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All's well that ends well - last gasp carp


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Went out around 6:45pm this evening to a municipal lake in a town near to where we live. I knew that I would only have a couple of hours as fishing stops at 9:15pm. No night fishing where I was going. I hadn't prepared any bait so I just took a small box of micro pellets and another small box of Frolics dog biscuits. I took the old dog and that cost me about ten minutes as she is lame, deaf and partially blind. She ambled on behind me sniffing, trouving and generally dawdling as I walked down to the area I'd decided to fish and then I had to get her settled and dip out some water to put in a folding bowl. Eventually I put some bait out and cast into the swim. I was using a simple running lead rig with a short length of heavy rig tubing with a blob of Blu-Tac on it as a flying back lead. I knew that the swim was only 2 foot deep all the way across to the other side so I wanted the line pinning down. The shallow end of the lake is virtually unfished. All the local anglers fish the other end where they can park at the water's edge and all the holiday makers fish the other bank near to the camping park.

 

I'd taken a ten foot ultra modern high modulus rod as that is the maximum length I could use without catching trees in the intended swim. Unfortunately the intended swim was out of bounds due to a temporary closure so I could have taken any length rod. The reel was one of those new-fangled High Tech' designs with a built in sophisticated bite alarm and I didn't bother with rod rests or a chair as they are unnecessary evils.

 

I got the swim boiling straight away. With crayfish that is. They kept nicking the Frolick hook bait so I switched to fake maize popped up about 6 inches. Two hours without as much of a bite and so I tried one last cast away from the baited swim to where I'd seen a couple of fish rolling. I managed to hit one of them with the ledger. Five minutes later, just at the close of play the sophisticated bite alarm sprang into life and I was into a fish. Then the dog fell in. As well as being blind, deaf and old she has virtually no power in her back legs and arthritis in one of her front ones. So I had the rod in one hand with the sophisticated bite alarm going off like a doodle bug and a soggy spaniel in my left hand as I hauled her up the banking to safety. The ultra modern high modulus 1lb test curve rod managed to absorb the carp's lunges until the dog was back on terra firma.

 

After a short, but spirited fight I got the 'Bob Church' reservoir trout net under the fish. The camera data shows 21:11 so I was four minutes inside the legal hours. Got packed up and suddenly the old dog was off like a rocket and beat me back to the van by 50 metres. Could be something to do with here having not had her tea before we came out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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