Carp Couture Consultant David Abbott Just returned from a real spur of the moment trip across to France , I was on a 4 night session down at the Linch Hill complex and managed a couple a small common and a repeat of the lumpy common but things was very slow on the 3rd night my pal rings me and asks if I fancyed going to France the next morning , one thing lead to another and he picked me up from Linch Hill car park at 9am and we headed across (madness really thinking about it but i was off work so what the hell) . We fished a less busy French owned lake thats kept quiet when we arrived it was dark but after a quick mooch and look around it was apparent the morning after the lake would be much less preasured with anglers moving off , the rods was flung out in a corner and we hit the sack, the night passed with no fish landed by me but my pal lost one close in, the belgian lads afew swims up was moving out that morning ; they had been down for the week and had blanked but I was happy to move in and I was sure when they left and the 8 rods was reduced to 2 or 3 and the double figure number of H blocks was removed and was fished without perminant markers that the fish would move back into the area, using boats and H blocks can kill things off and just looking down into that zone I knew thats what had happened ; I was right 3 nights I fished in there and landed 7 or 8 fish , some being crackers as you can see .. the biggest two was 45lb and 46lb .. Not bad for 3 nights fishing on a very spare of the moment thing that was not prepared in the slightest. I was happy with that it was a great trip and enjoyed fully .. I fished the swim with all rods placed in the middles in a area of silt that i knew the carp would visit with a different line angle i was really fishing infront of another free swim, I find this can often make the difference with the different line lay and confuse the fish as to whats going on , with the lead just sticking slighty in the silt and bringing small amounts back i was happy with the spots and knew fish would visit them it wasnt long before i started noticing fizzing and signs of fish which was just hours after the lads had left ... i was very confident seeing this , i fished chods using Atomic Chod hooks and atomic chod wire to nail the fish on two rods and hinged stiff rigs using the same but with a 25lb jel e wire boom section on the other , i caught on all these presentations with the leadcore also being from atomic .. Bait wise I didnt use much I placed a spread of mad baits force boilies i used about 2 kilo in the 3 nights on the areas and i fished various mad bait pop ups - wicked whites and the pink citrus pop ups proved most sucessful .., my fishing pal also used the mad baits force and him and his son also had a great session but he was catching on mad baits bottom baits tipped with plastic corn . I have just this second got back so i am off home to open a bottle of french wine , thanks for reading and tight lines .. Dave Abbott Www.carpcouture.co.uk
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:49:50 +0000
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