Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Lymmvale - April 24th

Second visit to Lymmvale, the weather promised to be dry after a couple of weeks of showery days so my hopes were high.

I overslept again, eventually leaving at 7.00, on arriving there was one other guy fishing opposite the Sandbank so I opted for a swim nearer the corner, seeing plenty of fish topping.

Set up two (1.5 & 1.25 t/c) rods, one on the maggot feeder the other on a method feeder. On the maggot feeder I switched between fake maggots and casters as hook bait, on the other rod I used a method mix of green supercrush and carp method mix groundbaits moulded to a fin type feeder with baits of sweetcorn or pop up boilies.

In my haste to get going, after sleeping in, I managed to forget to bring my bite alarms, bobbins and butt rests so made some up from bit of catapult elastic.

Female Tench - 4lb 4oz
I had no bites on either rod, but was having a lot of problems with weed on my rigs, which was rather frustrating. Every time I thought that I had found a clear spot I landed in more weed!!!

John Stubbs, the bailiff, came round and had a chat, giving me some ideas on how to tackle Lymmvale, he also gave me a copy of the depth map of the water.

He advised that I was fishing too far out and was on a shallower area which was why I  was having trouble with the weed. Apart from that it seemed that I was generally on the right track so after he had left I put out a method feeder with a pop up yellow boilie, this eventually led to my only bite and fish of the day, a Tench of 4-04.

I packed up at 14.30, at least my Lymmvale duck has been broken.

Thornhills Pool - April 20th

Had a quick visit to Thornhills today, primarily to try out some new white Bandums.

It was a very windy and wet day and I had a real battle with my umbrella when the wind picked up!

I fished the same peg as my last visit. I used my GTec feeder rod, 6lb main line with an elasticated banjo feeder loaded with flavoured micro pellets fished close to the tip of the island.

Typical Thornhills Mirror Carp
I fished for three hours and had 7 carp to 5lbs, on white Bandums and yellow pop up boilies.

There was only other person fishing and he blanked, but was probably highly amused at my inability to set up my brollie properly and watching it nearly get blown in.

Not a bad session, however I will probably not be back for a while, time to branch out elsewhere.

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Lymmvale - April 18th


Finally made it to Lymmvale, home of big tench in Cheshire.

Approach to Lymmvale, a brighter day!!!
Problem was that it was a beast of a day, I slept in past my alarm and frankly I should have stayed in bed!!
At the Gates........on a brighter day!!!

It started raining as I was driving through Northwich at 7.30am and didn't stop until about 11.00am and along with an east/north east wind it was very chilly.

I started in a swim on the west bank, unfortunately the peg I wanted to fish was occupied, so I tucked in 20m nearer the car park in the most sheltered spot I could find.

Two rods both on the buzzer was the name of the game. 1.25 & 1.5T/C rods loaded with 8lb Sensor mainline.

Fished the maggot feeder helicopter style with either caster or red maggots on the hook at about 40m on one and an inline lead with corn on the hook at about 20m.

Bottom line no bites, one liner on the maggot feeder and that was it. 5 others on the lake and no one caught anything whilst I was there, did not see any bubbles or fish topping. The cold easterly wind did not help and the recent cold nights have lowered the water temp, hopefully it will pick up in the next few weeks.
 
View across to the sandbank

I probably should have fished the opposite bank with the wind behind me, away from the cold wind.

Ho hum! but I'll be back!!







Friday, 13 April 2012

Thornhills Pool - 12th April

Decided at the last minute to pop over to Thornhills for a few hours between the showers.

When I arrived there were four others fishing all on the spit of land, one on the end facing the peg I wanted to fish, none doing much though.

Decided on a peg on the LHS, tried a banjo feeder for the first time fished close to the island and planned a second line for the pole in the margins on the corner which never got used.

View towards Heron peg....I fished to the left of the Heron
Set up GTec 12' feeder rod, 6lb Sensor line, banjo feeder and started with hair rigged corn, feed pellets were flavoured with Marukyu liquid and ground bait.

1st cast and the tip wraps round after a couple of minutes, a smallish carp on, but unfortunately no landing net, which I had forgotten along with any rod rests!

I managed to land the fish by hand and a second that quickly followed.

Fortunately I was able to borrow a small net from another angler, Barrie Roberts, and carried on. The first three carp were on corn then I switched to a small white pop up boilie which accounted for a further 7 carp.

Managed a total of 10 carp to 7lb, and was napped up twice. Some nice mirrors all in very good condition.

All in all a good little session.