Work.....its a dirty word, still needs must... it had kept me away from the syndi for 3 weekends... The plan was to fish the fri night, alas this did nt go to plan and i ended up heading off early Saturday morning after a trip to tesco, at least the roads to the syndi were clear and the drive enjoyable as i thought of all thing carpy.. I arrived at the syndi at first light to find one car in the carpark , the water was lower than usual due to a leek on the overflow system that was ...
Arrived late afternoon for a session with blingy, weather was better than my previous session with a warmer wind and a few sunny spells. Got set up on my usual spots, 2 rods on running rigs and 1 on the multi/jonny mac rig. Baits were the usual triple s glugged hookers from slayer baits, tipped with white fake corn on the running rigs and a fruity pop up on the multi/jonny mac rig. ...
Since making the decision to fish here at the end of last year, I have tried to visit the lake once a week and see what’s happening. From this I have found a few spots I have chosen to fish but as my ticket doesn't start until 1st April, watching the lake has been all I can do up until the past week where I was given the code to the gate and told I can do whatever I want as long and I don't fish. I made use of this by checking out my chosen spots with a marker to confirm the depth ...
Deciding where to fish for the 2012 season was a hard decision for me. Previous to this, I have always visited day ticket waters which don't have the size fish I want to pursue so I had some choices ahead of me. I have 4 or 5 syndicates / memberships within reach which all have good lakes and stocks but they can get very busy at the times I can fish them and being busy places, have lots of pressure. I decided to choose a place which I have heard stories about, where big carp ...
Arrived on the Thursday around 1.30pm,the Paul who i was fishing with for the duration of the session had already been there for 4 hours and saved me the peg next to him as we were doing some filming for the first installment of carpfevertv. I got myself setup in the peg, rods out, 2 on the running rig, 1 on the multi rig, i have only used this rig twice due to mixed success on the chod rig last year, so will be giving this a good go over the coming year. My running ...