New Swim part 3

Well over the last few weeks Ive been lucky to find a new swim that seems to be paying off, I say lucky as I only found this swim after been plagued by jet skis one Sunday that pretty much drove me down to the other end of the lake, after a little exploring I discovered a clearing with room for me and all my gear.
So afew days latter and around 5 fish up to 24lb 12oz I discovered that I could wade out from the cove I was in if I stuck to the side, and fish part of the lake were Ive seen a lot of fish cruising in the afternoon sun just out from a large over hanging tree, with only 40 Min’s left on this last sessions I cast out and set my rod up in the fallen tree, It could not have been more then 20 Min’s and I herd the sound of my drag as the line was ripping off my reel, after a hard but short fight, A very welcome mid teen slipped into the net.
I unhooked this fish and with no more time to give this new swim I pre baited a large area with all the bait and method I had left and set on my way home with plans swimming around my head for my next visit back to my new found home.

After a good day thinking about just what was needed for my return, I came to the concussion that I had to cut my load down as I’m going to be doing a lot of wading in the water and this cant be done with my normal amount of luggage that I carry around with me.
After cutting out the clutter I got all the stuff needed into my rod bag, I knew I will also need a bait bucket for the method, so room in the top of there for any forgotten things.

With my gear loaded up into the van I set off before first light to pick John up who was going to be my partner in crime for this trip, 5 days Of planning, anticipation and overall pure torture I was ready and full of anticipation.
We got to the swim just after first light, its a hard swim to get at so I did not want to attempt this in the dark.
I was lucky to find a spot on the bank which I could lay my unhooking mat on, The problem was that there was no real room to sit and we would have to stand or lean against the fallen tree that was hanging in the water which was rather uncomfortable to say the least.
I set about baiting the rods up, I did put a lot of thought into how I was going to fish, two rods with flavored maize and my steam crimed maze method, and my other rod with a tiger nut and a small PVA bag with 4 tigers that I dried off so not to melt the bag, John had other plans, hes being doing very well on his grit pack, well I say pack, he fishes it around his lead, so I guess its a grit pack method, for a hook bait he was going to go with some scopex corn.
With all the traps now set it was just a case of sitting back and waiting, I was feeling confident, I thought we had a good lot of bait out and if any proved to be better then another we had the hook bait to switch and change as we needed.

Well as it turned out we started to see carp backs on the water, then more and more, before we knew it,the whole lake came alive with carp sunning themselves it the morning sun.

The problem with this was our baits were on the bottom and the carp showing no signs of heading down into the cooler depths, This was a problem that never crossed my mind in the planing stage of things or I may have tried a zig-rig which ive been learning to tie and use.

After about two hours the fish seem to start to drift down and hang in the water, It was becoming clear to me that it was very unlikely that they would be feeding anytime this morning, So I started making drawings of the lake and marking areas of interest for my next visit.

I was still writing 40 Min’s latter when my far right-hand rod too off, I stuck and was I was into a nice fish, I always try to hold off on trying to figure out what kind of size the fish is until after its 2nd run, But I was pretty sure I was into “Freewilly”.

After what seemed like an hour (which may have been 6 Min’s) the fish rose from the depths to show its self, The fish was not freewilly but a very scrappy low to mid teen.

With the fish in the net, it was over to the unhooking mat for a quick look and photo before slipping her back.

Ill be back soon for round 3 and this story will continue.