approach a bit and place both rods out with the baiting pole at around 45M. 

Rigs were placed in the pole and shipped out with a good 20 or so crumbed Nutty baits and 4-5 solid baits in the pot. We sat and chatted a bit before finally half hour later at around 6pm I got my first take of the day. 

The rod rattled off nicely and a nice common of 16lb 2oz fought right up to the last! I got the rod ready to go back out and suddenly heard my other rod bleeping....another great take on the right hand rod! This fish felt much better and ran me ragged around the area I was fishing. 

The fish stayed deep and fought really hard for a good 8-9 minutes before finally succumbing to the net. I popped her on the scales and she went 18lb 3oz. Both rods now out the water meant I had a bit of prep work to do to get them both back out fishing again. Baits were reapplied to the rigs and floated out to the same spots with the Bush Wacker again and I sat back for a chat with Mike. 

It didn't take long before the left hand rod was once more off again with a great take. This fish fought a bit different to the last two and after a few minutes I was the captor of a very pretty Zip Linear mirror. What a stunning fish....one of a couple in the lake and in pristine condition. I got the rods back out but unfortunately that was it for the session as things went decidedly quiet thereafter. I'm hoping to get out for a longer session this coming weekend all being well as I have Friday afternoon until Monday evening off work. Hopefully I can find somewhere to fish!