Sunday 26th February pleasure session Horseshoe Lake Kingston Seymour

I wasn't sure whether or not to fish this weekend, there was no Club Match and didn't fancy travelling very far after spending best part of 2 days working in London and to be honest felt pretty knackered. A change of heart late Saturday afternoon say me rumaging through my bait store in the garage to see what I had, plenty of mirco and some 4 mm and about half a pint of dead red in the freezer. I then went on line to check out the bookings for the local lakes, Bullock Farm had only one lake booked for a match and the big lake at Plantations was also taken leaving Horseshoe free, I fancied Horshoe as there was likely to be more room. Sunday morning came, got up at 9 a.m. and cooked some breakfast, loaded up the car and arried at Horshoe just after 10 a.m. only about 6 anglers on the lake so picked a spot on the island well away from everyone else. Bit bright today and quite warm, little or no wind. Due to bait limitations it was to be soft 6mm pellet or dead read on the hook, the float was some kind of senas 4 x 14, 0.13 mainline to a 0.10 hooklength with a MT6 size 18 fished approx 11 meters out at about 4 foot just at the bottom of the shelf of the sunken island, another rig was made up exactly the same and I could fish them at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock as it was all the same deph, lovely.

view from my peg

I cupped in some wetted micro and a few dead reds on all lines, first put in straight in front of me the float sailed away and a foul hooked carp of about 2lb was soon in the net. I had bites and fish all day on all lines except the 9 o'clock one, bet fish was about 5lb and I have 4 nice 2lb skimmers as well. It was a real treat to see the float go under on a regular basis again. A specialist angler came along and set up a couple of pegs away and had some cracking perch on lobb worm, best one almost 4lb. I packed up just before 4 p.m. and ended up with well over 50lb, the specalist angler kindly took a picture of me with my catch.

A great days fishing which didn't cost a lot as I used about a pint of micro, a few soft pellets and no more than quarter pint of dead reds.

Next week we have a club match which is scheduled for the River Kenn (oh dear)