Day on Carriage Drive

Having never fished Carriage for 2-3 years as I've only just got a Pilks permit again I decided to go fishing on Thursday. I got there for about 10am and had a quick walk round to see where to fish, I decided quite quickly on the 3rd peg to the Left as you walk into Carriage which is a peg that has been dug out the bank and is around 2-3 feet lower than the walkway behind I picked this peg for two reasons, Firstly there was a warm wind blowing towards that bank and there was a good chance the fish would follow, Secondly the peg gave me 3 lines to fish, an 8 meter line on the edge of the overhanging tree to my left and two short lines a 3 meter line also to the left about 2-3 feet out and a 2 meter line to my right 2 feet from the bank next to some reeds, Thirdly and MOST importantly because this was my second time pole fishing and as yet I haven't bought a pole roller at the moment the bank behind was perfect to lay my holdall down on and used to ship my pole back on Jobs a Good'un

For bait I had some micro pellets that came in the Fox Match box I had bought second hand I threw a few in at the side to make sure they all sank and they did thank God and I had taken along some maggots that 95% of them had turned to casters since fishing the Paddock a few days before. Also some Dynamite baits pineapple hooker pellets and some good old Sweetcorn.

I plumbed the 8 meter line which was about 3-4 feet and the two short line were quite shallow at 1.5-2 feet deep I fed all the lines from the start with a mixture of micro pellets and some hooker pellets and a couple of grains of corn and fished hooker pellet on the hook. I started off fishing the 8 meter line which was slow apart from a couple of liners I fished this for about 30 mins and noticed swirling on my short 3 meter line to my left and very close in under my feet where I had threw some tester pellets in earlier and I could a couple of tench tails fins just below the surface and they were having a feast on the pellets so I fed the 3 meter line and decided to change to corn on the hook after a few liners and a missed bite I struck into a 3lb Tench that fought quite well but was quickly subdued as I have a Power top kit with a Prestons 17h elastic and Prestons Reflo Xceed 0.205mm (7.7lb) Mainline with a Prestons Pre-Tied Size 14 Carp Hook to a 5lb hooklength so not much is gonna get away or so I thought .

After that bite I tried the same line again but as it was so shallow anything else had spooked off so I went to the 8 meter again but constantly fed the short lines. After a couple of Roach on the 8 meter I again moved back in close and fished the 2 meter line to my right again on corn and within 5 mins the float slipped away and I was into a quite hard fighting 6-7lb Common Carp.

After that the all the lines went quiet so I moved onto maggot on the hook and bagged a couple of small perch and some nice roach on the 8 meter line. I then moved back to the 3 meter left line and after about 15 mins hit into a BIG fish that steamed off straight towards where I was fishing my 8 meter line and then TWANG!! the elastic sprung back and on closer inspection the line had given way on the knot round the hook I was gutted the bow waves from the fish steaming off where huge so I guess it was a good double.

I changed the hook link straight away and was back fishing after about 30 mins the float on the 3 meter line bobbed then slowly slipped away I struck into nothing and again some nice bow waves as the fished moved off out the swim this must of been a liner and had took the float completely under. So again fished this line for another 20 mins then the float shot under a steady strike saw a good fight the net was slipped under a nice Common just on or under a double a lovely looking fish absolutley spotless. I fished again for a couple of hours with no success I changed my depth and fished very shallow on the 2 meter line on the left and after some steady little and often feeding the float dipped under and I was into another Common of around 7-8lb another hard fighting fish the put up a very spirited fight I returned the fish to the water and decided to call it a day and pack up and went home very happy with the days events and looking forward to getting back on there as soon as i can.

Thanks for reading and Tight Lines.

CarbonPoleCarper

realy enjoyed that read paul its the kind of posts the sight has been missing thanks for sharing your day fishing with us and i look forward to your next report thanks again!