Short and Sweet

Will be joining BDAC this season as a short session option, again mainly fishing Straits Mill. Had a walk round at the end of March, some of the sneaky secret spots are no longer present including the "Alex Swim" tree along with the "Compass Swim" over hang tree spot. With the lake being opened up and with many carp holding spots being removed fishing may become slower this year. But many of the overlooked fishing spots still exist and a bend in the rod should still be easy to come by....hopefully

The Fairytale Session !!

I had eight Carp in a nine hour session down Straits Mill which included: 13lb, 18.14lb, 14lb, 16.8lb, 9.13lb, 20.1lb (Fully Scaled Mirror), 11.4lb and 19.6lb !! I will no be joining BDAC next season so this was the final session for a year or two down Straits, so what away to bow out...

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