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Sunday
October 1st
Due
to work again, the sessions I planned to do in August
never materialised, and a huge workload in September
made any thoughts of fishing impossible.
To my shock I realise that it is now
October! Where has the summer
gone?
This
time I’ve managed to visit the lake a couple of
times before the session to bait up and check out the
carps’ movements and
behaviour. The swims between
the Social and Beach are being very heavily fished
and I’m not confident of getting in there for
the coming session. Bryan
Jarrett is down with me for a guest session, and
although he has caught fish here before on a day
ticket, he hasn’t been here for 2-3 years, so I
need to give him some pointers as to
location.
During my
pre-session visits, I noticed that the swims in the
bottom half of the car park bay were virtually
unfished, yet each time I was down there were
numerous carp rolling and bubbling.
On my first visit I baited up a couple of swims quite
heavily with my usual Nutz groundbait and particle
mix, and was excited to find that the next day when I
came back for a look, there were carp in the swim
ripping up the bottom to get at the bait, just like
my June and July
sessions. So when I
arrived to fish, I had the choice of checking out the
Social or Beach swims, or heading for the prebaited
spots.
Pushing
the Carpporter round to the Beach, I was hoping to
get there well before Cooperman packed
up. Like most of the
anglers at Dinton, Coops will bait up before leaving,
so if I could get there early enough I could persuade
him (with a heavy bankstick if necessary) not to
heave in his usual bombardment.
Unfortunately, as I get there he is just winding in
the rods and everything else is on the
barrow. Cooperman apologises and
confirms he has baited up heavily, so, it’s
back round to the car park swims where I’d seen
fish a few days
previously.
When
Bryan arrives we get set up in adjacent swims, both
of which I’ve baited up
recently. There are a few
fish showing nearby, but I’m a little worried
about the weather-it’s freezing cold and the
forecast is for intermittent very heavy
rain. If there is one thing
for sure to switch the fish off at Dinton in the
autumn it’s cold heavy rain.
As
we get the rods set up, it pours with freezing cold
rain. There’s not as
much activity as I had hoped for, even though less
than 2 days ago the fish were on the bait big
time.
Monday
2nd October
There’s
hardly any carp activity in the area so I take a good
look around the Beach area.
There are fish moving in front of the Beach swim, and
it’s still free so we decide to move in
there. Bryan will go in the Beach
swim and I’ll drop in next door in a seldom
fished swim in the woods. I’m
confident of catching in here though, there’s a
lot of weed but several good clear patches.
As
we pack up the stuff for the move, my old mate John
Spiros (I think he’s Greek) turns up for a walk
with his two Jack Russells, named Amber and
Maisie. Whatever possessed him to
give them names like that? Soppy
girlie names they are John, what’s the matter
with you? Anyway, John’s
standing there in the pouring rain getting very wet,
so I drag out the conversation a little, even though
he’s desperate to get under cover somewhere.
Off John goes, and Bryan and
I get packed up and move round to the Beach.
The
new swims look good and as we are getting set up a
couple of fish show nearby. It is
still pouring with cold rain however, so I’m
not getting too
excited.
The
right hand rod is baited up heavily right next to a
massive weedbed, with about 20 balls of Hinders Blitz
groundbait laced with 12mm Blitz boilies, tuna,
chopped shrimps and mashed mussels, with a small
Blitz hookbait. The
left hand rod is baited with a small Nutz boilie
fished over a light patch of groundbait and mixed
particles.
Bryan has
got his baits in the prime big fish spot, quite close
in on hard spots next to the big weed
beds. The rain has eased off
now and the lake looks perfect in the evening
sun.
Tuesday
3rd October
530am and
the Blitz rod absolutely creams off into the
weed. After a bit of pulling
and tugging I get the fish moving and after a
spirited fight a large mirror rolls into the
net. Elated, I weigh the fish at
just under 30lb. It’s a
good looking deeply coloured fish.
At
dawn we photograph the fish in the morning sun and
she looks gorgeous. It’s a
fish known as Heart Tail and the weight is 29lb
4oz.
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