Monday the 22nd Feb 2010
I got to the reservoir at about 3.40 and dropped in the same swim as last week, partly motivated by the reasonable layer of snow on the ground at that end having never managed a snow capture before. I got the first rod out by about 3.50 and was playing a fish at 4pm! It was one of those that I really did not want to lose and bless its cotton socks it behaved itself, 11lb of lovely orange common, the weight being totally irrelevant, I was over the bloody moon. That came on the middle rod from the same area as last weeks action over 30 odd boilies that i'd just stuck out. Naturally the other two rods were dropped either side of it with another 50 baits to top up the area.
It was up with the carp house and seeing as I expected to be setting up on the white stuff i'd treated myself to a groundsheet for the first time in living memory (except when the mrs tags along), it was to be a night of luxury, until that is I discovered i had no infil panel for the bivvy, the forecast was for minus 3 and I was sitting on the end of a nice 15mph northerly, oh how delightful!
Just before 8pm the right hander dropped to the floor without hesitation and in a bewildered state of disbelief I found myself playing possible snow carp number two and blow me if that one didn't find the net too, wahay! 20lb 2oz of lovely common and the first common over 20 i've ever had from the place, chuffed isn't the word.
While stashing my camera away I had a bit of luck, there was my infil panel where i'd stuffed it earlier in the week at the bottom of my rucksack, I'd sat there freezing cold for no reason whatsoever! At about ten pm the police helicopter arrived over Loughborough, I wonder what they think when they pick up a lone heat source on the infra red camera, sitting next to a lake in February when its 3 below zero?
Nothing else occurred overnight and I was up and packed away by 7.30am a happy man.
I got to the reservoir at about 3.40 and dropped in the same swim as last week, partly motivated by the reasonable layer of snow on the ground at that end having never managed a snow capture before. I got the first rod out by about 3.50 and was playing a fish at 4pm! It was one of those that I really did not want to lose and bless its cotton socks it behaved itself, 11lb of lovely orange common, the weight being totally irrelevant, I was over the bloody moon. That came on the middle rod from the same area as last weeks action over 30 odd boilies that i'd just stuck out. Naturally the other two rods were dropped either side of it with another 50 baits to top up the area.
It was up with the carp house and seeing as I expected to be setting up on the white stuff i'd treated myself to a groundsheet for the first time in living memory (except when the mrs tags along), it was to be a night of luxury, until that is I discovered i had no infil panel for the bivvy, the forecast was for minus 3 and I was sitting on the end of a nice 15mph northerly, oh how delightful!
Just before 8pm the right hander dropped to the floor without hesitation and in a bewildered state of disbelief I found myself playing possible snow carp number two and blow me if that one didn't find the net too, wahay! 20lb 2oz of lovely common and the first common over 20 i've ever had from the place, chuffed isn't the word.
While stashing my camera away I had a bit of luck, there was my infil panel where i'd stuffed it earlier in the week at the bottom of my rucksack, I'd sat there freezing cold for no reason whatsoever! At about ten pm the police helicopter arrived over Loughborough, I wonder what they think when they pick up a lone heat source on the infra red camera, sitting next to a lake in February when its 3 below zero?
Nothing else occurred overnight and I was up and packed away by 7.30am a happy man.
Glorious colour and in the snow as well! - magic.
ReplyDeleteWonderful winter colouring Rob.
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