With the form that the old lake had been in I was looking forward to being back on there. The form pegs had been around the island, somewhere that I have a good knack of drawing so that's a good day coming right? wrong! Peg 74 was stuck to my hand, great in the winter in the reeds, but not so great when the fish are in a hungry mood and out in the lake feeding.
Putting my box down on the peg and the reeds were lifeless apart from an odd small roach, not a good sign. I still put up two rigs for the rushes, same as usual there, in-line Preston pinks to .18 line and purple hydro if the fish hopefully did turn up! I put up a rig for my right margin as well, although I wasn't sure it would go, right next to the bank there was near 4ft of water and I wanted half that. Still on good gear, purple hydro to .18 line. The next line was for at 13m in to the open water in just over 5ft of water. A .4gr handmade float to .16 line and a 14 latex. I also put up a shallow rig to fish about 2ft, using a 4x10 PB2 on .16 to Preston 15h.
On the whistle half a pot of hemp with a sprinkle of meat and corn went out long before I dropped into the edge. Just as I dropped in the edge the wind started to blow and swirl (flat calm in the picture you'll see, just five minutes before the all in!), another bad sign as it pushes the fish out of the reeds, not that there were any in there! Twenty minutes in and bite less then I'm out on the long line. Odd knocks on meat from small fish follow, with nothing on corn. At this time angler opposite has a lump of about 7-8lb in the margin, while the reg to my right also had a small fish, also from the margin. At this time I decided to start feeding my right margin, just flicking meat and corn in by hand as something different; dumping bait in hasn't worked lately for me. Nothing followed so I dropped back in to the reeds and missed a bite, although I suspected it was just a roach.
A good hour later and nothings changed, and nobody else near was catching too so I decided to try dripping an odd bit of bait in the reeds to try and make something happen. A liner out long persuaded me to flick a few pellets out for quarter of an hour before trying the shallow rig, but with the swirly wind it just didn't feel right. I noticed a fish swirl in the reeds, and just after dropping in there and instantly I've got a fish on, hurrah! A 3lb'er in the net quick and is followed by another bite next chuck but it comes off. A quick re-feed and another bite gives a carp, all 3oz of it! Nothing more followed so I dropped into the margins to my right, fully expecting nothing to happen, so was massively surprised when the float buried! A 4lb mirror gave a good account of it's self, and was quickly followed by two of his mates the same size before the fish were gone again. No matter what I tried I couldn't get another bite, and everyone else around me was in the same boat.
For the first time in a while I decided to pack up with 15 minutes to go, as did those around me. Sitting in a cold north wind just didn't seem worth it. Still, I'm glad I brought a jacket with me unlike some!
Those that were out of the wind did a bit better, although the lake didn't fish quite as well as recently, 56lb won with 44lb 2nd and near 40lb 3rd. And for some reason, even though I didn't draw the scales, I ended up helping with the weigh-in, still, it did let me see some fish!
No blog next week, I'm going to the coast for the weekend to chuck big leads in the sea, hoping for it to chuck a few fish back at me! A bit of a break after struggling before I think I'll be fine tuning the gear down for Autumn for the week after when hopefully I can catch a few fish, else you've got no reason to be reading this! See you in a fortnight!
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