A fabulous evening and early night. The weather was dead calm, with clear skies and a stunning sunset, plus the clearest and brightest moon seen for a long time.
We also had the lake to ourselves, which was very odd, considering it was a Saturday with good weather.
All in all, one of those really memorable fishing trips.
We tried the halibut pellet approach, but kept getting 3-6lb carp, so switched to ledgered live baits in the form of small roach caught in the margins.
This changed things. We started getting little knocks, which we guessed were small eels. Mike is an eel hunter of the old guard (he's an old git, used to fish for giant eels big as your leg on dodo livers with a tank arial.... or somthing.....) ....anyway....on a hunch he thought there might be bigger eels in there, so changed to a dead bait really close in to he margins. This rod then spent ages getting beeps and knocks, and eventually 'eeked away slowly, giving a positive take. Mike struck, and was lucky enough to get into a good 2lb eel. He was very pleased with that. :-)
For my part, I got a very positive run on a live bait, which could only have been a catfish I reckon, but struck into nothing. On inspecting the bait however, I only had a small piece of roach head left. So how close did I come to hooking my first catfish ?
We'll never know...
We're going back soon though....
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