Carp

Chased big carp again in our local pond.
Heavy gear, standard running ledgers, bigger boilies. Fresh freezer baits too. Cell, Grange, and Black Snail.
However, we didn't hit anything like our target, we didn't even get a double.
I ended up having x5 carp, x2 under tree on Cell. x2 off island on Grange, and x1 stalking on bread, all about 5lb to 8lb.
Oddly, Mike blanked, yet he was sat next to me on similar baits and rigs.
We were both very tired and didn't even think of taking any pics, as it was a pleasure fish after a hard couple weeks in work.

On a nice note, when I was stalking, I had a little wildlife safari going on right by me. I had a couple of baby robins sat on branches just 18 inches from my ear, watching me, and flitting about seeing what I was doing. I had a frog in the water by my feet, gently swimming about, and a kingfisher giving me a lovely little display of his fishing technique just ahead. :-)

Stalking

A quick few hours stalking for carp the other evening gave us a surprise.
Mike had a lovely female tench we haven't seen before right off the surface on bread.
Never had one in this way before.

(sorry about the image contrast. Id messed up the settings on my cam and not noticed.)

Bait Boat

Mike and I went to our pond the other day, and took Karls new (second hand) bait boat with us.
We tested it out for Karl as he was really busy and wanted to know how it performed.
It did well, with only a couple minor things that Karl intends to sort out, like balance and steering needing a little tweaking, but that wasn't the pinnacle of the test.
The real point that made the day, was getting it stuck under the branches of a tree on an island, and mike 'getting back to nature' to go swim and rescue it. :-)

Of course, as a good and supportive mate, I filmed it .....



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