Bank Holiday Monday

[toma]

After a kind invite by Robbo to join him fishing today i jumped at the chance.
We went to Meadow Waters, this time without my mate Daz,


We arrived at Meadow Waters at around 8.40am. We went down to the second lake, buster, the pegs we usually fish were taken by carp anglers, so we decided to fish the first lake. Three carp anglers had taken the whole bankside up, they even blocked the road down to the pegs with their vehicles, not very sporting i thought, but what the hell
The weather was sunny to start with, but as the day progressed we had a few rain showers, and the wind picked up, not very pleasant with it blowing straight at us
My peg



Baits today were, bronze and red maggots for me, Robbo had bronze maggot and caster. I used a light colored groundbait, which in hindsight was a big mistake, i did not have a bite in over three hours, So i decided to mix a darker groundgbait. After a few casts i had landed a skimmer. I went on to manage one bream, three skimmers and two roach. I was pleased with the outcome of changing groundbaits.
I fished towards the island.

All during the day fish were jumping and splashing about in front of me, but they flatly refused to take my bait offerings

Top rod today went to Robbo, Well done mate, Robbo bagged some good bream and skimmers,
I was amazed to see Robbo's groundbait, he told me it was an old mixture from his last outing that he had frozen, LoL, dead maggots, very dark colored casters, and sweet corn, the old addage about the fancy groundbait was blew away with that today, Robbo was getting a bite a cast.
Here he is in action



And the fish that followed

A bream that was ready, or had just spawned



Another action shot of Robbo



As the day progressed it got colder and windier, at one point we had !!!!!

Blazing SUNSHINE, RAIN and WIND together, It was decided to call it a day at around 3pm, Here's Robbo's bag of the day



Robbo spotted something in the water, it looked like something was "floating" or rather being towed in the water. It looked like a top section of someones pole that a fish had pulled off
The sorry sight of the day was this, the red arrow points to the pole section

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Another enjoyable day at Meadow Waters.

Thanks Robbo your a star mate

[tat]

If they had deliberately blocked the path,accidentally catching their vehicle with your tackle box as you HAD to squeeze past would have occured to me.I hate that.They don't own the water,do they.tho' that type might not in the majority,it tars the sensible ones with that brush.

[toma]

I wont say that all carp anglers are the same, its the same in all aspects of our sport, get some proper numptys.

Three anglers taking 6 pegs, ! the owner said bugger all so why should i ?? or anyone else come to that.
One of them even had his "white van" behind his "peg"

This is the first time i have come across carpers like these chaps on this water,

[tat]

Being cynical,if you looked in his "white van" there might have been bins full of water too.A pond near me was allegedly done like that,but it could'nt be proved.

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Cracking read / info and pics mate - thanks

[toma]

Originally Posted by tat

Being cynical,if you looked in his "white van" there might have been bins full of water too.A pond near me was allegedly done like that,but it could'nt be proved.

Oh i did mate, i had a good look inside, full of tools etc, Thanks for the replies lads

[pingu]

looks a good session there well done

[perch_king]

good session mate well done and nice pics in the net

[aka bream king]

well done mate nice net of fish u got there and good pics good luke next time

[toma]

Thanks lads