sunday 16th november

WILLINGHURST PIKEY'S TEAMS OF SIX

What can i say, i'm going right off the the place,in the last two visits i have in total caught 9lb of fish !! hence the lack of enthusiasm for writing this blog...any way round 4 saw me pegged on the back spit of top lake, peg 26 to be precise .. and not where i wanted to be say the least.
Any way the game plan was to set up two pole rigs, one on the in side line and one for the long pole at 16mtr both baited with either pellet or corn and a bomb rod set up for tight over to the far bank with the same bait but hair rigged.

Any way the all 'in' is shouted and i ship out my long pole rig with a single pellet on and hope i hook a mug fish on which never happened, after about 15 minutes i shipped back,put my top kit on the pole roost and picked up my bomb rod,on which is an eleven foot carbon active with a 1oz tip,and the reel is an old shimano 5010gt bait runner with 6lb maxima and 0.21 hook length and a 16 hook and a half ounce lead, so that's the set up .. simple.

Any way after an two hour wait and two casts and not even a liner and just sitting watching a motionless tip and catupulting a few pellets over to the far bank i'm bored ridged to say the least,need another plan as its very obvious that there's no carp in my peg, so a quick dive in my rod holdall to grab another top kit with light elastic, and opened my one of my rig draws on my box to retrieve a roach rig and hopefully catch a few as theres been a few small fish topping.

After a quick plumb up at 12mtrs i had two and a half foot of depth, 4x12 carpa chimp set to fish on the drop with a size 20 hook and a .10 hook lenght, and i quickly cupped in some micro pellets and maggots,shipped back out with the rig baited with single maggot,dropped the rig in let it settled and it dipped and slid under and a 40z roach is on its way in,shipped back out again and had another but smaller about 20z on which was the average stamp of the day so after a few of these i went back out on the tip again and took to the willinghurst stance...for those who don't know what this is its basically this ...you cast you feeder/lead out flick your rod tip sink your line and fold your arms and just sit and stare at your rod tip in a real vain hope that a carp will take your bait followed by a few of its mates.Any way the 'all' out was shouted and my few roach weighed in for 2 1/2lb at least i didn't blank !!