Morning everybody , sorry Iāve not had time to update this thread , had lots on .
I actually fished the weekend after my last post above , since when Iāve spent a couple of weeks in Egypt doing naff all except a bit of scuba dooba diving which I thoroughly enjoyed even if it played (and still is) playing havoc with my ears .
I was hoping to get a spot of fishing in but it would appear that since the last visit (pre-Black Death) the Egyptians now frown upon fishing and just about every species in the Red Sea is now a protected species. That donāt understand the concept of catch and release so that didnāt happen unfortunately.
Anyway I digress . Yes , weekend of 29th of July I hit my syndicate lake again , the challenge , if you recall , being to avoid constant tiddlers with huge 40mm+ hookbaits ā¦ you know the ones that kept cracking š.
Due to the hot weather the water levels were amazingly low . Itās not a deep lake anyway but certain parts , in particular a couple of the swims I had my eye on , were alarmingly shallow . Iām talking 18 inches deep shallow ā¦not the type of depth I could imagine a 20lb+ Carp to be lying up in.
Anyway with the whole lake to choose from I decided on the same swim as my previous visit a month before . They say familiarity breeds contempt , I say I breeds laziness lol.
I had a very good weekend . I broke the habit of a lifetime and actually weighed most of the 20 or so fish I banked ā¦just to compare with my previous session ā¦.lightest this time 12lb .
The stamp of fish as a whole being bigger this time around . All my hookbaits were 40mm+ B5 and Black snail . The boilies that were cracking stayed intact mostly and those that had split in half stayed on the hair beautifully to get the job done . As most of the fish I caught were obviously having difficulty getting them in their oversized gobs.
The most frustrating thing was having to sit on my hands when the transmitter was going into overdrive . They were moving the baits resulting in 3/4/5 second blasts and obviously then dropping them . Being patient and waiting for fully fledged runs was the name of the game .
This was the largest of the session , a tad over 18lb .