Trying something different with SSRR

Trying something different with SSRR

06/06/2010

The next day was so hot which didn’t produce one bleep but the next morning produced a low double common of around 14lb I would say the new tactic worked instead of using the throwing stick as I would usually use. On the 3rd day it was seriously hot again in the day so I brought the rods in for the day to rest the swim but I decided to have a look at some snags at the very first swim on the lake with lovely reeds and snags to the left with lots of fish moving in the reeds and lots topping the surface. I packed up and moved round to the swim because it just felt right in that swim. I turned up to the swim at around 3 o’clock in the day and I sat there for about an hour watching the fish on the surface and worked out that there pattern was coming out from the edge of the reeds and going straight out and turning into the bank and swimming around 5 ft off some reeds to the right and then got the marker out and flicked it down to my right at around 10 yards off some reeds to see if I could find any features which I did. I found a little 1/2 foot plato about 5 ft off the reeds and it was 4 1/2 foot deep so I thought that I bet no one puts a rod on her so this is a great little spot. I decided to put a few spods accurately on to the plato with the spod filled up with scopex squid and robin red and made a 6 inch coated hooklink with a size 8 fox armo point with a scopex squid and robin red and just a normal knotless knot coming off the back of the hook. I placed my left hand rod to the obvious place where all the fish were in the reeds where they were all moving so I catapulted around 7 pouch full’s of boilies at around 20 yards out to spook the fish off with bait not the lead and about 1ft off the reeds so I had half a chance of landing one. I paced both rods out and marked them up so if I had anything in the night I could just plonk right on top of the spots with no fuss and no disturbance. When it was around 9 00 pm I had a upper double on my right hand rod which was only 10 yards out so I was even more confident.

I then received a violent take on my right hand rod at around 10 00 pm but when I hit it nothing was on so I thought that was strange but nether less its good confidence so I paced it out to my pegs and put it right back on the spot lined up with the tree line in the far distance I then put a few spods over it again. At around 3 00 am I had a few liners and then at 4 30 am I had a massive drop back and it screamed off and when I got there in a second it had already travelled around 25yards to some trees down to my left but I managed to get him out then he screamed off and took around 40 yards off line and I new this was a good fish cause it felt heavy and then it kited right and thought I’m going to lose but it came back the other way and it just gave up as it came to the surface at around 30 yards. I pulled it back across the surface and took around 40 seconds to do so even with 3lb test curve rods. I then got it in the net and it looked like a high twenty because it was about 3 1/2 ft long. I got the fish onto the mat and thought yep that’s heavy so put it into the sling got the scales and it went to 22lb 8oz which was surprising because I thought it was a bit bigger than that but it’s still a cracking fish and what a way to end the session.  
                                          

 All the best Kirin Asher :-)