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Lake Bolsena 3rd - 9th September 2012

Andy C's Spring Session Pt 3 Print E-mail
Having left Paraloup early this left me with a decision to make as to where to fish next as as predicted the long spell of rain had made the Lot difficult to fish, so I decided to go back to Monkey lake. Although it had been less than a week since I had left, the lake was getting busier, although I was latter to find out that this was because it was an extended French holiday. My favourite area was still free but I wanted to try another area I fancied about 400 metres away, in a quiet corner of the lake, which given the numbers of anglers now fishing seemed like a good bet.

 

Next came the interesting part, now given I wasn’t fishing that far from my original spot, fishing similar a similar type lake bed and depth then I was still expecting large numbers of crayfish. I therefore began with the same set up that I had finished with ie 25mm Monster Pursuit/ Mutant snowman rig. This isn’t the most subtle of rigs but atleast you get a chance against the crayfish, as before I spread about 5kg of Monster Pursuit boilies and halibut pellets along the margins. I saw a couple of carp crash over the 10m spot first evening and so was feeling confident, but the first night produced no action. Given the crayfish problem I was keen to see how prolific they were down this end of the lake and so checked the rods next morning. I was very surprised to see that none of the baits had any indication of crayfish activity, this was strange. Given the evidence I changed two of the baited rods to 20mm baits and a normal airball pop ups much more refined. This produced action straight away with a string of 30’s but only in shallow water, no more than 2 metres, I kept one rod in the deeper 10 metre water just in case a biggie came along. There is a good lesson here in that no matter how well you think you now a lake it will always throw up a surprise and you need to react to this, try something different and the results may surprise you.

 

By now the weather had switched and it was becoming a real heatwave, and the first time ever on the lake I was able to watch the carp swimming along the margins and basking in the odd weed bed. I had never seen them before like this as the carp tended to stay deeper and it was a real eye opener. A steady stream of bait along the margins meant I was able to catch atleast one fish a day but none of the bigger fish. The main reason appeared to be the total absence of crayfish in this area as none of the baits throughout the session was ever touched. Why was this, I had no idea as my favourite spot just along the I knew would be crawling with crayfish if I went up there. They were so prolific up there I trapped them everyday for lunch, just makes you think about how the make up of a lake can alter your fishing and tactics so much.

 

After 10 days I was ready for a change and decided I had left the Lot alone for long enough, time to get on there….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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