On Friday, I had yet another session at Passies Ponds on the Main lake. I arrived at the lake at approximately 9:45am and was pleased to find the whole lake empty apart from one other swim taken. I wasted no time in setting up and was cast out by 10am.
Bait wise I opted to fish with a single legered hair rigged 6mm pellet - in either Carp Vader Halibut Crab or Polar Ice flavour. Like usual, before casting out I hooked on a PVA bag of Carp Vader pellets made up of a variety of flavours and sizes.
Within half an hour, I had had a bite on each rod, unfortunately after a couple of seconds each fish came adrift - one felt like a reasonable sized carp, while the other was probably a bream. My disappointment was soon forgotten about as a carp screamed off with my Polar Ice pellet. After a lively scrap, I soon slid a pretty mirror carp into the net.
Here it is:
During the next two and a half hours, I landed another 6 bream and a couple of small commons.
Here is one of the bream:
The action then slowed down considerably, all I could do was sit, wait and pray!
Eventually I received a twitchy bite on the Halibut Crab rod, as I was playing the fish (a bream), the other rod went off too - I quickly bundled the bream into the net and grabbed the other rod, shortly afterwards a small carp joined the bream in the same landing net.
Here they are:
I fished on for another hour or so and was rewarded with another 4 bream and a nice mirror carp of around 6lb.
Quite a few of the bream had wounds on them, where they had been attacked by Passies' resident cormorant. I treated all of the wounds with Nash Medi-Carp, so hopefully they should heal soon.
Here is me treating one of the bream:
Overall, although nothing large came along, I still had a nice few hours fishing and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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