2011 It all starts to happen again

Well i don't really know i how I'm gonna start this but the start of this year I have really got my fishing buzz back with no commitments other than work, and a real urge to got out as much as i can this year.
      Well back a couple of years ago my uncle Steve got a ticket on a Syndicate near stansted and so did then my Dad and Paul, so me and Ash then wanted one and with it coming for the door last week this is going to be my challenge for the year with there being 6/7 40's in there.

    But with not being able to fish there until June the 18th I needed to try and keep busy on the bank so the last couple of months i have been fishing all over the place. I did a 2 night session over wivenhoe match pit as i wasn't going to be keeping my ticket on there as this one had come up, and also did some time over a CAPS water called Inworth Grange as i knew i wasn't going to be keeping that ticket either.

Inworth Grange

This is a little water that is situated in Tiptree near colchester and it has a fair stock of carp with a few of the fish more than welcome on my mat. So on the first trip over there in March it was the time of the supermoon. With not much happening the 2 nights that me and ash where there for, we just ended up taking some photos on his digital camera, whilst hoping the the rods where going scream off !

Being out on this night was mental i have never seen anything like it, it was like daylight but at night. Unfortunately neither of us had any joy on that weekend but the following weekend was different !


The Following week

       With another week of work done it was time to get down the lake as early as possible to beat the weekend bandits. I was very lucky that on my arrival of the lake it was empty so i had pick of the draw, so i took the opportunity to walk around for a few hours to see if i could see any activity. Finally decided on where to plot up, after seeing a few signs of fish in the shallower part of the lake.
      I managed to set the gear up after finding the spots and the waiting game began, well it was first light the following morning that one of the rods that was fished on a hard spot at around 30 yards out with around 100 DT N-blend scattered around the spot, was into action and it was one of the stockies at 21.6lb.  It was quite funny as i thought i was the only one down the lake but it turned out that a pike fisherman had turned up super early and was a couple of swims down from me, so asked him if he could take some shots for me which he did very well !



With the fish slipped back it was time to put the kettle on and have a fag ! shortly followed by a bacon sandwich. Now i was thinking on weather to move so i reeled the rods in and spent the best part of the day looking for signs of fish, and it wasn't until about midday i see a few fish up in the upper layers in-front of where i was fishing, so on went a zig rig to tempt them but unfortunately had no joy.

   I decided that staying where i was, was going to be my best option as it was the only end of the lake that i had seen fish. So with dusk closing in the rods where set on the spots that i felt confident with and dinner was cooked. And again the following morning at the same time the rod that i had previously had the fish on the morning before screamed into life, after a lively fight another fish was in the net, Happy days ! It was another one of the stockies that been put into the lake around 4 years ago and this weighed in at 22.4lb i was more than happy and a end to a good trip.