Sycamore Fisheries 15/07/11

Got a match on here next month and as I've not seen the place for a couple of years I thought a little session wouldn't do any harm. I arrived about 1pm after cutting down on my sleep (I was on nights) and my Dad was already fishing. He had just started so he claimed and hadn't caught yet. He was on peg 8 on Davids Pool so I dropped on peg 7. The fishery had matured in the last couple of years and looked a lot more "fishy".

Davids Pool, Sycamore Fisheries

Dad On Peg 8

I set up three rigs all at nine & half metres, the first for on the deck (5ft) which was a 0.4 Hillbilly Shindig to 0.13 line to a Preston PB36 hook. Elastic was the red fox hollow which I think is about 12's to 16's. The second was an up in the water rig set about 18 inches deep. It was a Malman MTD 0.1g to 0.14 to a 16s Animal hook. White Hydro was the elastic. The third was a SconeZone "Wellardz" set the same depth but 0.16 line to a 18s Preston PB36. This rig was a banded pellet hair rig. Preston Yellow Hollow elastic which is a 17' elastic completed the
   I started on the deck. I cupped half a Drennan pot of pellets in then started using my full depth rig. It started slow but began to get a couple of skimmers. All the time I'd been pinging a few 4mm pellets in so I switched to a shallow rig with a 4mm Ringers Expander on the hook and got a couple of small skimmers then the white hydro shot out and I was attached to a angry carp. It was only a couple of pounds but with plenty reeds around it gave me a few anxious moments before it was in the net. Another carp soon followed and another before I switched to black hydro. This was much better and had much more control over the next carp.
  My peg was fizzing like mad so I went back to full depth and got another couple of carp on the expander, then it slowed down so back up in the water, this time with a banded 6mm pellet and another four carp graced my net before I called it a day and ended my short session.
  Dad had got in on the action and was catching barbel and carp on paste, something he doesn't normally use so he was well happy. As I drove off it started to rain and got heavier and heavier and just for once I'd beaten it.
The rain would get its revenge the next session.

Gary