At the moment I'm still Carp obsessed, and I've been doing quite well on my local water that has been my focus of late. I'm guessing that around 70 fish, give or take have come to my net during the short day sessions that I fish. Regular application of bait has ensured the runs keep coming with only a short interruption of the action when the temperatures took a sharp drop a couple of weeks ago. Obviously it took the Cap a few days to adjust but now they have, one or two of the better fish have graced me with their presence..
This Ghost Koi is one that I had in mind as a target as I had never caught it before but I had seen it on the bank a couple of times to my mate. The fish weighed 22lb 3oz and is quite a character.
Obviously it's decided it likes the bait !
Last weekend, I concentrated on an area between two islands, that supports a large stand of Lilly pads. The pads themselves are now starting to deteriorate as we move into Autumn and as such are no danger to fish to now from a fish safety point of view, and they easily dislodge if anything so much as touches them. The spot produced six runs over three short day sessions with all six fish landed safely. The best fish was a surprise 20lb plus Common at 22lb 14oz, a surprise because up to now apart from the Ghost Koi, all the bigger fish have been Mirrors, and I'm not sure how many twenty pound Commons may be in the water. I have witnessed one other twenty plus Common a few weeks ago to another angler and this one I had is definitely not the same fish being much longer and darker in colour than the other one I saw, so there are at least two that I now know of.
A nice long lean specimen of a Common at 22lb 14oz
Lastly one other twenty pound plus fish was this Mirror of just over 20lb a couple of weeks ago.
So that's it for the catch up for now, hopefully there will be a few more decent fish to report before winter sets in.
