Round Two

Turned up a Straits late afternoon today, their must have been 10-12 cars in the car park! But bagged two doubles the swirly belly Common at 16.1lb & 12lber.

End of March Glory!!

Fished Straits Mill today and fished the compass swim. In the nine hour session I had six Commons 16.14lb, 10lb, 18.06lb, 13.5lb, 13.03lb & 16.8lb

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.

Straits mill summer evening

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Vintage 2011

From Straits Mill this year Neil and I had:

"76 Carp"
3 Twenties
65 Doubles
8 Singles

From Laundry Lake with only a hand full of short sessions:

"22 Carp"
3 Twenties
19 Doubles

Other Lakes:
2 Twenties
10 Doubles
?? (Can't remember) Singles