practice Session - Riverton House and Lakes

With The warmer upon us, I decided to venture out to Riverton House and Lakes which is around 3 miles from My House. My Main reason for the visit was to Try and catch some fish on some of the Krill & Tuna Method mix from Bait-Tech. Not only was I going to use this on the Method feeder but I intended to dump it down the edge and try for some of the resident Lumps that live in Willow Lake.

On arrival the lake looked in lovely condition and Karl the owner has done a fantastic job, I decided to fish peg 3 as there was a clear mud patch against the far bank that I intended to cast my Feeder to. The Fish were crashing around all over the lake and it was apparent that the warmer weather had kick started the spawning sequence. Would this prove to make the fishing difficult???

My set up for the day consisted of my ever trust worthy Mosella Avalon 10ft Revolution Bomb Rods, My Daiwa Whisker Reels loaded with 6lb Line. A small 24g Guru X-Safe feeder and a 4inch 0.19 HL with a Guru bayonet. Hook baits would be a variety of Meat, Maggot, Boilies.

That's the Far line sorted now I proceeded to set up my pole, I picked a spot in my margin at around 9m from my swim, Here I had an old tree that over hung the water, A perfect holding area. I set my rigs up and they would be identical in case of any problems.

The Rig comprised of 0.19 Ngauge to a 0.17 Hook link, Float of choice would be a DT Float diamond margin in 0.3g. A simple Spread Bulk And a size 12 B911X. Hook baits for here would be either a bunch of dead maggot, double meat or a bunch of worms.

I started off by cast my method to the island for the first hour with very little to show for it apart from 2 small roach and a Skimmer of around 1lb. This tempted me to dump some GB down the edge, so I potted in 5 large pots full of GB. Over the top I potted 1 pot of Loose offerings and then cast the Method out to the Island. Within 30 seconds the rod was almost pulled from the rest and after a short battle a Carp of around 6lb was laying in the net. This carried on for another 45mins with Around 10 more Fish being caught.

Last hour was approaching and I could see some Swirls and Tail patterns on the Margin Line, I could not resist anymore, Picked up the Pole and In it went. I didnt have to wait very long as The float Shot under and My Black NG Elastic was streaming out the end of the Pole. After A battle which seemed to last forever I scooped the net under a mirror Carp of around 8lb, What a start I thought and immediately re baited my rig and got it straight back in. About 2 mins later it shot away again And another Fish of around 6lb was soon in the net. Four more Fish later and I decided to call it a day.

Not a bad start to my first use with the Krill & Tuna, And I will definitely be using it for all my fishing from now on.

I finished the Day with 17 Fish For around 90lb, Not bad when the Fish were preoccupied and around 3 hours Fishing.