Fish at last!
Alright one and all
At last a fish!!!
After a few weeks of being busy and struggling to catch when I do go, I finally found some fish willing to play. An early start to day at 4.30 and me and me mate Pete were on the road and heading for the lake. The customary sausage roll and pork pie was devoured en route and the discussion came round to swim choice, we decided to do the right thing and walk arounf=d the lake looking for signs of fish.
The long and short of it is we ended up in the swim we'd decided on in the car...loads of snags and trees and loads of fish.
We tucked ourselves up in a couple of quiet shady pegs and cast our baits out to the edge of the tree line on the opposite bank. Within an hour I landed a 15lb 5oz mirror carp on 2 bollies as bait, surrounded by trout pellet. The fish fought like a train and made a great start to the day.
15.5lb
An hour later my rod shot off again...and with Pete still yet to catch I enjoyed milking this fish..a common this time but slightly bigger at 16lb 5oz. Again fought really well and again on the same bait...the day was hotting up.!
16.5lb
Quite soon afetr Pete had a screaming run, an unmissable one...that he somehow missed...gutted! Almost immediately after he had another run and landed a small common of about 2lb. The day went quiet for a bit, the sun was out and all the fish were on the surface...uninterested. As the day progressed Pete had another smaller fish and I banked a 5lber and an 8lber. But overall it was fairly quiet. I tried fishing in close with maggots and a light line for smaller carp, but one of the bigger fish picked up the bait and shot off around the lake with me in tow....for abit!!
8lb
As the day cooled off we had a 45 minute period where it went mad, we landed 2 fish each, of which Pete's were 10.8lb and an 11.8lb common
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11.8lb
Mine were slighlty smaller with an 8lb common and a 10.8lb common.
10.8lb
We then got really excieted as we thought we were goning to catch one of the bigger fish in the lake as they were crashing everywhere and it felt like they were gonna have a real feed, especially as it was a lush evening!
But alas afetr about 7 o clock, no more fish were caught. However a great day was had with a total of 11 fish caught, 5 of which were over 10lb. Not long to go now and hopefully I will have some Aussie fish!!
Rog
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Matt T
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Mate...
You're gonna love WA.
Faulkner Family
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well done
some aussie fish that you can actually eat
,you might even get some of your summer weather over here in the middle of winter
, fishing is all about fun and if you get a feed its a bonus
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deepwater
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well done Roger
well done mate good to c soon else has got there mojo back good fishing
jeff
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its been a while
its been a while fella...hopefully the purple patch will last till oz!!
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sherbert
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That a good report
Good to see you are in to fish again
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till
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Those poor goldfish =(
Those poor goldfish =(
damo6230
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if you catch carp here in Aussie
by law you must not return it to the water
make great vegie fertiliser
But I must confess I to targeted Carp as a young bloke many years ago.......
good report roger though and yeh wait for the west coast fishing
Colin Hay
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Top report and pictures Roger
It certainly is a lot different to the type of fishing you will be doing here.
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jus
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whereabouts in england was
whereabouts in england was this? i used to love carp fishing with all the bite alarms and what not...never got that many decent carp in one day though!
but if you think carp fight like trains, wait till you hook onto a decent tuna or sambo!!
Roger Knife
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south england mate, aplace
south england mate, aplace called crediton near exeter. Creedy lakes. Heres the link.
http://www.creedylakes.com/
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7739ian
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Good report Roger
if you ever get to N.S.W. i can put you in contact with my brother. He lives on a rural property near Penrith where they drain the dams once a year and remove the carp with a front end loader - they end up as fertiliser.
till
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A mate from Sale said they
A mate from Sale said they used to hunt them with a pitchfork =)
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cheaper than bait!!LOL
cheaper than bait!!LOL
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mitch101
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Good job
Hey good job some nice pics there!
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The Nowra Sportfishing
Club used to have a carp comp at Wee Jasper near Yass on one of the arms of Burrinjuck dam and we used to catch 5kg fish regularly on 1kg line , on a days fishing best I personally saw from about 20 people was around 200 carp , true story !!! Was good fun but maybe I was counting one fish as 3 after half a cask of port LOL , twas a bit cool usually
Just one more cast , honest !!!