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.