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Fishing Diary - 28th August 2007 - Bank End Fishery

Bank End Fishery contains three lakes that are imaginatively named East Lake, West Lake and Match Lake. We chose to fish the East Lake. On arrival at the venue, at about 7am, the day was already bathed in brilliant sunshine, and stayed that way for the entire day. The wind was a strong westerly, but we had some degree of protection from a steep bank behind our chosen pegs, I was fishing peg 30.

After setting up, I cast a swimfeeder, loaded with 2mm pellets, out to about 30 meters, adjusted the quiver tip and, being a smoker, lit a cigarette. After the time taken to set up the tackle I always look forward to that first cigarette on the bankside and instead of putting in several feeders full of feed to build up the swim, which is the correct method, I leave the first cast out while I enjoy a smoke. After all, it is leisure fishing and there is no rush or competition involved.

Imagine my surprise when in less than five minutes a powerful bite pulled the rod off the rod rest!

Magic! I grabbed the rod and reeled in the first carp of the day, a mirror carp of about 4lb. In the first twenty minutes my son, Richard, had landed three carp, weighing between 2lb and 4lb. What a start to the day!

The pace continued at this rate all through the morning with the bites coming thick and fast and plenty of carp being landed. The only disappointment was that none of the fish being landed were over 4lb. A third member of our party, Ken, had chosen a different approach and was float fishing a single maggot over a bed of pellets. He too was catching well but, due to the different tactic was catching silverfish as opposed to our carp on the open ended feeders.

By mid day the bites had tapered off and a change of tactics seemed like a good idea. I switched to a method feeder loaded with softened pellets, and Richard switched to a bagging float. Both methods continued to catch throughout the afternoon, but again all the carp we were landing were less than 4lb.

All in all it was a good session in terms of the number of fish we took out, but would have been better if we could have managed some heavier weights. Due to the size of the fish we were catching I have no photos of this session, the small fish did not warrant their being photographed.



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