November/December; Its has been busy time of year as late what with my birthday and moving house its has taken its toll on my fishing. However I did manage to sneak off to linear for a few nights in November in hope of catching my target fish ‘The Big Plated’.
As I pulled into the car park of the famous linear fishery I couldn’t believe my eyes to find only ONE other car parked in there, this is a very rare sight down linear so as you can imagine I was very excited about having nearly all the lake to myself.
As I walked round the lake I spotted Kev Hewitt fishing the point so I popped over to see if I could cadge a brew off him. as we chatted bout what he had caught a few fish showed off the social bank, that will do for me barrow loaded off I went. With all the gear set up rods baited with my favourite solid bag presentation I cast out and fired up the stove. There were still a few fish showing in the area so i decided to give them a bit of bait, 10 spombs of maggots and crushed Kream Krunch boilies were fired out to the spot. It was around 7:30pm I had a fast take on my middle rod the fish felt like a good one so I played it very gingerly ( excuse the punt). After a short battle I had the fish safely in the folds of the net, on the scales she went 25.02 and was a stunning old looking mirror happy days. It was my first cast out to using a new a bait as well, (I would like to take this opportunity to thank the guys at Innovate for giving me a chance to be a part of the ever growing team) so I was more than happy with the result. Unfortunately that was the only bit action I had for the rest of the year, so once again the big girl has not graced my landing net but there is always next year…….. To be continued.

Please check out my video blog for all the highs and lows from the session.