I started fishing at the 25-meter mark, a couple of quick baiting casts, left for a couple of minutes and I settled in for what I expected to be a slow start. I was wrong and was into fish straight away, carp up to 5lb and a bonus Skimmer of around 2lb. I carried on catching here, only leaving the feeder in for a maximum of 15 minutes. I caught regularly for around 90 minutes then things slowed down. With 2 casts and no fish, I changed tactics.

I cast out to my far side clip, changing the method feeder to a 45gr hybrid feeder as I was not always hitting the clip at 30gr. I also prefer the hybrid for longer casts, I just have more confidence the bait will get to the bottom.

I had seen signs of fish here but no bites in the first 30 minutes so I moved away from the bank a couple of meters to the deeper water and changed bait to a yellow 8mm wafter. This proved to be the right thing to do and I was into another Carp, Around 4lb which took a little while to get in because of the extra distance. I stayed on this line for about an hour but it wasn’t as good as the middle earlier.

I had seen some fish under the platform I was fishing on so tried 30 mins under arming to about 10 meters. I had a couple of bites here but didn’t hook into anything, maybe line bites? So it was back to the middle with the hookable expander for the last hour which although slower still bought me a few more carp and skimmers, the biggest skimmer around 3lb.

I packed up the tackle around 2 pm and headed back to the car and home for a warm shower and some tea.