New Hay nr Howden

[jools]

hopefully off to New Hay nr Howden my local village for my first spot of fishing this year (i would have thought many of you carp fanatics may have fished the specimen lake there).Tuesday or wednesday ill take some snaps whilst there and pop them on if anyones interested the larger of the two ponds to pleasure fish day ticket has carp to approx 18lb some big barbel wow they dont half go caught on pole lol.........

[paul p]

Good luck, 18lb is a big fish.

[jools]

biggest i have had on a pole is 12lb and that took me ages to get in,that was at another pond just as i was about to pack in for the day bang typical heavens opened lightning and im stuck with a big carp on with me pole in air ..........my name was mud all the guys wanted to get off home but they had to wait for me lol...........

[paul p]

12lb is still a great size fish jools. Cant wait to wet a line myself, wont be long. Tight lines. Paul

[blackwater]

tightlines, i still havent had a fish in 2010!

BW

[jools]

ill take pics of the next session....will be interesting for sure who knows what we land there.......

[jools]

change of plan we swopped venues and went to fish the small pond which we attempted when the big freeze was on
North Cave Howden
well pleasantly surprised it was a cold start started on the pole size 20 hook a light elastic no 8.. with a 2lb bottom first chuck small roach and skimmers regularly but kept pulling out of the bigger fish so i upgraded to an 18 hook with a lighter elastic i switched from maggot to 4 mm pellet and bang the bigger bream moved in feeding with toss pot a few pellets topped with some green swimstim groundbait (just a pinch at a time) did the trick lovley.......caught steadilly all day long although the carp were not showing up today ........... worth another visit when it warms up for sure
jools

[pingu]

well done there

dave

[Greenheart]

Nice one Jools. Good to see the fish are starting to feed again....