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Lake Bolsena 2nd - 8th September 2012
| Andy C’s Big Foreign Water Carper Part 23 |
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 Still no action during the day as this is when I normally expect most action, looked like it would be a nice day and I could get some solar charge but clouded up in the afternoon. Went foraging for mushrooms in the afternoon but couldn’t find any that I thought were eatable but did find lots of chestnuts to roast.
The only problem was how to best cook them. I tried just putting them in the fire but too hit and miss. Then tried wrapping them in foil like jacket spuds, again, not brilliant results. I then thought last nights curry tin would be the answer and keep rattling the tin to shake them up and distribute the heat and hey presto it worked,  perfect roast chestnuts which went down very nicely against the chill of an overcast October afternoon.Redone a couple of rods as it looks like I have finally baited off the crays in that the baits are okay for 24 hours now rather than 12, although it could be that they are less active at 45ft than 30ft. Will have to send the cray trap down to investigate, getting a good supply just using crays and boilies as bait in it, so plenty still about. Listened to the football on world service, as it was a Sunday, then about 9ish had a drop back on the 45ft rod again, winding for ages and thought it had come off but caught up with it eventually. Played it from the bank as the wind was blowing a bit and it came it quite routinely, nice mid 20, put it straight back as didn’t want to sack it all night. Not so many fish crashing last night so as I write this during run time the last two mornings not sure it will happen. It would be nice if this cold wind stopped blowing straight in the bivvy and a bit of sun wouldn’t go amiss today either. The lake has also emptied and there is now only one other angler on the whole lake, which is great, nice and quiet and peaceful.  I thought I had missed run time the following morning, which had been a couple of hours either side of first light but at 10 o’clock the 45ft rod was away, steady fish which came into the margin okay then just wouldn’t come to the net. Time and time I got it close but it just wouldn’t come in, it got boring after a while because I could see it was a thirty but it took a good 15 minutes before if was finally in the net, a bionic 32 mirror. It looked good for some more action on that rod as another good fish crashed over that spot just as I landed the mirror. The next chance latter in the day was another of those that really wind me up, I’d had chances on 3 out of the 4 spots and after four days decided to move the rod which hadn’t had a sniff down to the margin on my near right. No real features there but fish had crashed there most nights, so just before reeling the rod in I took the rod off the Delkim and put it on to a single bank stick down that margin. I was just pushing it into the ground when I heard a strange clicking noise. It was only the clutch going on the rod as I left it on the pod. Four days and not a bleep and within a minute its away, I rush around to the rod as the fish powers down the slope, it feels snagged so take to the boat where the fish has snagged me in 50ft and eventually the line parts. Just mad you try to make things happen and sometimes they just take the mick. The night turns quiet and still and the fish are back crashing for a while until it turns very foggy and cold, by morning there’s a frost and it’s just a horrible cold, miserable, murky day. Unsurprisingly no fish are seen nor caught the buzzers going silent. By evening though it’s overcast, temperatures are rising and the odd carp can be heard jumping. I pulled the long rod I had along the margin I lost the last fish to back on the same spot and it was this rod that burst into life again at 4 o’clock the next morning. Strange how some spots are quiet for so long and then start producing. It’s nothing big, mid twenties, which I sack for photos at first light. The rain continues periodically until dawn when it brightens up and might even get a bit of sun, which would be good, the baits going down fast now but should just last. Well that’s just about the end, I decide to move down the lake and closer to the car for the last few days not least to get some sun and get out of this cold wind, I manage another small fish but it just isn’t happening. I have a bit of good fortune packing up, it rained the previous 24 hours but stopped for a bit on a Monday morning, so everything is bundled into the boat and I’m off. I manage to get some petrol at the local village (petrol strikes were on) and within half an hour the skies are filled with snow. Blizzrads rage across the hills as I try and make it to the motorway, I even have a deer try and crash into my car for good measure. The journey around Paris is stop start with accident after accident and then my exhaust just about falls off around the M25, happy days and I’m glad to get home. That’s the European fishing finished till the spring, I’m looking forward to doing some winter fishing on my local lake and try and catch and English carp for the first time years.Whatever fishing you do and whatever size carp you catch enjoy it and have fun, thanks for reading. |
