For those of you following our page on facebook you'll have seen snippets of recent news.
We recently welcomed Andy a regular guest back for a weekend away, and in his first session landed 7 carp out of 12 runs, heading home for Christmas with 16 Carp banked during his short break.
Other guests included new anglers, Pike specialists from Scotland who stayed with us for just one night but netted 8 fish by keeping highly mobile all over the park and fishing dead baits. - Pictures to follow shortly!
Meanwhile I'm home for Christmas and have been enjoying some great sport - plenty of cracking Roach from Lonsdale as always.
In fact feeling nostalgic (and damp from a torrential rain pour) I settled into my old haunt at the boat house with a rather dusty whip pole. Unfortunately I was smashed straight away on my size 18 hook and single red maggot and got to see only a big gold flank before my hook length gave.
This left me with a choice - walk back to my main tackle box at home in the rain, or get creative / lazy with what I had on my person. Fortunately for me I had my fly box in my coat pocket, so with some fly leader for a hooklenth and a gold header buzzer type fly tied in below (barbless of course!) I decided to see what would happen.
The result was plenty of lovely chublets taken on a bare fly fished below my pole float (just gently raising and jigging it) and also on the fly with a blasphemous maggot impaled on it.
As the chublets moved on the big roach moved in and my new chimera method filtered the smaller samples out to leave me with some lovely big silvers!
I've also been out searching for Perch with a barbless spinner - but instead am having tremendous fun catching some bigger chub on an ultra light lure rod - you have to try it!
To return home click: www.lonsdalepark.co.uk
