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bait until it got dark because I knew
the birds would terrorise me. Still,
even though there was just a few
Spombs of boilies, I had around 20
of them diving all over me. At times
like this I have to just look away,
because it really can drive you
insane.
ere was a coot diving down,
picking up my hookbait and making
my alarm beep. is carried on for
around ve minutes. As I sat there
watching the irritating little black
ball of u , I could make out a carp
cruising behind the spot. I jokingly
thought to myself how great it
would be if the carp would just take
my hookbait o this little thief.
en, my rod gave a very positive
few beeps and the line pulled up
tight. In one very quick motion, the
coot legged it and the spool began
to spin. It was indeed the carp that I
had seen at the back of the spot.
Amazingly, it turned out to be a new
PB common and my rst forty from
the Lake at 40¼lb – what an
amazing feeling.
We got the pictures done and I
recast the rod, followed by some
more bait. No more than 20
minutes later I landed a cracking
35lb common on the same rod. It
dried up after that, but I wasn’t
complaining – what an amazingof boilie goes nowhere. I made sure
to take ve kilos of bait a week with
me, and always had a few extra kilos
of shelf-life bait in the van, just in
case I needed it.
On a warm but slightly drizzly
September morning I was doing my
usual lap of the Lake and it was
clearly very busy. I settled for an
area that I had been doing well from
recently and which had a few sh in
front of it, too. I had a cast around
but the only area I fancied was very
shallow; just four feet, in fact. I got
a couple of rigs out there but
refrained from putting out lots ofT
he autumn can often be
very hit and miss at a lot
of lakes nowadays and
Farriers is no di erent.
I knew that they were getting
bigger and to do that they were
eating a lot of bait. It is a tricky
one really, because you need a
lot of bait just to stand a chance
of getting through to a few carp,
and with the water being so
shallow, the birds are a real
pain.
I know that this place gets a bit
of stick for how much bait people
put in, but when you consider how
many big carp are in there, add the
ridiculous number of tench and the
relentless bird attention, and a kilolittle burst of action.
e following week I was quite
keen to get back into the same area
and I managed to do so. I got the
rods back on to the spot, then sat
back and watched the Lake. e
wind was fairly strong and I couldn’t
really see any sh. en there was a
slight break in the weather and I
could make out half a dozen sh
milling around the shallow area that
I was shing to. It didn’t take long
for my rst bite, which resulted in a
cracking mirror just shy of 36lb.
at was the only sh of the
session, but what an amazing sh it
was.
By now the Lake was getting
very busy, but I kept on plugging
away. I shed the following week in
a popular swim known as Windy
Point. Despite nding some lovely
little areas, I didn’t get a bite that
night. I woke a bit despondent the
following morning and left the rods
where they were until I saw
something show. I could make out a
bit of activity slightly further out,
so I had a quick check with the lead
to see what was out there and then
cast a couple of bags to the spot. A
few Spombs of 20mm Vor-TexFARRIERS SEASON
Rich concludes his
campaign on Farriers,
where he enjoyed a
great year and a
fruitful autumn,
catching two 40lb-
plus commons.
PART 3
followed and I sat back for
the afternoon. Eventually
it rattled o , but it weededLeft: Rich usually
Spombed his bait out,
but if he found a few sh
the stick was a subtler
way of getting some
boilies to the areaA mid-thirtyA great end to another
great year – 42lb 6oz of
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