It was Friday mid afternoon when i arrived at Abbey lake. Throughout June the weather had been very hot and i had only managed a few sessions. When July came the weather turned and the south-westerly that had been blowing hot all summer bought rain and cloud. Time to get back on the...
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My second session on Abbey lake went a little better than my first, but the line between success and failure is always fine. Conditions on my first trip were pukka and i could not have asked for better however my attempts at catching carp from the gully in the first swim failed miserably.
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Winter was upon us without the usual autumnal low pressure systems giving us those wonderful high winds and racing grey Sky's. With high pressure and constant sunshine sport had died on Pingles pool and getting a bite had been very tough indeed.
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Autumn had spread itself across Fenland bringing with it racing grey sky's and winds that blew and howled at the earth like a hounddog in the moonlight. Conditions were perfect and my optimism from the previous day had already been rewarded at dawn with the Black Eyed Common. I had seen carp rolling at long...
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After last weeks amazing session i was really looking forward to getting back to the pool. Conditions were different from the previous weeks late August heatwave, high winds and rain were being pushed by a huge cyclone coming from the west.
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It had already been a very successful session. With two really nice carp already in the bag from my previous days efforts, so i was feeling on top of the world. Everything i had done was for a reason and purpose, all my decisions had been carefully taken and it had all paid off! We...
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When i arrived at the lake i could clearly see that an angler had fished the car parks mate swim the night before but a very large common rolling in the swim and expected wind and rain convinced me to stay at the top end of the lake. I had been successful in this...
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The weather would have suited bondi beach more than Pingles pool but 30 degrees of burning sun or not i headed for Pingles on my mid week day off. I knew it was going to be tough going as little had come out of the pool in recent weeks even though it had been busy.
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It had been 20 years since i had last fished this large gravel pit. Back then it was for the tench and bream. Since then however many carp had managed to swim in and out of the lake during the yearly floods. Many of the lakes along the ouse valley have lost/gained stock during...
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So far it had been a hard summer, with temperatures climbing the fish were spending little time feeding. Apart from a short two hour stalking session I had not returned to the pool to fish since the end of May.
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The weather had turned very hot and so catching fish was going to be hard i knew. It seemed the carp moved around very little when it was this stifling preferring to sit under the lilies out in the lake or in the back bay hidden up in the reeds. If i was going...
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I arrived at the pool in sweltering heat and sat it out all day keeping myself out of the burning sun as much as possible and hydrating! Even though I kept a keen eye on the lake i did not spot a single fish swimming around. Like me no doubt they had found some shade...
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This is the second time of capture for this fish as the previous time was on my first session when I banked two others. Caught from the base of the bar separating the pool and the back bay it took a 14mm Red Berry Popup plus a 16mm Red Berry Hard Hooker on a...
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It was the last morning of my three day stay at Pingles Pool. It had been a good session. With commons of 25lb 10 oz and 29lb 8oz already in the bag, the last (blank) 24 hours did not seem so bad. I had however spent the time well, looking for spots and had...
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