Its one of the best places i have ever been and its just up my street in angling performance and tactics. Its a proper 5m paste line venue for me.
My main lines for attacking this venue are:
5/6m Paste line (NO feed): Rig wise i tend to use a direct line from tip to hook of around the 9lb area, tied to a 10 Middy or Animal with the choice of float being the PB22 usual for my paste fishing. I'd then top this off with 13 or 15h elastic softly set on a puller and expect to be fishing this line at the very end ledge, being around 5-6ft deep. I'd be looking at just feeding the paste which is on the hook and no loose feed as such would be introduced to the swim.
Margin Paste line: As usual i'd be 'filling' this in all day. I'd say i'd introduce about 2 kilos of pellets before got round to fishing it. Rig wise i tend to use a direct line from tip to hook of around the 10lb area, tied to a 10 Middy or Animal with the choice of float being the PB22 usual for my paste fishing. I'd then top this off with 15 or 17h elastic. I'd be looking to fish ON the first ledge in around 2 ft of water. I'd also look to be going up the elastic ladder to 16 solid or 19h due to the size of fish normally increasing as the day goes on.
As you've guessed, the matches are dominated heavily with carp. There is however a nice stock of silvers in the road side pond which can be a pest if they get on the paste!.....
There is some good lumps in the lakes, so you really do need to be careful. If you've drawn/fish next to a tree, you should be ready to rag the carp out as soon as its contacted....
Put it in....
P We're in to one!
You need to keep pulling on it. Dont worry about your pole or your end tackle, if your using a balanced set up it shouldn't bother it one bit - but if you don't pull 'em out - YOU WILL lose the fish.
It doesn't take long to get 'em out of the snags as long as your hard with them, then your free to play the fish on your top two.
Nearly there! Once the head pops up don't let it go down again!
..and its in the bag!
I use a Z9 for all my fishing including the margins, if your a bit unnerved by that, Browning have a very good and cost effective range of margin poles for all prices brackets and angling abilities.
If you like here's pretty much a story of pictures for you to feast your eyes on - Courtesy of Katie Hughes Photography...
Nathan @ Fish4Thought
