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Well I'm loosing my virginity tonight!! All loaded up, going to have dinner with the kids then off to the resi! I don't mind admitting I'm quite excited to finally get on the bank 😁😁😁

I'm setting myself up with a lightweight roving, and mixed species day kit. Given that my plans to fish Bluebell properly this year have been ruined by a massive influx of campers I've had a rethink and buzzing for it, first off was a local canal Perch next up a river Soar Barbel.

Viewfrom the bivvy door!! Had a few liners.

Well I headed to the shallows which had been the weediest part of the lake , ( before a lot of the weed was removed ) , after having a bit of a stroll around the rest of the lake - and I caught ! . So thank you very much Framey , and Yonny . Now which one of you gentlemen would like to push my barrow round to my swim for me ? . 😁

Go get them , Commonly . 😃

Good luck mate and enjoy that's what it's all about. 😁👍🎣

Good luck hope you get off to a winning start 👍🍀🤞

Best of luck mate .... tight lines & all that 😁

Stay away at night lol

Use the hot spicy one,I had a 27lb common and a variety of carp tench bream from 3lb upwards

Mate....... what is going on over there is a joke. As you know I pop over once or twice a year but not this year, it looks awful man!

Well done @crusian👍

Plenty more walking and looking. It can be worth just sitting watching a spot for a while rather than just walking and looking. The sunken trees are a good starting point, as will be weedy areas. As for bait, sweetcorn, particles, with maybe a few boilies thrown in. As an aside, I had a look at the City of London Hampstead Heath fishing page, that is good value for money!

A circus at the minute 🤣

It's not for me at the moment sadly, I don't do long sessions, so queuing up for a decent swim in a few days time is not the one. I generally do OK on there because I'm happy to fish 4 of the 5 lakes and can usually get on fish on at least one of them, but when all 300 pegs are taken you're fitting in not choosing. It's pretty un-heard of tbh so I intend to return when the holiday campers have got bored and hung their rods up for another year.

I watched Paul heseltines vid on there this week he said he had to do 2 nights just to get a swim he wanted to fish , sounds terrible 😢

Yeah, sound bloke is bungle, met him on white swan. He catches them.

I’m my own worst enemy I know where the fish are going to be, even tell the mrs exactly where to cast. but I never listen to myself

Mate of mine, ‘Bungle’, top bloke and angler with ‘Bling’ from Black Swan from a few weeks back at 38+😎

Not bad is it 😁

I did see this. Cracking fish isn't it. Another one in there like that which is even bigger..

Oh i didnt know that haha but many guys from the lake came and also weighted it. i also read that the lake that im on is in the rank of the best bream in the country and i am very suprised didnt know bream can get that big only catched really small ones in germany

What I’d give to be a bike ride away from Dinton!

So after losing that fish at the net and fishing every weekend of that season to that point I kind of felt deflated. Daft really as I'd have taken anything as a bonus after the very slow summer early autumn. So with Christmas approaching I decided to have a break for the rest of December. As usual though I kept the bait going in no matter what. I recall no more captures to anyone for the rest of December though the weekend of the 12th and 13th of January 2 of my mates both caught. I went down to help with the photos. One mate was fishing the opposite end of the lake to where I had been fishing. So I got to his swim and the sack came out the water. Undo the zip and there was a nice 32lb mirror but what made it even better for me was that the bottom of his sack was full of my red milk protein bait. Pictures done and off down the end where I'd been fishing/baiting. My other mate was fishing about 150yds up the bank from my main baited swim. He gets his fish out and once again his sack was full of my bait. Seen enough so the next weekend I obviously started fishing again and had my good session. After that good session the next weekend just turned into a bit of beer up if im honest. The previous weekend had been amazing for a few of us so a bit of trotting and socialising was done. Nothing was caught this particular weekend mind, though we did try, kind of haha. Now the following weekend and it was my usual arrival on a Friday about 3/ 3-30. Rods out, sit back and chill. It was a big full moon that weekend as it was shining down lighting up the lake one of my had a slow take on it. I instantly thought chunk, but it turned out to be a 27lb common, my smallest fish that winter. The rest of the weekend past without anything doing but a fish was a result. I didn't fish the following weekend as I was out celebrating my birthday which was on the Wednesday coming up and I'd booked it off along with the Thursday and friday. So with my baiting up all through the season, I was baiting on a Wednesday and a Friday. So this was to be the first time I'd fish a Wednesday. I got down and one other angler on and he was fishing about 100yds round the bank from me. Sadly by this time the half dozen of us who had fished all winter had been dropped in it so to speak by someone letting on what we had been catching that winter. Still to this day I'm not sure who let it slip, but up until that point no one else had fished that winter. Still I was plotted in my swim and bang on the spots. Sadly no birthday fish for me and nothing seen by myself or the other angler. That changed around first light of the Thursday morning. About 200yds up the lake a right kipper stuck its head out, that was all I needed to see. I just sat on my bed thinking he's coming down for his breakfast. 7-00 and a couple of liners on my middle rod had me set and ready for a bite any moment. 7-10, no bite but still liners. 7- 20 and left rod starts having liners, my god they are on me big time. The next thing I know my right hand rod is melting, the last rod I thought would go due to the liners. A proper battle ensued, the fish finding every rotten weed bed it could but fortunately it was dead and steady pressure had it out of one and into another. I get the fish about 20 yes out and it rolls, a proper lump. I instantly recognized the shape of the fish and the top lobe of its tail not being rounded, it could only be "paw print", the same fish I'd lost in December. This time though I had the happy ending. My suspicions from that loss in December were right though, it did look big and at 44lb 06oz it was at its biggest weight having never been 40lb before. So my birthday present was only a few hours late. The rest of the session saw no more action. After the fish all my liners stopped and everything, nevermind, there was always the next session.

My son's had some good fish using it, he frequently takes some with him. I also frequently take some but ALWAYS eat it myself. It's too nice for fish. Ian