So I’ve been a little slack again lately with the updates and I have a couple so I’m going to keep them short and sweet. Recently I’ve been lucky to up my personal best this year to 27lb6oz and I always wanted it to be from one of the Park/Estate lakes that I regularly fish rather than going and playing a numbers game down one of the runs waters. Yes that is great sport and don’t get me wrong I also enjoy doing it from time to time but I get my kicks and satisfaction from hunting down these old original gnarly carp from these unfished usually untouched waters. It was a Sunday morning and half the lake was about to be stitched up with the regular old boys match leaving me only a few options to try and bag myself a bite. Keeping myself to myself I tucked away in a swim known as the point which gave me access to an island which usually would do a bite but 4 hours later I was still waiting.

To be honest I don’t even know why I gave it that long but I was regularly recasting and moving the position of the rig every hour to try and find where they may be located. This proved un-successful so I decided to upsticks and head to the opposite end of the lake and the deeper water. This would put me on the back of the wind and probably make me far warmer than the past 4 hours and must have some benefit to the carp also. Knowing where I wanted to drop the rig I had to do a side whip

sort of cast thing that even I don’t know what I did but it went out a rod lengths shorter than I anticipated but trying to keep it low key I opted to leave it for an hour. It took only 30 mins before it gave off what I thought was a Bream take but low and behold I leant into something that was far heavier than a Bream. 20 minutes later and a massive plodding around session under my rod tip I had my PB in the net. Just goes to show location is critical and on that day I got it initially wrong but was motivated enough to not just sit and wait for nothing to happen. On this day effort equalled reward and this was in the shape of a long lean fighting machine which was probably just as old as me and an estate lake original. Rumours have it there are bigger but I have yet to be proved otherwise but I will continue on the hunt for that one.