Well this was another short little session with me making my way to the lake at nearly half past five the glorious sunshine had made way for and overcast evening, but it was still nice and warm.
Upon arriving at the lake I spotted a few small Carp swimming round, well almost circling a single patch of weeds, I stop threw a small handful of mixer biscuits in vicinity of the weed and unpack and set up a single Carp rod ready for a bit of freelining, before I had even had a chance to put a bait on the hook the small handful I had thrown out was quickly being annihilated.
First of all I put two mixer biscuits onto the hook then cast it out further than the circling fish then slowly pulled it back, three Carp swam directly underneath the bait and completely ignored it, I was thinking that the double biscuit on the hook maybe acting as more of a deterrent than an attractant so I reel in and pulled one of the biscuits off and recast the single biscuit back into the same area as the double had just been ignored, almost staight away a larger than the average Gowerton Carp cut a ninty degree turn to gulp down my single biscuit bait and I struck as I watched its mouth close. It went berserk splashing about at first then heading out into the middle of the lake at full steam, after wrestling with it for a few minutes it turned and came straight back in towards me giving me the hard job of trying to bully it out of the weeds at my feet, it finally came to the net after a hard battle and was definitely one of the hardest fights Ive had this year.
And to add a cherry on the cake the scales pulled round to just over 15lb, so after minusing a quarter of a pound for the net, I had just caught my personal best Carp from Gowerton at 14lb and 12oz.
My new Gowerton PB 14lb 12oz
The Carp mat looks small now.
The second and last fish of the session.
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