Southlake Success

Rob and I have been fishing Southlake for two seasons now, using various different baits and various different rigs and up until this Summer we had very little success, however hearing of Ocean Fresh through the ‘grapevine’ led us to some very welcome action!

I invested in some OCEAN FRESH Red Shrimp & Garlic 15mm boilies, I just have a thing for red baits having had a few decent results on other waters, I opted to fish with ‘Flouro Carbon choddies’ which consists of a 3 foot flourcarbon leader and 1 1/2inch curved hook link attached by a swivel and secured by two 4mm rubber beads, which is a rig unashamedly copied from a well know Carp Tackle Company TV programme!!I set up in the bay and cast the rigs to about 50yds range with a nice bright pop-up tied to each and over the top of each spot went thirty 15mm RSG boilies – whether it was the new approach I was using I don’t know but I was just felt very confident, it was just one of those sessions that you think you are going to do well?

To say I was pleased is a massive understatement!!!! The best part of this capture was that my Mrs and little boy had just turned up to say hello, when I had the run! My little boy now expects me to catch a fish every time he comes around to see me!!! I wish!

Rob on the other hand had switched to OCEAN FRESH GLM a move that was to prove very successful! He chose to fish towards the bottom of the lake near the ‘Armchair’ swim.

Knowing that he was going to fish the following Friday night he set out to bait the chosen spots each morning leading up to the session.  Arriving at the lake each morning at 7am he put out ½ kilo of GLM out over both spots before clearing off to work. Friday arrived and he duly set up in the chosen swim, both rods were set up with 8inch Korda Hybrid soft hook links and snowman style arrangement on each, a 18mm GLM bottom bait and 15mm GLM pop-up with a shot placed on the hair below the baits to balance the rig in such a way that it sits upright just off the bottom of the lake, he checked the buoyancy of the rig in the margins, happy with the presentation he cast out onto the baited areas – again this was a method that we had heard other Anglers had good results on – you can not emphasise enough  finding out what works for other people! Information like this can and did prove invaluable.

Onto the scales and it went 32lb, a fantastic fish in anyone’s book a 30lb Common Carp is something that most Carp Anglers wait a very long time for and Rob managed it after careful application of bait and rig in a relatively short period of time.

Hopefully this will be the first of many articles on Ocean Fresh success!!!

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