No more school, ever!
I'm glad to announce that over this summer you'll be seeing a lot more blogs and videos coming your way from both KCK and KCG, simply as we now have a lot more spare time on our hands, which will be used beneficially to go fishing and do other fishing related things!
Things I've got planned for this summer include: a night after eels and wild carp, a 3 day session on Old Speci, a 3 day session on House, and finally the YouTube bloggers match! I have to say I'm really excited for all this, and I would do more but I've got lots of other commitments over the summer - come September you'll be seeing regular videos again.
The following section is a report of a session fished recently at Wylands, the video for which can be found here.
On Friday the 21st of June, Merlin and I packed our gear and set off for Wylands early in the morning. Our lake of choice was Old Speci - a bit of a change from New Speci as we just wanted to have a day of catching a few fish rather than sitting motionless behind our alarms waiting and hoping for a big carp. The other reason was that New Speci usually gets rather busy at this time of year, and that turned out to be true, with more anglers on the lake than we would have liked, so we felt our choice had been vindicated.
I quickly set up in a swim I've fished before that gave some good results, and I didn't have to wait long before I was playing the first fish of the day which turned out to be a small common of around 4lb, taken on a new Liquid Baits boilie called Mexican Honey - a lovely sweet smell of honey that no fish could resist! Soon after that, I landed another small common, this time on a Salami boilie. This was great news as it continues to show the fish really do go for the Liquid Baits flavours, and I have the utmost confidence in them.
The rig I used was just an extremely simple hair rig, made of Korda N-trap 15lb, a Korda Kaptor Kurv size 8 hook and a normal swivel. The following picture shows this set up:
It was finished off with a Korum lead clip to enhance fish safety in case of a break and a 2oz flat pear lead from the Leadshed. They make great quality leads at a ridiculously low price and I highly recommend them!
We'd also popped down to Rosie's and the Snake a few weeks ago for a bit of surface fishing, but I didn't make a video as I only had two fish, but it was a fun session, walking around barefoot to get closer to the fish on Rosie's as it's a really shallow lake. I think the fish were in the middle of spawning, which would explain the lack of interest shown, but it was a really sunny say so just being outside in that glorious sun made it worthwhile!
The rest of the day on Old Speci continued with more fish coming in, the biggest of the lot around 8lb, so nothing spectacular but all were welcome additions to my total, which reached 12 by the end of the day!
So, to sum it all up, I had a very pleasant session, and I look forward to a summer filled with fish and other enjoyable things. Look otu for more videos coming your way from both me and KCK, and more blogs, exclusively here at KCGD!
