G'Town

After a couple of poor days where we'd seen as much action as your average Bohs fan does in a season
Team Kavo were on the road and heading for G'Town. Accompanied, eventually, by a friend from FTI
we arrived on a wet morning, armed to the teeth with various pellets, pastes etc to see if we could tempt

Paul, playing a good'un

a few suicidal carp.
Rob's big day with the Leinster team is fast approaching so a few days fishing the venue that is to be used for the Inter Provincial made sense. We do very little fishing on commercials so today was to be about catching first and foremost, recent trips out hadn't helped in that regard so getting him used to playing carp was the main aim. Getting elastics sorted and trying out a couple of new bits of kit was next.
Our three main aims were sorted, we caught fish, Rob got the feel of his new "carp" pole and I had some success on an adapted 4m whip. Most fish are caught close in so I adapted a 4m whip by removing the tip, adding elastic and a very useful bit of kit it is.

Still at it.......

 

Anyone got a spare landing net handle !!!

All 3 of us elected to fish a couple of margin swims and a line out in front. Myslef and Paul fished at about
7m, Rob chose to go out to 11m to see what his new pole felt like and he had most of his fish at that

length, using banded pellet.

Go Team Leinster

The fishing wasn't easy with a lot of fish cruising around the surface, tempting them to really get their heads down was tough going. It's been a tough start to the Sumer all round I think, with the bad bad weather playing it's part. It's still blummin cold and as you can see in the photos, it's Mid Summers day and we're all wearing winter clothing. It chucked it down a few times during the day, are we getting a Summer this year ?
We threw everything we had at them, hard and soft pellets in various sizes and flavours, banded, hair rigged, hooked. Pastes in different colours, consistency and flavours.
In the end most fish were taken on good old sweetcorn in the margins, goes to show for all the latest
"guaranteed" fish catching baits, a tin of corn still has it's day.

We packed up in the rain, with Rob claiming victory, 26 fish to my 21, an estimated 20lb to 15lb,
well he is "on the Leinster Team" afterall............................