long a walk from the car park to the lake and decided to give it a miss. I promised myself a return visit but never thought it'd be with a pole, seatbox and associated kit. Driving into the same car park today I had the same thought but was accompanied this time by Sherpa Rob, so it was game on.
Well kind of, we left the gear in the car and went for the walk, got to the lakes, had a chat with the
lad who runs the place and he told us how to get to a better closer car park and this we duly did.
On a day when Spring really was in the air, we thought we might have a go for the resident carp.
So out with the Carp pole, a newly acquired Maver Abyss fitted with no14 Maver Latex. We had picked up two of these at the recent Angling Expo so it was really a case of any chance to try one of them out. The rig was a Preston White 4 x 12 float, Mainline and hooklength were both Preston Reflo Powerline at, 17 & 13mm. and hook a size 14 Preston PR21.
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| Go on then, go beep !!! |
Yeah the Expo, enjoyed my day out there. Met so many people, seemed I spent most of the day saying hello, hows things, you been fishing? Great to see so many good friends. The show itself seemed short on anything different, very much same old, same old. One good thing that happened at the Expo, was Rob filling in a ticket for a free draw. If he was lucky enough , first prize was a years membership in guess where !!
Yep, Corkagh Park and that was another reason why we were there today, jammy little git only went and won it. He thinks it's great but I have to spend 20 euro for a day ticket any time he wants to go on his free ticket !!!!!!!! HHHHmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I wasn't fishing so we were all sorted and set up in record quick time, the suns up, nice SW wind blowing, we've got all sorts of pellets, paste, corn and mags, can't fail.
Plumbed up at 9.5 mtrs and theres a decent depth of about 4 feet, closer in just on the edge of the reeds
was about 2 feet and those were the two lines to be attacked.
I'll not bore with the details of trying every hook bait, combination of hookbait, up in the water, over depth,
dead bottom but suffice to say the resident carp just weren't interested.
Spring was in the air today but thats it, it's only spring and very early into it too. Actually way to early......
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| Lovely Spring Day.... |
It's a pleasant enough place that spot, swims are all well spaced out and very well built wooden
platforms. A lot of passers by and air traffic to and from Baldonnel mean it's not a spot for peacefull fishing.
In saying that I reckon we'll have a few more days out there over the year but when the weather
gets better, eh ?????
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