Ace Grab the Net!” Shouts Chappers the Seasoned Vet

Dangling his Maggot!

So we had been baiting the chosen peg with maggots several days before the session, and we suspected that Ace’s peg was being baited up by someone else, on the friday before the session the suspected outcome dawned on us, Ace was on a solo baiting trip when he was shocked to come accross “Mr Nash”  bivvied up with supreme confidence in the targeted peg.

“Bollocks”, so what now, luckily we had been priming another spot on the lake which looked like it had seen some attention, the active 8 boilies shipped in by the kilo were sure to provide some action if the other spots failed.

The Session Kicks off to a Bang!

So the session came to us quickly, we turned up expecting dissapointment and a day of stalking only to be confronted by the man with possibly the redest cheaks in the world! He quickly whipped out his pictures of the several carp he had in one morning on big pit!, only to be shocked that Mr Nash had up sticks and left after little over 12 hours on the peg, “bonus”. So after a quick check on the boilied up peg we scampered the mile hike from the car park to the peg we had primed, with little more than a sliver of nash packaging left in the peg there was no evidence of a busy session the night before so we sat down and got the rods out!

Ten minutes later “beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep” Chappers was off, the 25 yard sprint from Ace’s peg took a Ussain Bolt esque 2 seconds flat, and upon lifting the rod it was evident it was a beauty, 50 yards out the carp banged its head spooking all kinds of wildlife, and after around 20 mins there it was cruising over the baited spot only 3 yards from the bank and we had it! GET IN! The first carp from the Swan and it was a cracker!

24lb 5 of pure dark common, with all the evidence pointing to the fact this fish had never been caught Chappers was chuffed.

So after several hours of hammering Ace with abuse about his lack of runs we stoked up the barbie and chowed down on several dozen tins of the finest cider this side of Ireland.

Typical Ace Antics

As it was getting towards dark Ace swiftly opted for Chappers maggot rigs as the right way to go, after recasting his 3 rods we sat down to contemplate the evenings events. But then I was shocked when Ace bank this beast, HP’s finest chilli sauce! Possibly the finest fishermans friend. While also being the heaviest thing Ace has lifted in a while.

With the carp reasonably active, it was evident that they were chowing down on naturals, bloodworm no doubt, we were half confident of another run as the night drew in. Nothing else came of it, and we spent most of the time left contemplating the reasoning, it seemed the sun had a big effect on the feeding patterns of the residents, do bloodworms dislike sunlight?

And so are not as active on the lake bed, so maybe affecting the amount of carp that feed on them during sunlight? just a though for further reading I guess.

Here’s the rig that done the business on the day, a simple medussa rig with a small section of anti eject tubing, fished only a few yards from the bank with a heavily scattered maggots, though the key to this I believe was the bloodworm mix we included on the rig using mesh, a simple concoction of crushed bloodworm boilies, bloodworm pellets and bloodworm attractant.

No doubt Ace and Chappers will be back with more “ya mum” jokes than the typical sunday league team. Just as a parsing shot here’s an example of the jokes that get thrown out:

Chappers: “I reckon I could ram a few more maggots in there”

Ace: “Thats what ya mum said”

On that note I bid you good night and tight lines from everyone at Carpit