August Catch reports

[salokcinnodrog]

Grief, another month gone and we are into August already 

[kevtaylor]

One out the syndi Sunday morning 1st fish in 4 weekends, came after a change of presentation 👍

[yonny]

Size of its head @kevtaylor..... that'll be a  big'n at some point. Fantastic proportions too. Lovely carp.

[kevtaylor]

8 hours ago, yonny said:

Size of its head @kevtaylor..... that'll be a  big'n at some point. Fantastic proportions too. Lovely carp.

Thanks mate, yeah it has got a big head - should have done self takes with the camera but a mate was there. 🤷‍♂️

Could be Dinton, VS or home grown

[jh92]

22lb 15oz from the canal👌

Its been a good crack these last couple weeks, cutting out swims, raking spots, prebaiting from paddle boards 🤣

Here's 3 of the Carp from last months hit

This is my best one at 24lb

 

really please with these ones as well tho 👌

 

got the bug for it big time at the moment, I did a quick over nighter last night but unfortunately no carp, only tench and bream 🤣

[kevtaylor]

7 minutes ago, jh92 said:

22lb 15oz from the canal👌

Its been a good crack these last couple weeks, cutting out swims, raking spots, prebaiting from paddle boards 🤣

Here's 3 of the Carp from last months hit

This is my best one at 24lb

 

really please with these ones as well tho 👌

 

got the bug for it big time at the moment, I did a quick over nighter last night but unfortunately no carp, only tench and bream 🤣

Mega fish - well done 😎  Great to not see otter damage for a change 👌

[elmoputney]

Finally got out and caught one this weekend. Got to the lake Saturday lunchtime to find only one other on. Had a look around in the island half of the lake and as usual found a few mooching about. It was really weedy everywhere so I continued walking, looking at the bigger end of the lake I just thought it looked good, whilst it was still very weedy.

I got the plumbing rod out to look for a spot I used to know. It still existed a bit but was a lot smaller. Did quite a lot of leading about and didn't find a lot else so raked a spot close in for a 3rd rod, one mountain of weed later it was done, flicked in a load of pellets to let the Rudd go to work, I stuck a rig on it straight away but a couple of hours and it had stunk out my pineapple pop up. Continued baiting it and left it for the morning.

2 rods went out to the bank of pads and weed onto a plateau baited with a good few spombs of boilie and pellet mix and just chucked the 3rd onto another clear spot I had found in the other side margin.

 

Nothing much happened until I was asleep and about 2am I had a series of beeps and line was being taken so I hit it and instantly it was weeded up, it came in like a big ball of weed for a while when it got free of that went nuts and found another weedbed, this continued for a while and I just kept trying to gain line, until it got to the weed In front of the swim I tried and failed to get it round the side and it locked me up solid. In the end my only hope was putting the rod down. Luckily after a vape I picked it up and it came free I ended up landing it and a free ball of weed. 

Couldn't find my tripod, or water bucket, and my intervalometer batteries were dead so had to find some more of those. Luckily I could use a picnic bench that was in the swim as a tripod. Not the greatest photo but at 3am it was the best I could manage. 

31lb 3oz of hard earnt carp. I also lost one to my line parting (happened straight away off a drop back) , caught a massive rudd on a size 4 pop up I had a couple of what I thought were liners because my raked spot was fizzing, sadly no takes because of the Rudd, and I also had a pretty big tench with weed ball also on a pop up.bith slipped back because I needed a nap, The trig hammer XT got a big test and passed with flying colours. 

I had a little nap and came home a happy but tired and achey man. 

These were the biscuit of the week in my world, they came alive when you dunked them. And pink what's not to love.