Tylers Common

The fishing was proving to be pretty easy, but I was missing the odd bite, stepping up to a 14 fixed this. I hadn’t even got the stopwatch out at this point and the only hard part was fishing under a brolly which is always a pain, it just gets in the way. I carried on catching carp up to around 4 lb, bites coming around 3 minutes or less and when they didn’t I wound in, rebaited and cast back out.

A couple of hours in I already had more than 50lb on the clicker. I had spent about 15 minutes trying to catch the dozens of Carp showing in the edge but there were so many I fail hooked most of them and only landed a couple. I opted for a different approach and changed the edge rig into a slapping rig and just on the top kit tried slapping over some 4mm pellets. The Carp were queueing up and even this had its dangers. I landed 2 Carp very quickly but the third was fail-hooked and took me on a merry dance for a few minutes. Eventually, I reversed it into the landing net, it was hooked in the tail.

I had another hour on the method feeder at 25m, this time with 2mm pellets. Some takes were coming within 45 seconds, I probably spent more time baiting the feeder than I did fishing. 

The clicker was now past 80lb, and those fish in the edge were just begging for me to try again. This time I dropped the loaded method feeder underarm to my right-hand margin. This was just instant line bites, in fact, the line bites were so furious it was hard to tell when it was an actual bite. Several missed bites, or me lifting into liners I needed to do this differently.

Still, under arming into the same spot I didn’t tighten up to the feeder. This reduced the line bites to little taps and I didn’t lift into anything until it was pulling the rod in. This was it, fish after fish, some nearing 6 pounds followed for the last hour of my session taking the clicker to 140, not bad for around 5 hours of fishing.