39 Carp to 26lb 9oz on Oily Crab
22/06/2009
Introduction
The day started well the weather was warm pushing 20 degrees. We took a walk around the car park lake on the Fryerning fisheries complex. The wind was blowing into the far end of the lake where the non-fishing bank is. We both decided to fish at the front of the wind because we believed that the fish were following the current created by the wind, as we walked back to get the gear out we saw 3 fish crash out at the far margin.
Rigs And Casting
I decided to use a lead clip system on the right hand rod basically because I was fishing tight to the reed bed, on this rod I had a multi rig ties on with a oily crab pop up of about 15mm popped up about half an inch off the lake bed with a small pva bag of 2.5-4.5mm pellets this rod was fished as tight to the reeds as I could get it. As for the left hand rod I had a short hooklink tied with korda IQ and a size 8 korda kurv shank with a 15mm oily crab bottom bait with some crushed boilies and pellet in a pva bag, and this rod was fished to the far margin roughly about a rod length off the shrub I was aiming at.
Bait
The bait was oily crab and was fresh and also nice and soft just how I like boilies. I don’t really use that much freebies in this water because it tends to spook the fish so I just use small pva bags on each cast and catapult 5-10 boilies out every so often if the carp are there.
Results
The results were good for a 48 hour session as we had banked 8 fish in the first couple of hours which we had been set-up, during the 48 hours we were there we had 39 fish which were:
.4x20s to 26lb 9oz
.13 upper doubles to just below 18lbs
.12 lower doubles to 13lb
.10 small stockies below 10lb but great looking fish.
What I call a good session thank you ocean fresh.
Sam Davey and Matt Crouch