So my lovely wife let me go for another night fishing session with the NAA. I decided on Collins as there seems to be plenty of 20's available and my PB is still a lowly 14 lb 6 oz. I got dropped off on Monday morning and made my way with all my kit to Collins Lake. I made a circuit of the lake but didn't see any fish and the corner I would have prefered due to the wind conditions already had two anglers in it so I opted for the peg with no number that I could see but it has a memorial bench for "Tonka".
I decided on this spot as I had seen plenty of fish here on my previous visit and with no other signs to go on why not. I had mixed up my spod mix the night before to let it soak in all its own oils etc ready for this session. I spodded to the left of the island with about twenty spods then cast my snowman rig to the edge of the spodded area. To my left I cast out a 6 foot zig rig to see if I could tempt anything midwater.
Nothing showed all day I made some hot water with my new camping stuff for a Mug Shot. I then used the same gear to heat up a Big Soup Steak and veg that was quite good actually.
I found a spot under a tree that I had been feeding all day with the hope this might give any fish some confidence the plan being to drop in a PVA bag at dusk and leave one rod in the margin. Alas in the morning when I reeled in the margin rod I think I had cast onto a broken of twig that was submerged so nothing there unfortunately :(.
Around 7pm I had re-spodded the spot off the island and I decided to leave it for a couple of hours to settle. Whilst I waited I wandered off to one of the corners off Collins and used some lures for a bit of predator fishing. After and hour or so and no fish I went back to my swim.
I spodded another five times then cast out my snowman set up again and got into bed about 10pm. Alas apart from the odd liner I had no action and neither did anyone else on the lake. 4:30am I was awake and seeing still nothing showing I decided to pack up my gear and go to Knotts lake next to Collins and predator fish for a few hours until my wife came to pick me up.
On the third peg I tried number 37 on Knotts I managed to catch a little "Jack" Pike of 850gms thus saving the blank lol.
