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Dan Goult, Northey Park Autumn Catch Report
I left off with on my last blog saying that my new build wasn’t far off being completed, which it is now, so I have spent the last nearly 2 months moving in and getting sorted. I haven’t had much time to get the rods out, but I did managed to get Friday 31st of October booked off work, and got the nod from the missus to get out for two nights.
I knew my syndicate; northey park was throwing up a few fish, so that’s where I planned to head. I arrived at first light on the Friday morning, to find a few anglers on, mainly along one bank. As I walked into a swim known as ‘Eliott’s pitch’ a lad was just packing up after a quiet night. Whilst talking to him and keeping an eye on the water I noticed a couple of subtle shows. Once he was packed and gone I carried on watching from this swim but didn’t see anything else to go on. With the signs I had seen and seeing as the opposite bank to this swim was pretty stitched up. I knew this could be a good bet seeing as I would be the only angler on this bank and that the fish may well push away from all the pressure the other side.
I soon was flicking a bare lead around the swim, looking for some presentable spots. I know in the summer this swim was absolutely chocca with weed, but this had died back a considerable amount. I soon found some firm silt spots, that we’re more than presentable. With three rigs on the spots I added 30 to 40 15mm equinox boilies that had been glugged in matching bait dip whilst they were still frozen, so they draw some of it in when the defrost, scattered over each one.
The morning had soon turned into afternoon and with the odd show close by, I was fairly confident. But that afternoon soon turned to evening and evening to early morning. I awoke on the Saturday morning to a dry net. With my good mate Dan on his way down, I stuck the coleman on to make us a brew. We were soon off for a walk to see if we could find them, as I had hardly seen any movement in front of me. Two laps of the lake later and we was still none the wiser as to they’re where abouts.
With now seven anglers on the lake, and the majority of them on the opposite bank, I thought it best to stay where I was for the last night. So I topped up my spots with another 1/2 kilo of the glugged equinox, and decided to rest the swim for the afternoon with no lines in the water and pop and see my mate Dan who had set up in a bay down to my left. We spent the afternoon having a bit of a social and a good catch up. The light began to fade so knew had to get my rods back out on the spots, I topped up each spot with another 20 baits just I case they had been and had a free feed.
With the rods out I stuck tea on for me and Dan, just as we started tucking in, we heard one bosh out in the darkness, so shot down the bank to see if we could see where it was, and saw the ripples were coming from just behind my left hand spot. Over the next two hours we see nearly 30 shows just behind the left hand rod. They had moved into my water big style, it probably helped keeping the lines out the water for the afternoon, leaving them to move into quieter areas away from the pressure from the opposite bank to me. All what was left now was to hope one slipped up and made a mistake.
Through the night was quiet with only the odd liner. With that many showing though I knew something had to happen. It did, at around 5:30am my left hander pulled up tight, upon picking the rod up it was nearly torn from me, as whatever I’d hooked took off. After probably 5 minutes of it tearing about, I was beginning to think it was most probably one of the lakes smaller carp, as the ‘A’ team usually just seem to plod about. Nearly 15 minutes past with the unseen carp tearing about the water in front of me, then in the very dim light I managed to get it in the net first time though. I put the net down and went and grabbed my head torch, picking the net up I expected to see a 20 pounder, but what I did see was a rather large chunk. A quick shout to Dan, and he was soon with me to help with un-hooking and weighing. As we rested her in the un-hooking mat we both recognised her as the ‘Amazon’ fish. On the scales, they swung round to 37lb 8oz, and we both couldn’t believe it as she was well up in weight from her last capture. So we zeroed the scales again and hoisted her up, lo and behold they settled on 37lb 8oz again. I was well made up, a proper late autumn chunk!
I placed her in the retention sling to wait for some good light to get some pics, and stuck the kettle on. With a couple of brews sunk it was soon light enough for a few snaps, she looked absolutely stunning in her autumn colours and behaved well for the pics. With her I returned I was soon packing my gear away on cloud 9, as another one on the hotlist was ticked off. I later found out that ‘Amazon’ was the only one caught that weekend to 7 seven anglers on the lake. I caught her on a 15mm Equinox hard hook bait that I trimmed the top off slightly and tipped it with half a 10mm matching pop up, to balance it. This was fished on a blowback rig, which was nearly 2inches back in her mouth! She certainly wanted that Equinox!
This article was seen first on CC Moore’s Bait Blog
