Fishing 22/07/08

Well, i decided to head out today to my local about 25mins drive from my house i got everything ready last night and chucked it into the garage ready for this morning, my plan of attack today was pellet and flavours and going after the good head of carp in one of the lakes. So i chose:

*Carp Vader Polar 6mm hookers
*Carp Vader Micros Polars
*Carp Vader Breamax Hookers
*Carp Vader Strawberry Flavour
*Carp Vader Beta Marine Flavour
*Carp Vader Pred Plus Flavour

So i got to my peg on the lake and i set up everything my pole and plumbed up about 3 pole sections out on the bottom about 3 foot deep, i had reeds to my right and left, and lillies to my left in the corner so i had alot of cover for the fish to run to, so i had to bear that in mind when i hooked one, so i pumped my pellets and soaked my micros.

As you can see i have Strawberry, Beta Marine and Pred Plus, and the micros soaked.
I also founs that if you cover the micros pellets and so they go sloppy it is great because you can pot them in with the white juice that comes off them and it creates a cloud that sinks slowly and lasts for 10 mins in the water, so i did this and within 10 mins and a polar pellet on the hook i had my first carp in the net didn't have my scales so i couldn't tell how big. excuse the hair!

After that it went quit for 30mins so i put more feed in, and bang 5 times i hit carp in the space of 15 mins but all came unhooked i was gutted, i was putting some pellet hooks through their paces but wasn't happy with them, as i always use Kamasan Animal hooks, these tied to stroft you could land a scuba diver, they are very strong. Then i put another pot of sloppy pellets in and a Breamax pellet on and i hit into another carp this one looked like a 9lb fish but again i didn't have scales just a camera, it buried the float and hooked itself, so a great take the best all day and it was hooked perfectly in the mouth. Excuse the hair!

I then hit a shole of Bream all over a 1lb, followed by roach all on strawberry pellet so they all had a sweet tooth all caught on the expanders with strawberry over a bed of micros, later on the carp moved back in and i had another two about 4lb each nothing overly big but carp, the guy accros from me in the afternoon caught a 18lb 4oz Mirror Carp, i went and helped he was an elderly guy and it was his PB so i took a picture for him on his camera and he was over the moon, he was only using 6lb line so i bet he was glad he landed it.

Overall i had 15 carp only landed 10 because of these new hooks i was trailing, 4 Bream and 2 roach.
My rig was Carp Bungee Elastic, 8lb Stroft straight through to a 14 Pellet Hook, drennan carp 1 4x12 and stotz.

When i packing up i was gutted i knocked off the open tub of Breamax pellets and fell on the peg face down and i lost 90% of the pellets through the slats in the peg i managed to recover a few for my next outing and this is the pellet i had my big carp on! Never mind.

Regards
Michael