NAA - Dobsons 20130515 Peg 40

My second night session of the year was on Dobsons Lake at the Newbury.  Once again I had the lake to myself which is always nice.  No fish were on show when I did my circuit of the lake.  I decided to fish off of the point to the island which is a huge swim and so easy to get all my gear in.

I decided to use a Sticky baits Krill pop up with the matching glug which was cast out within a PVA solid bag with mixed size pellets.  Within a couple of hours I was into a nice common :).  4.54 Kg or 10 lb.






At 01:00 am my rod screamed of with this gorgeous Mirror Carp which I thought may break my rather pathetic PB of 14 lb 6 oz unfortunately it wasn't to be this one weighed in at 6.26 Kg or 13 lb 8 oz.




At 01:45 I kept getting a beep then it would go quite then beep again a short while later I suspected this was a Bream given that I had changed from the Krill pop up to the new Korda flavoured pop up Maize.  After the third beep I got out of the bivvy and stood ready to strike on the next beep.  Strike i did and I was into another fish.  I was right a Bream that I had managed to foul hook in a pectoral fin.  1.42Kg or 3 lb 12 oz.

The bream was to be the last fish of the session but I love to see the morning views of the lake which I am going to share with you guys below.  :)

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NAA - Dixons 20130429-30 Peg 25

 First Night session of the year this one.  For it I opted for the Dixon lake at the Newbury Angling Association lakes.  The lake is the furthest from the car park but as I was going to be there overnight I didn't mind lugging my gear all that way.  I arrived at the swim around 17:00 and again much like the last session I could see plenty of fish on the surface.  Again I set up a Zig Rig 12" under the surface however on this lake i had never fished it before so I did use a marker rod to find the centre depth.  I only did this the once as I did not want to spook the fish too much.

Within the first hour I had a good fight with my biggest fish of the year so far..  4.89 Kg or 10 lb 12.4 oz.  Lovely looking common carp.

Unfortunately that was the only take of the entire session/night.  I discovered in the morning that my PVA bags had not been done correctly and fouled the rig so my own fault.  Some stunning views though in the morning.  These are shown below.

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NAA - Dobsons 20130425 Peg 25

Sorry everyone bit late posting this and the next couple of blogs...(2 months late lol).  I was made redundant from my job at the end of March so I have taken the opportunity to do some fishing. :)

This session was late April and quite a warm day.  I arrived at Dobsons and as usual walked around the lake.  Not that there was much need mind the carp were all on the surface only 100 yards or so up from the car park.  Having quickly got around to the swim close to the fish I proceeded to set up a zig rig.  I already knew the depth of the area and set up 12" below the surface.  The hook bait was a piece of pink foam.  I couldn't of had the rig in place 5 minutes when it tore off.  The first carp shown above was 1.91Kg (4 lb 3.4oz in old money).

I kept the same setup and bait and was rewarded with the carp left.  2.54 Kg or 5 lb 9.6 oz

The next fish, another common, was caught on a red Amber berry popup.  2.63 Kg or 5 lb 12.4 oz






The last fish of the session was the biggest at 3.64 Kg or 8 lb.








Great session first proper session were lots of fish were fairly easily caught.  Rather funny that each fish was bigger than the last.  Is summer finally here?

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