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Copier Technician · 28th October 2007, 06:48 PM

Hi folks, think i'll use this thread as a place to put some of my fishing trips

today i went to The Riddings fishery near Tamworth, fished a pool called The Folly ( my fav. pool ) a couple of knocks & after 20 mins a small roach around half a pound or so. a few more odd bites but not another fish until 2:00PM ( been there since about 7:30AM ) , i was about ready for packing in because it was so dead, but i'd been steadily feeding small particles of bait against the end of a small tree's branches only about 5 feet off the bank. so before packing in, i decided to have a go by the tree, bunged 4 red maggots on a slightly bigger hook, float in, seconds later bite on, after a few mins of fighting a 7lb mirror in the landing net

Threw a bit more loose feed in, dropped the pole rig in place, instant bite again, out goes the elastic, after about 25 mins & a lot of aches & pains caused, a 10lb common in the net ( took 3 attempts to net because the net's to small ) have caught bigger carp, but that was the hardest fighting carp i've ever netted.

Rig back inplace, off again, stretched elastic & off the fish fell

, try again, within 10 mins another mirror in the net, didn't weigh this one, but i recon it was between 3 & 4lb. feeling happy now, few more missed bites, decided to put some more loose feed in, so made the mistake of putting the pole down on 2 rod rests with the float just left in the middle of the water, threw the maggots, heard a strange sound & turned to see my pole air-born 20 yards or so out across the pool!

but luck must have been on my side for a very rare change, because a kind Carpie rescued my pole from the other end of the lake before it had chance to sink

happy days.

28th October 2007, 06:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Copier Technician Pole Juggler Registered member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Measham, Derbyshire Posts: 34	Fishing Adventures of a copier engineer. Hi folks, think i'll use this thread as a place to put some of my fishing trips today i went to The Riddings fishery near Tamworth, fished a pool called The Folly ( my fav. pool ) a couple of knocks & after 20 mins a small roach around half a pound or so. a few more odd bites but not another fish until 2:00PM ( been there since about 7:30AM ) , i was about ready for packing in because it was so dead, but i'd been steadily feeding small particles of bait against the end of a small tree's branches only about 5 feet off the bank. so before packing in, i decided to have a go by the tree, bunged 4 red maggots on a slightly bigger hook, float in, seconds later bite on, after a few mins of fighting a 7lb mirror in the landing net Threw a bit more loose feed in, dropped the pole rig in place, instant bite again, out goes the elastic, after about 25 mins & a lot of aches & pains caused, a 10lb common in the net ( took 3 attempts to net because the net's to small ) have caught bigger carp, but that was the hardest fighting carp i've ever netted. Rig back inplace, off again, stretched elastic & off the fish fell , try again, within 10 mins another mirror in the net, didn't weigh this one, but i recon it was between 3 & 4lb. feeling happy now, few more missed bites, decided to put some more loose feed in, so made the mistake of putting the pole down on 2 rod rests with the float just left in the middle of the water, threw the maggots, heard a strange sound & turned to see my pole air-born 20 yards or so out across the pool! but luck must have been on my side for a very rare change, because a kind Carpie rescued my pole from the other end of the lake before it had chance to sink happy days.