Rob out and about

robvford · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:

cheers dean

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nice fish, good writing

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robvford · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:

back with a bang

been struggling of late with the weather being so up and down, but who cares when you catch them looking like this

single UCN ENZYME pop up did the business

CHADDY321 · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject:

Well done mate........ cracking lookin fish that

chris b · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:40 am Post subject:

very nice indeed rod well in mate

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saul · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:24 pm Post subject:

Very nice

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bigkipper · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject:

cracking fish rob well done mate

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robvford · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:42 am Post subject:

cheers guys

lee .c · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject:

well done mate , good angling , pukka carp ,there be no stoppin you now, well derseved result.

robvford · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

cheers lee

i'll see ya down there this week no doubt

im sure we'll wangle a few out in this weather

robvford · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject:

i arrived at the lake and went for a look around, it didnt take long to find a friend tucked away up in the back bay. with it being such a hot day, and the water level being fairly shallow in this half of the lake i was soon pushing my barrow with enough supplies to last a couple a days. i say enough supplies, i was hoping to beg borrow and steal to see me through.

i staggered the rods at varying distances like all the best textbooks tell you to do. i flicked the left one into a 12foot gully in the margin (did i say it was shallow up here lol ) i catty'd out a good kilo of bait over this rod. the middle rod was blasted to a small dot island with just a stringer for loose feed. the third and final rod was put on top of a gravel bar in about 3ft of water with a few kilos of boilie spread about.

it was quiet for the first two nights, but on the 2nd morning things started looking up.
it was about 11am and i was just contemplating a move into the bigger, deeper half of the lake as it looked pretty dead and lifeless round here when all of a sudden a carp slid silently out the water out towards the dot island. a rod was on the spot within minutes!

i was sat drinking tea when i had a stray bleep on the rod toward the dot island. at first i looked at the moorhen that had just swum past the edge of my rods, but when that bleep turned into another, and then the line pinged from the clip i was on the rod in seconds.
by this stage the light bobbin is rattling around the alarm and the spool clicking away.

the fight wasnt much to speak of, i had my mate in the water and i can honestly say i thought it was a tench. once in the net a carp it was!

23lb 4oz

i packed up and went home for the time being. on arriving back at the lake i set up directly opposite where i was before. not only is it an easier cast but i could bait up more accurately. involving something like a 2 mile walk i hoped it'd be worth it!

once round there i decided on setting up quite far back so as not to disturb my margins.

nothing happened in the night, or the following morning. hmmmmm

i just felt i had to be where i was a few days before. before committing myself to the move i spent a few hours looking. i spotted a carp roll in the middle, but there were anglers fishing to the middle from the other side so i didnt fancy this choice much.

i ended up in a swim to the left of where i caught the carp the other day.

three baits were cast to the far treeline and it wasnt long before i had an absoloute one noter on the middle rod!
my arm was forced to the left as soon as i tightened into it! its power was unreal. the line on my reels were well down. this fight wasnt going to be over in a hurry.

the carp knew what it was doing the whole way in, 15 minutes later and its using the depth of that gully to its full advantage.

once it was nearly beaten i threw the net to the other side of my rods and carried on drawing it toward me.

when it came to picking up the net i had a problem! i was the only one here and my net had come apart at the spreader block, i could now clearly see that i had a nice common waiting to be netted. it was literally sat in the margin waiting patiently! i stripped down, got in, retrieved the net and scooped him up!

i eventually found someone for the pictures (must remember my tripod this week) and we weighed the fish at 23lb 14oz

i fished the weekend just gone and boy did that wind pick up! the alarms were constantly bleeping and i ended up mistaking a dropback for some stray bleeps. when i realised what was going on the rig had been dumped in the silt a few yards from my spot.

am i still kicking myself? i'll let you make up your own mind

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Well done mate, two very nice fish there and a good write up to join them

Good luck with the lake

robvford · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject:

as i sat on the edge of my bedchair i saw a carp roll 80 yards away.
if anything it just confirmed my suspicions that i spent the night in the wrong swim!

i sat and watched the spot for another hour before packing up and moving the short distance to my new swim.

i had witnessed a jacuzzi going on underneath an overhanging branch. easily missed without bino's.
after they stopped feeding i deposited 3 kilos of bait (enzyme and pellet) to the branch with the aid of a boilie rocket. they had been spawning recently, and what better way to replenish there energy then with a bed of good bait.

i tackled up my rods, all with heavy leads and bottom baits as it was a fair chuck to this branch, and with a savage undertow i needed to be sure my rigs would stay put through the afternoon and into the following day.
if anything picked up my bait i wanted to be sure i knew about it.

the left rod was slung about ten yards to the left of the baited patch as a stringer between some weedbeds.

the middle rod was put onto the smooth silt patch where i'd put the bait. definatly fed on recently.

the right hand rod was again, ten yards off the patch, to the right, but further back just behind a bar. that really was a struggle to reach!

confidence was sky high, and this was rewarded at first light the following morning when a ripping take had me running to the middle rod barefoot.
after playing the fish for a fewe minutes i became aware of the feeding carp over my remaining rods!
another take was imminent, and as the right hand rods bobbin pulled tight, pinged from the clip and started screaming i could do nothing but call for help and play the first carp in!

first carp in the net, second rod! but the fish was long gone.

i still packed up a happy chappy with a 22lb mirror to my name.

richchappy · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

have you photoshopped that pic, looks weird lol

nice fish tho
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robvford · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject:

yea i got rid of the background of the lake.

well i say 'i' i meant matt.

richchappy · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject:

ye, looks quite good actually, brings focus onto the fish not lake...
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bigkipper · Posted: Wed May 21, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject:

well done rob

i agree that pic is a cracker

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lee .c · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

last two are stunners

these are the ones you forgot to show me then rob, you snake Mwraahaha

lol

joking aside , great angling rob , getting amongst them now mate!

now send me those pics of my fish

robvford · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject:

had a 20lb 10oz mirror on my first morning.

put out some bait and lost a carp on the second morning!

also had a large bream

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