Trip 20th-27th May
Nice to have new customers and I was pleased to welcome Chris and Paul here, They won’t mind me saying but they have a few years between them and many of those fishing all round the world…..mainly for huge game fish!!!! So how to approach this trip as camping out was not an option!!!
Garden was our first place with Paul after a big cat and Chris’s goal a nice 20 plus carp. two cat rods and two carp in place with boilies and pellets fed the waiting game began. 15 minutes of waiting and one of Paul’s cat rods is away…Paul pulls into a very strong fish. He has had Marlin to over 700lb from a boat but this is different but after a 10 minute tussle he had a cracking 77lb cat to add to his portfolio.
A good start so the following morning we had a look up at the Fig Tree, Cat rods and carp rods cast out waiting game…. Well bit longer than yesterday but Chris was first in and although he wanted carp he was impressed by the strength of these cats as he got off the mark with a 55lb moggie. Rods back out we planned on fishing till 3pm then back for a bite to eat rest and another go down the garden. Well that was the plan until close to packing up a cat rod screams off and Paul is into a real beast. no snags to contend with and lots of river this cat was on a mission. No reversing the boat after this one but Paul hung on well and we were soon cradling my first “Ton” of the season 107lb.
Well a great start, with Paul catching his target fish now for a big carp for Chris. Afternoon spent relaxing with another go down the garden at 6. Same set up and soon Chris was into a carp no monster but a nice high double. Then Paul was into a cat, another good fish great scrap and a know fish as “Lumpy” was banked at 84lb.
Next couple days went pretty much the same with Paul landing more cats into the 70’s Chris joining him with smaller cats and carp all high doubles but all done at a nice steady pace, we had a day out on the boat but this proved fishless so with a couple of days left we needed a big carp.
What with Paul hauling in the cats Chris decided he would be on the cat rods, I nipped down the shops for half hour, on my return I was met with carnage!!!! Mud, weed and slime hard to make out the lads from the fish but half in the water half out with Chris hanging onto it was……..bloody “Lumpy” again!!! twice in a few days but he fights like bonkers so pleased to see him and Chris was off the mark with a big cat. Paul looking after the carp rods was soon into a decent fish. Slow strong plodding fight could he have picked up a good cat on the carp rods??? Well as it got nearer to the net we all see the huge tail of a carp come up! could swapping rods come back to bite Chris……well yes as Paul lifted up a stunning common weighing in at 36lb 4oz.
This trip was going very well with some cracking fish coming out, we gave the Fig Tree one last go with Paul and Chris both catching 70lb cats, we still had the garden to have one last go at catching a big 20lb carp for Chris. 6 pm arrived and we soon had the rods out, first fish was a nice high double mirror carp which don’t come out that often. Then a good fish lost to Chris’s rods……has he left it too late????? well the next run nearly pulled to rod off the rest and after a great fight Chris nervously pulled the fish into the waiting landing net. Quickly we had the fish in the sling but wouldn’t show Chris what the scales were showing!!!!! Yes he had done it with the scales showing a little over 25lb well done Chris.
Well what a trip, many cats and carp up to 50lb’s and 3×70’s 3×80’s the 107lb and the cracking carp at 36lb 4oz great company, just fishing mid day and a few hours in the evenings if only it was like this all the time!!!!!!
Thanks Guys hope you will pop back another time soon.
until next time Paul
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