Popped down to Straits on Saturday afternoon for a few hours, there were a few fishing there but plenty of space. I set up in the ‘BMW man’ swim on the right of the little island and put one rod out for carp and another for pike. Had a take on the pike rod when reeling in but it dropped it before I had a chance to strike.
After a couple of hours I moved to the corner swim and fished the overhanging bushes. The guy fishing on the compass swim had 4 carp while I was there – on his first session! One of them was an 18lb, a mirror I’d never seen before, dark and scaly in perfect condition and one of the best carp I’ve ever seen.
I had a small jack and a liner on the carp rod and left around 5pm.
It was good to see the new fishery officer for the lake and have a chat, there is a lot of well thought out ideas and I think the lake will fare better now.