Getting back on the bank!

After an incredibly busy, hard and stressful winter at the lakes and settling up a new project; fishing has been hard to come by to say the least!

But over the last few weeks as things get back into a routine I have been sure to make a little time for myself and to get the rods out.  

I am lucky to have access to a cracking water not too far from home, and as we are still getting very cold nights and average days it has suited me perfectly because the big public waters will not have woken up yet.

I was lucky enough to have a few days at the lake in the autumn. Within a few hours I managed one of the lakes biggest residents which was awesome, especially as they most probably had never seen a boilie before.

50 or so Pro Liver GLM baits and a king Squid 10% over the top quickly tripped that one up.

But the next few days trips were uneventful, I couldn't really work out where they were, especially as the majority of the lake is 20ft deep.

Fast forward to this spring, and last week I went back for another go with the intention to really attack that deep water.

I managed to get two bites on that first afternoon and had hookpulls on them both! 2 a year I can just about handle, 2 in a few hours was ridiculous! So a few changes

were made, flat leads, higher pop ups, more boilie and less pellet plus tighter lines. That soon fixed things and I managed a little wild common and one of the newer residents that hadn't seen the bank since stocked a few years before.

Those 1^st 4 bites all came on Sea Monster Pop Ups over Pro Liver GLM.

So when I returned earlier this week for my 2^nd 24 hour trip I had a plan. I was pretty sure I knew their routine and I knew I had bait they wanted.

I started by investigating an area with the marker, something I almost never do, but it paid off very quickly, after 20 odd casts and 2kg of boilie, I really wasn't expecting the rod to rattle off after only 20 minutes, this time with a cracking mirror that again hadn't seen the bank before, and from a bite at 22ft I knew I had a spot.

The rest of the afternoon was quiet and as evening set in I knew that morning was my next chance as almost the whole stock seemed to have moved to the opposite side of the lake Infront of JP, and as you will have seen he made the most of it!

The night was expedely quiet for me, but at 6am the middle rod in 18ft absolutely melted off and I was rewarded with another cracking mirror, again a new one in the bank.

A few hours later as the sun burnt through the cold my margin rod was also away. This time a wild and super angry looking common stuck his dorsal up for the camera.

I am looking forward to getting back there next week for maybe my last visit of the spring.

Will one of the fully scaled mirrors make an appearance?

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