September catch reports

[ouchthathurt]

Did a quick overnighter on the park lake last night as my current seasons tally stands at: 

nights fished: 1 

days fished: 2 

carp: 0 

I’m still sat under the oval winding down the last few hours of the session. September being my favourite month for carping, l felt o needed to get on the score board for this season. 

This one went 23lb 

[ouchthathurt]

34lb 10oz mirror 

[ouchthathurt]

22lb mirror, bring it on September! 

[yonny]

Great session @ouchthathurt!

[commonly]

Sacked off an overnighter with my youngest, we didn't fancy packing up in the rain.

Went to a little farm lake instead for a few little ones.

He caught his new pb log.

[elmoputney]

Well done ouch that's a banger. 

Nice log commonly. 

[commonly]

Its twice the size of my pb😄

[ouchthathurt]

My son has been trying to catch a carp from the park lake for 11 months. (Doesn’t help it’s a tricky water, he’s only been able to do weekend days, taking whatever swim is left and to top it off, I had the 3 out the other night while he blanked)
 

Today he finally had the bite he’s been dreaming of all this time that photo says it all I think… 

18lb 8oz (whilst wearing my lucky fox hoodie…) 

caught on a home made premier superaminos boilie with shellfish sense appeals and belachan. Freebies were 12millers that I rolled. My little girl rolled some 25-30mil baits from the scrap ends, he caught it on one of those! 
 

buzzing, when it hit the net, we both screamed for joy! That’s what this game is all about, that buzz 

[Golden Paws]

 A 29lb 5oz mirror on Friday evening. I had 3 rods about a rod length from an island but saw 3 shows really close and so lengthened the cast to a really shallow spot. Did a 54 hour stint and that was it and didn't hear of any other fish coming out. Strange as Saturday conditions were perfect as the temperature rose a bit and a pretty strong Southerly wind picked up and chopped up the water. 

[jh92]

Had this one at 29lb 8oz on Tuesday. The session was off to a bad start as I left my buzz bars and alarms at home so just fished them off my cradle 🤣  not the end of the world though as i was only fishing for a couple hours. Anyway it nearly pulled the rod off the cradle lol. I caught it from the 4 acre lake on the complex and I believe its same fish as the first carp I had out of there in jan/Feb at 28lb 14oz 👍 here's the one from the beginning of the year

Off to the canal in a bit, fishing through to Sunday, will report back if we get any carp on the bank 👍

[Roughtor]

I've been fishing and re finding intimate waters I visited from 35 yrs ago ,one of which I looked around ,but never fished ,it's all overgrown ,and farmer is 90 yrs plus..

 

Had around 12 fish to 8lb ,no monsters at all ,but the Oaktrees are centuries old ,ps,thats my 50 inch Mhr dwarf ed by just one of these amazing trees

Edited 22 hours ago by Roughtor

[kevtaylor]

Got lucky on my Bluebell trip, arrived Sunday morning as swims became free from the weekend - lots of swims available on Swan but onto my favourite Kingfisher for a lap.  Fairly busy but suprisingly the 1st and 2nd points had become free and had the wind smashing in for the duration of my trip.  Within minutes I'd seen several shows in each so I bucketed the 2nd point and went to pay and get my kit.

With my kit in the 2nd point I noticed more activity in the 1st point so quickly moved and got set up.

I gave it a couple of hours watching to identify the main areas they were showing in then checked with a light lead - all presentable with just tiny bits of black silk weed coming back on the swivel.

I decided to go in with pva mesh bags with mixed pellets and crumb and 10ml pellet wafter hookbaits.  Conditions at this point were banging 50 mph gusting winds, low pressure and rain.  Sunday evening as the rain became biblical the right rod signaled a take, I frantically fumbled around for my coat and got out there.  Waders on out in the pond playing a fish in the monsoon - head torch shining through the spray it was mega and I netted a lovely 26lb common.

10am Monday the activity restarts and a guy round the corner leaves who was taking the mick in my water so I get the left rod repositioned where I actually wanted it.

Late morning and early afternoon I had 2 doubles from the 2 rods straight out so 3 in the bag and I'm praying for a big un.  Then at about 4pm i hook what feels a better fish and it kites right this time then I feel grating as it finds weed.  No drama it's still coming and I get ot free, but after 2 heavy head lunges it slips off - gutted.

Early evening after seeing a bigger fish roll on the left side - the left rod is away, this time it's in weed straight away but I manged to keep it coming bit by bit weedbed after weedbed and then after a great tussle close in I slip the net under a long common.

It wasnt until I plonked it down on the mat that I realised how wide this fish was and that I had made a mistake not going for the bigger scales.  The Ruben Flyweights bottomed out at 43lb so unfortunately I'll never know how big it was exactly but who cares when they are knarly as anything - best fish I ve caught for a long time - absolutely buzzing.

The rest of the trip got slower and slower by the day but who could be disappinted, I'd made the most of my weather opportunity - right time right place and no bait boat, spodding and distance sticks 😎👌

[elmoputney]

10 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

Got lucky on my Bluebell trip, arrived Sunday morning as swims became free from the weekend - lots of swims available on Swan but onto my favourite Kingfisher for a lap.  Fairly busy but suprisingly the 1st and 2nd points had become free and had the wind smashing in for the duration of my trip.  Within minutes I'd seen several shows in each so I bucketed the 2nd point and went to pay and get my kit.

With my kit in the 2nd point I noticed more activity in the 1st point so quickly moved and got set up.

I gave it a couple of hours watching to identify the main areas they were showing in then checked with a light lead - all presentable with just tiny bits of black silk weed coming back on the swivel.

I decided to go in with pva mesh bags with mixed pellets and crumb and 10ml pellet wafter hookbaits.  Conditions at this point were banging 50 mph gusting winds, low pressure and rain.  Sunday evening as the rain became biblical the right rod signaled a take, I frantically fumbled around for my coat and got out there.  Waders on out in the pond playing a fish in the monsoon - head torch shining through the spray it was mega and I netted a lovely 26lb common.

10am Monday the activity restarts and a guy round the corner leaves who was taking the mick in my water so I get the left rod repositioned where I actually wanted it.

Late morning and early afternoon I had 2 doubles from the 2 rods straight out so 3 in the bag and I'm praying for a big un.  Then at about 4pm i hook what feels a better fish and it kites right this time then I feel grating as it finds weed.  No drama it's still coming and I get ot free, but after 2 heavy head lunges it slips off - gutted.

Early evening after seeing a bigger fish roll on the left side - the left rod is away, this time it's in weed straight away but I manged to keep it coming bit by bit weedbed after weedbed and then after a great tussle close in I slip the net under a long common.

It wasnt until I plonked it down on the mat that I realised how wide this fish was and that I had made a mistake not going for the bigger scales.  The Ruben Flyweights bottomed out at 43lb so unfortunately I'll never know how big it was exactly but who cares when they are knarly as anything - best fish I ve caught for a long time - absolutely buzzing.

The rest of the trip got slower and slower by the day but who could be disappinted, I'd made the most of my weather opportunity - right time right place and no bait boat, spodding and distance sticks 😎👌

That is a mega fish Kev. 

World class 😍

[Golden Paws]

Mega fish and nice write up. I've always thought that fishing is a bit of a game of chance but when all the stars align and you have the skills and knowledge to capitalise on them, those long gruelling blanks start to feel like a distant memory.