On the 20th September, I decided to pay a visit to Passies Ponds in Sussex and chose to fish on the main lake. I arrived at the lake around 9:45am and after a quick scan of the lake I chose to fish a swim with a large expanse of open water to the right of me and a section of the island straight in front of me. I hoped to catch a few carp and if I was lucky maybe a double would come along.
I decided to fish two legers, both set up with a simple knotless knot rig to a size 12 barbless hook. Bait wise I opted to fish with either single or double 6mm Breamax Jelly Pellet or 6mm Polar Ice Pellet. Each rod was fished with a PVA bag of Carp Vader pellets in mixed sizes in the following flavours: Predator Plus, Polar Ice, Natural and Schnitzel Wurst.
After 10 minutes of casting out the right hand rod screamed off and a couple of minutes later I was unhooking and returning a lovely golden looking 6lb common carp. Unfortunately my digital camera is broken and all the photos that I had taken today had to be done on my mobile phone - so they may be a bit blurry.
Here is the 6lb common:
Over the next couple of hours, the bites continued steadily on both rods and I managed to land another 4 carp (between 3lb and 7lb 8oz), 3 bream and I also lost 2 carp. I was just tying up some more PVA bags when I received a lovely slow and steady take on the rod fished towards the island. As soon as I struck I realised this was a much larger fish, instead of tearing off, it was more of a slow plodding fight. After what seemed an eternity I slid a cracking mirror in to the waiting net. It definitely looked well over my target of a double and I was delighted to see the scales read out 15lb 1oz.
Here it is:
At around 1pm some anglers set up either side of me and my casting had to be restricted to a smaller area, luckily this didn’t reduce the amount of bites I was getting. Over the next 3 or 4 hours I managed to land 9 more carp and 3 more bream. The people either side of me were shocked by the amount of action I was getting, I often had bites within 3 or 4 minutes of casting out and on 3 occasions I had two fish in the net at the same time! The 3 people on each side of me only managed 2 carp and a bream between them - even though they were only a few yards from my swim and were casting in similar areas!
Here was my favourite fish from that hectic part of the day - a common just over 8lb:
As I was packing up and reflecting on such a marvellous day’s fishing, I received one more run and to my delight the fish felt quite big. After a fun battle on light tackle I was delighted to see a lovely common roll into the net. It looked like it may be close to another double and I was pleased to see it pass the 10lb mark by 12oz.
Here it is:
Overall, I had really enjoyed a very fun productive day’s fishing and finished with a total of 16 carp and 6 bream.
Great Carp Session
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