Ryton was still
producing some very good fish but all has suddenly gone quiet, too much feed me thinks, less is more!! just wish I could get on
there as often as I'd like to, roll on the spring. The last session was a break
from the pool, I've been thinking about a stretch of canal I was told held a
good head of Carp, Barry had a few out earlier this year and they were good
looking fish but it's the tales about one of this stretches larger inhabitants
that has me interested. This session was also a chance to try my Ryton 3.4
boilie mix on another water just to check that these baits really do work.
I overshot the first
lob to a margin reed line but was bang on the second chuck, I was just hoping
that the first attempt hadn't ruined the spot. The baits had been in the water
for less than an hour when I got a strange take, the bobbin rose quickly and
stopped then nothing happened, it was exactly the same as some of the Bream and
Tench bites at Ryton. After a couple of minutes, off it went, a Carp, exactly
what I was after to confirm that my bait works on other waters, it wasn't a big
fish but at least I wasn't going to blank.
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| Canal Common. |
After seeing the
damage to its top lip I think these fish may have been caught several times
before, maybe this stretch of water has been more heavily fished for Carp than
I thought?
Another cast onto the
same spot resulted in another fast take that pulled the bobbin up tight but
whatever picked up the bait spooked off without feeling the point of the hook,
I think these fish might be a bit 'cute' to being fished for with boilies. After this
take I didn't get any more enquiries and as evening approached I was hovering
around my rods expecting a take any second as everything was looking perfect
for a bite but nothing developed and left having caught just the one common.
Barry bagged up which resulted in the duck changing hands, quack quack!
