DAY TICKET UPDATE, MAY 2011

The lake had a good start once it thawed out as I've already reported and had been fishing well since although it has turned a bit moody, possibly because they are trying to spawn. They have actually had a few half hearted go's but the weather keeps on dropping cold. There was even a mild ground frost this week but we are promised some warmer weather again, that's if we can trust the weather men. Lee at work has got the best idea, he scans all the different forecasts and picks the one he likes!.

Any way, there has been quiet a few fish out lately including a 35 mirror, which is the smaller of the 2 mid 30's. The big un still hasn't been out. There is a lot of 20's coming out, I've had 5 fish including a 22, and the others have all been 18 and 19's. One of the young lads from work has been on the lake twice, bagging 4 fish to 22 the first session and 6 fish the next session including a 13, 18, 2 x 19's and 3 x 20's. Ben usually writes a session report for the Nash web site after each session so I've included his report and his pics from his first session below. As you can see from Bens report it pays to change things about a bit during any session. There has been a lot of days where just chucking out into the deep water with bottom baits is really slow but fishing zigs, the extreme margins and casting to different area's has caught a lot of fish. Ben had most of his fish on his last session using a lot more bait than usually gets used at the lake, maize, particles, pellet and boilies with little 10mm baits topped with maize doing the bussiness. Read on and see just how keen he is.

Good luck in your fishing

Gary

Hi Gary,

I arrived at Bayeswater fishing just as it was getting dark so I quickly loaded my barrow and found a swim in the shallow side off the lake as no one else was fishing this part of water, I also thought the fish would be in there in the day due to the hot weather. By the time I was set up it was pretty dark so I quickly spotted a few features and cast my rods to them before it got much darker, I also baited these spots along with a few others. During that night I caught a tench. I was up early the next day to bait the areas probably, after that the day fished hard with the hot weather and not many fish coming into the shallows as I had planned, although I managed to catch another welcoming tench and small carp. The rods went out for the night feeling more confident this time. I was woken up the next morning by a screaming bite alarm and a 14lb common, caught on a single scopex squid boilie pellet using a size 10 hook and fished along with pva bags of crushed scopex squid boilies. It was also fished over a bed off scopex squid boilies which I had been baiting since I'd been there, fishing it a couple of foot off a sticking out set off reeds.

As it started to get hotter during the day I noticed fish cruising on the other side of the lake in the open water. I considered the move round, but I noticed fish were coming into the shallows so I decided to stay. I stuck out a zig, fishing about half a foot under the surface, fishing a brown piece of foam. The decision paid off when I struck into another fish and landed another 14lb common. During the day I carried on baiting the same spots for the night and as the temperature dropped fish started to roll which was promising so I put my bottom baits back out and also changed one off the rigs, to the one that had, had all the runs, (simple blow back rig with size 10 hook using a small scopex squid boilie pellet as bait.) My bite alarm screamed off about an hour later and I struck into a lump unfortunately it was lost at the net, gutting! Later on that night the same rod woke me up but this time I managed to land a stocky 19lb mirror. Early on that morning I was woke up again but this time the other rod was screaming off, it was the rod which I had changed the rig , the rig change had paid off with a stunning 22lb mirror and great end to a tricky session.

Cheers Ben