News From Gary - 25th July, 2008

Mark Twin sent me a report which nicely sums up a good nights fishing. I'll let Mark tell it. I've included all the pics Mark sent me, including the silly face and the camera shake, it makes it real in my opinion.

Last Saturday I fished the day ticket lake with my brother
(Daniel) and four of our children. We did not arrive till 4pm and with 5 other anglers already fishing there we decided to fish near to the stock pond.

We had just got the rods set up and just started putting
up the tents when one of my brothers alarms let out a 1 toner. After fighting the fish for 15 minutes and myself having to get into the margins to untangle the line from the reads we weighed the mirror and it took the scales to 14lb 9oz.

We didn't receive our next fish till 7:45. Again it was Daniel who caught it, another mirror this time 12lb.

Two anglers were fishing the other side of the lake and spodding out loads of bait to the middle. With the wind blowing towards us we decided to get our rods near to where he was feeding, from our side of the lake (about 10 yards short of the spot). This turned out to be the best move of the night. I had a 4lb 2oz Tench on a rod fishing in another area before the rods near the spodded area were taking it in turns to scream off.

I ended up with a new PB of 19lb 14oz mirror, another of 17lb 11oz and 6 others. Daniel caught one more mirror in the night weighing 10lb 14oz.

We only fished till 7:30am to get home to spend the day with the rest of the family.

All our fish were caught on 20mm scopex red robin boillies fished with a stringer of freebies. I feel a thank you is owed to the 2 anglers who threw all the ground bait.

Our catch report was as follows,

5pm                      14lb 9oz                Mirror
7:45pm                 12lb                       Mirror
8pm                      4lb 2oz                  Tench
8:10pm                 8lb 8oz                  Leather
8:45pm                 9lb 8oz                  Mirror
9:15pm                 19lb 14oz             Mirror
10pm                    10lb 14oz             Mirror
Midnight               9lb 8oz                 Common
1:45am                 11lb 5oz                Mirror
5:30am                 17lb 11oz              Mirror
5:50am                8lb 1oz                 Mirror
7am                       12lb 13oz             Mirror

Best regards Mark

I've been a bit to busy the last two weeks and haven't kept up very well with the news reports. I'm sorry about that, I did intend to keep up with anything happening or not.

To be honest though I have said it before, it is hard to write anything without news from the anglers, so a big thank you to Mark, Cheers mate.

I know some of you like to play it down, like the angler who had a brace of twenties and didn't want to report them because he likes the quietness of the lake. Lots of fishing space is nice I know, its what I prefer which is why I love the mid week overnighters, but it doesn't half make this job (writing news) hard work.

Well, anyway, I fished the weekend last week, 19th of July on the syndicate lake, and blanked. Brilliant!!!!!!!!

It did put me on site though so here's the report of the day ticket lake, as accurately as possible.

Three anglers on the point to the shallows area had 35 fish between them. The chap in the shallows was unlucky because there was an awesome amount of fish in there early Friday evening. The temperature dropped with a cool wind and the fish never really moved back in there the rest of the weekend. I honestly thought he was going to really cane them and felt sorry for him but he still managed 8 which considering the weather change was good angling.

Ben from the syndicate took a guest onto the day ticket lake on Saturday night. They spodded loads of hemp and bait out before casting the rods out and had loads of action on and near it. Ben caught 6 but his guest had an incredible 24 takes, landing I think 18 fish.

On the far bank, opposite Ben and his mate the Twin brothers had their catch so in all there was more than 60 carp caught which isn't bad considering I was on the nextdoor lake, blankin.!!!!!!!!

I'll try to keep you informed whats happening

Cheers Gary