First trip out with Malcolm yesterday. It has finally warmed over the weekend but fish are taking a time to respond. Followed dubious tip to fish square but all we could get was small perch and one resonable roach bream hybrid. Apparently things picked up on Queensberry Salix after teatime. Saw another fox when we came to suss things out on Sunday.
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| Malcolm's First Carp |
Today out with Alex and eventually Vicki as well as Malcolm. Fish spawning and Alex keen to fish West end although my judgement is that North and South East banks tend to be better. I was on the pole in the NW corner. Alex got a couple of carp ledgering near weed and Malcolm missed bites before eventually getting a chub. Corner was tricky because of lack of space to strike but fish came on nicely. Eventually Malcolm got a reasonable common on my pole and Vicki got a couple of carp on float fished maggot. Encouraged Malcolm to try this but all he got was a chub, a small skimmer and a gudgeon.
Meanwhile I was alternating between chub and carp mostly to sweetcorn and missed bites and eventually got a nice 5lb common around 9.00 pm that went round and round as if on a grand prix circuit before swimming straight into the net. My total was seven carp and five chub but I wasn't getting unduly excited until that last fish as overall carp size was just 2 - 3 lb. One chub about 13/4lb as against overall 1lb stamp.
Plenty of fish were coming out of SE corner which is main spawning area but unfortunately occupied by noisy locals when we got there. We're pretty convinced that the fish in Brooms get moved around and sold on, which might account for overall low size. Perhaps time for a new fishing challenge?
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