Trip 12th-19th May.
Well its nice to have repeat custom but bloody hell I can’t get rid of two of these, Tony, James and Darren!!!! Only joking it doesn’t get much better than repeats and with Tony and James always a giggle…and a fish or two!!!!
Venue for this trip Riba Roja Dam, not easy to access the swim but always full of fish. So 3 lots of kit lowered down a 30 foot high concrete wall and 20 gallons of milk with 2000 tea bags!!!! Darren having never fished before was first up, we had 2 cat rods on pellets, 2 carp rods at distance and the 2 right hand rods in amongst the weed patches. First rod to go was a cat rod, not the best introduction to fish hanging on to a cat rod screaming at you but Darren done very well and was soon cradling a nice 55lb cat. The carp rods were seeing plenty of action with all 3 catching some nice carp to mid 20’s. Tea flowing well and a pattern was starting to show……every big fish was coming to Darren. 3 days in and he has had the only cat and carp too 28lb having never fished before!!!! James was keeping an eye and baiting a spot right under the dam as he had spotted some huge carp there but the swim was being spooked by other anglers arriving early morning fishing for Zander so that spot will have to wait for later in the year.
Weather was very hot by day but after the sun had dropped temps were nice and the river came alive and it was about this time when on Darren’s turn he was into a very nice carp. Didn’t really how big till it fancied another scrap under the rod tip but once in the net we knew it was a big fish…..not quite to magic” 40″ but at 38lb 12 oz a real cracker..
Well the Darren show was going well James was more like Tony and Darren’s carer but he to was catching some nice carp…..and demolishing the cakes and biscuits!!!!!
last evening and we saw some cats rolling so there is only one way to get them feeding and that is to let them have some bait….heavy feeding of pellets 4 rods set on the spot see what happens. Soon it was Tony into a good fish typical Ebro cat scrap, but the other rod was also away!! so we had a double header to deal with. Both fish were landed with James landing a nice 70 and Tony a 85. 
Morning came with a couple more carp, so we photographed Tony’s fish and time to haul all the kit up the 30 foot wall!!!
Great trip, something a little different, we had over 50 runs landing 30 odd fish with the dense weed beds claiming a few, but that’s wild fishing, beginners luck was on our side..
until next time Paul
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