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Only last week I headed out to one of my favourite winter venues intending to fish for just one night. I arrived late in the evening and found the car park empty so I loaded the barrow and headed off into the gloom down the long and winding path to the lake. It was a lovely mild and calm night but the sky was lit up with fireworks from the nearby houses. I left the barrow by the gate and went for a wander round. At the far end of the lake I heard a fish slosh out so I walked the kit round and stood listening. Within a few minutes I'd heard two more definite carp out in the darkness and I sat and watched the rings come back to tell me where they were showing, which was tight to the far margin beneath the overhanging trees, one of their favourite haunts at this time of year.
Before long I had set up in the nearest swim and put up my house as it had started to rain. I had maggots with me on this trip as well as some of the new Dynamite chocolate malt boilies that I'd tested on this very lake the previous winter and knew they loved. Before long I'd got three rods spread out along the treeline as close as I dared in the dark, and soon I started to get odd bleeps on the alarms, which was a good sign that there was fish about. Just as I was about to turn in one of the bobbins rose slowly to the rod and I was into my first fish of the trip - it was good to be back. The fish fought hard in the deep water but steady pressure from the sk3 won the day and I eased a good fish over the net after a ten minute tussle, which I really enjoyed on the soft actioned rod. Now I'm not a greedy angler and am happy with a fish or two, but this was to be one of those trips were you can't seem to do anything wrong and I wasn't going to get much sleep as I received bites regularly throughout the night. After every fish I recast the rod with a fresh trimmed- down choccy malt boilie and two-bait stringer and walked round to the far bank and introduced a handful or two of maggots to keep the fish grubbing about. By the morning I was exhausted, but happy, as I'd caught a dozen carp, with ten over twenty pounds in weight, a fantastic night's angling in anyone's book!
Right that's it from me, I'm off to sort my kit as I'm heading out to France in a few days time to fish two different lakes in the East of France. I'll be taking the camcorder along, so hopefully I'll have some nice footage for you to see in the video section upon my return. Wish me luck! Cheers for now, Nick.
