BAYESWATER NEWS

It was an hot weekend last week 8/9th of august. The weather sent most of the carp to the surface on both lakes, with probably every carp on site visible.

Anne and I had a slow walk around the syndicate lake and saw fish in nearly every swim on the Saturday. There was fish close in that were really easy to see and observe. I saw a very good fish in the pump corner, definitely one of the biggest in the lake, certainly 35 plus. This sighting had me returning in the evening to fish till Sunday night. I did see some activity on the Sunday morning but ended up blanking, again!

The only fish of the weekend on the syndicate was on Sunday evening when Tony had a 17 pound common at around 11.30pm. It was hot though and I saw several un-interested fish basking in the weed between pegs 2 and 3 while filling the new swims in a bit more.

Over on the dayticket lake there was loads of fish on the surface, so many in fact that I had to have a go for them "on the top". I struggled a bit with the ever changing breeze drifting my free offerings about but managed 4 fish plus one lost after a fight and 2 "bumped" of on the take.

Normally I catch them easy on cut down pop-up hookbaits but I struggled to get bites like that and "bumped" the 2 chances of on the pop-ups. I then used soft hookable biscuit hookbaits straight on the hook and had the last 5 bites fairly easy, landing 4 high doubles.

While I was fishing on the top John Sleep was fishing just up the bank and had a go as well, catching his first surface fished Bayeswater carp, seen pictured here. John started of using a conventional light controller but had to borrow one of my Nash Bolt Machine controllers to reach the fish. Johns controller is seen here in action. They really are awsome pieces of kit and mean you can cover all distances on the surface. I like to spod my free offerings out and when the wind keeps changing all of the time the Bolt Machines keep me right on the fish.

On the Sunday morning John's mate had a go on the surface, with my tackle I lent them and caught 3 to 19 pound. So in all there was more fish caught on floater per rod hour than there was on the bottom, hardly surprising really when all the fish were on the surface.

One of the syndicate lads had 3 or 4 fish on zig rigs on Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning but also pulled out of at least as many as he caught. I don't know why this was so, maybe it was a bit like on the floating bait fishing, they were not really interested so were not taking the baits confidently.

On Sunday afternoon I stalked one out of the shallows and later on an angler turned up and had them feeding of the top pretty quick. I saw him catch one within about an hour and he was gone about an hour after that, in and out, good angling.

All this action came with very little time spent fishing high in the water. There was only one or two fish caught of the bottom during the whole weekend. Honestly, I did try to convince people to fish high in the water. It was the only way to fish in the conditions, that and the extreme margins, 2-3 foot deep where I did see several catchable fish.

If the weather stays hot it is imperative you fish zigs, floating baits, close in the margins (setting up as far back from the water as possible) or in shallow water, not just at Bayeswater but anywhere you might be fishing.

Cheers

Gary

John Sleep with his first floater caught Bayeswater fish

Nash Bolt Machine in action

They never like to give in!