Carpnet . . . . .16 -Sept-01

.....Weekend fishing trip

Hi Lads,        

Went out fishing on Sunday morning, missed the turning & detoured a bit but only lost a few miles in the process. Got to the swim at about 7:00 AM. This area is currently rather favourite for the attentions of the NY oddysey derby, I could not get my favoured spot ! Oh well, decided to go to one of the other swims I had dumped a bucket load of chum in.

Cast out with boiled maize as sweetcorn is removed in minutes by fish, with not enough indication to strike at. Rigs were 3 oz safety bolt rigs, tied to #6 eagle claw LS hooks to 30 lb power pro, backed onto 50 lbs P-Pro mainline. Cast in tighten the lead to the tip , adjusted baitrunner tension to bend the tip. Sat back & relaxed (not for long ) inside 10 mins the first screamer nearly took my rod in ! Hit into the fish & it took off on a fairly long run. I let it go about 50 yds & then it decided to stop of it's own accord. I ran towards the fish to gain some line because the point I was fishing from, allows fish to cut back & damage the line if your not real careful. Also the bottom is rip rap strewn & drops to 20 ft after a short cast of about 30 ft from the bank. The point is used by cormorants & they have painted the rocks white with bird poop. Nothing much grows & if it rained you would not want to be there ! Got the fish in & it was about 12- 14 lbs, nice condition & it rocketed back below the ledge. I slackened the tension of my baitrunner, no runs happened for a while but I could see the attentions of carp on the tips of my rods. I had cast my second rod about 5 yds further out in 28 ft of water but most of the action was coming to the near rod in about 20 ft just at the bottom of the ledge. I was putting probably the equavalent of a can of corn in every 15-20 mins. I kept this constant. To the further out rod I catapulted bait out, The near rod I used a spod made from a petfood scoop & a fibreglass tube. This I could get out barely 40 ft into the 15 mph headwind.

The second fish came & was released but the rod tip was telling me there was a lot of fish down there. Then it was my mates turn & his rod screamed (baited with one of my cornmeal / millet boilies) the fish ran for about 30 seconds & then Dave my mate informed me that the fish was 150 yds out onto the backing of the new spool of line he had just wound on ; last night ! I looked at the spool fo his reel in disbelief but it was so. Shortly after noticing this the tip pinged straight & the fish was off ! Bad luck for Dave, he rebaited with another boily saying it must have been a Salmon but I doubt  if it was.   

Out of about 50 tip jerkers, 10 screaming runs we landed only 3 carp & two channel cats. It's a tough game this carp fishin' !!!!!!

Regards Carpsava Steve in Kitchener, On,  Canada
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