Belgian angler Wesley Mast has been in touch with news of another lovely old mirror from a local venue. Well done Wes!
Bullhead – a real bruiser of a carp!
‘Two more weeks and the closed season in Belgium comes to an end and by that time this carp angler will be found at the banks of a few intimate public lakes and (hopefully) the videofootage for Carp Movement #3 will be ready.
But for now it’s back to that sweet little venue were I had that lovely near 40 leather on my first trip down there. All the gear was in the van the day before so without much delay I left home on that particular sunday morning around 8am and twenty minutes later I arrived at the carpark.
With no other anglers at the lake I opted for swim 10 on ‘the short side’, a mild wind was blowing in and I saw some decent fish cruising around in the margins of a corner next to my chosen swim.
The right hand rod went to that corner on the marginal shelf and with spawning in the back of my mind a short hooklink was needed so I went for the most natural presentation and tied a short snowman rig of 20lb ESP Camo Sink Link, a bit of ESP tungsten putty for keeping it all low to the ground and a D-7 (sz6) was used for that all important hold.
I flicked the left hand rod in front of my swim on a hard plateau I had found on the previous trip, a subtle Multi rig made from 20lb ESP Two-Tone, ESP Tungsten putty, sz5 Stiff Rigger and a 16mm Monstercrab popup from New Bait Designs landed with a firm ‘donk’ on the edge. A few Natural Squid freebies were scattered around both rods.
The waiting game…, we all know it so well.
Nothing happened all day, not one show to tell me where they were, even that corner turned into No Carp Bay.
The hours flew by and by the time I realised it was almost time to pack up and go home so I loaded all the gear back onto the barrow and with only my two rods in position it happened!
One of the rods melted off and after a heavy battle under the rod tip I landed yet another one from the A-Team. Bullhead, a very old and sought after fish from that little place. It went 39lb 15oz! Job done!’