So continuing on with my Peg 101 Peice. I'm at langold lake today. Peg 78 to be precise. Its a fairly "Bland" Peg to look at but it has hidden depths:). It was good weather for Langold lake, Basically a storm, Nice and choppy with over cast weather.
My plan as always for Langold lake was to fish for everything that swims. Expecting Bream, Roach, Perch & Possibly some good tench.
My swim choice was dictated 50% by the weather. It was blowing in to the corner of the lake oppisite the cabin. So i was going to position my self there which is why i picked peg 78. I opted for an 11m and 6m line. With good plumbing you are able 2 fish on 2 ledges at the same time. The frontal ledge and the ledge coming from the corner so it drops from 4/5ft to 7ft and this is were to fish! I chose to start the session with a .8gr Map LAKE float as it was very windy this was put onto 3.1lb straight through with a 16 B510 Barbed.
My other line was just below the very first ledge on the wall. Dropping from 3ft to 4/5ft i this is a get out of jail card and you mostly get small stuff on here from tiny skimmers to perch, this is the swim you want to be on just to keep things going into the keep net on the hard match days. This was to be fish with 2.5lb Straight through to a 18 B510 Barbed with a colmic gold float @ .30gr.
I started off as i always do. Filling it in with 4 balls of my ground bait mix. The mix can be found here - http://nate-fish4thought.blogspot.com/2011/08/previous-wednesday-langold-lake.html
As always you need to be as precise as you can with the balls, you can use a pole cup but i just use my hands for simplicity and it spreads it around as soon as it hits the surface. As usual i planned to fish this swim with a mixture of Worm/caster and a get out of jail card of dead reds.
So i started on my 11m line onto the bottom of both the ledges as previously said. It wasnt long before i was into the first fish of the day. A small 1/2 skimmer. Good start and this can often be a good sign. They came rolling in for an hour or so but nothing particularly special but good sport anyway. At about 11 o clock the wind eased off so i decided to opt for a rig made up of PB22 .5gr to 3.5lb/2.5lb hook link tied to a 16 B510 barbed. By the time 2 o clock came i had done 36lb of bream and bits. But asusual for the lake it went dead.
I decided it was time for the 6m line and dead red. Which i had been putting golf ball sized balls of ground bait in for around 4 hours @ a ratio of ever half hour. As soon as i put it in i was straight into the smaller skimmers 1 - 6oz. I was getting one a chuck but with feeding the amount you do, your swim tends to get full and soon enough the pike were there to bother me. I did get 2 on but never ended up coming out just a bit of a fish! It was almost a sprint to get the smaller stuff in as a jack pike had taken residents just below me. Which is when i decided to start packing up:).
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All in all it was a very good day ending on 42lb of Bream, Skimmers, roach and the odd perch. As i said previously its a nice day which takes you back to earth from the 200lb commie bags and gets you to appreciate it a little more. There are a few more people on the lake now a days which is a good sign. Hopefully the feeder pegs will be fishable some time soon:).
Nathan
@ Fish4Thought
