Sean Leverett has been hard at it this year setting up his bait company ‘Proper Carp Baits’, so time on the bank has been at a premium. Thsi weekend though he managed to sneak out and had a ‘proper’ result. Here’s Sean’s account:
‘With work at the bait factory being so busy, my time on the bank this year has been somewhat limited and i think i’ve done just 15 nights in total all year.
This weekend though I managed to get a free one and with that headed off to Bayeswater Syndicate lake for a couple of days.
The lake has suffered quite badly of late with an algae bloom but the last week or so the water has improved massively and the fish have started showing more and look a lot more active.
As I’d managed a quick night earlier in the week in order to get a bit of bait in I dropped back in to it for the weekend and with that fished a couple of rods short (just yards off the bank) and a couple on a plateau at 40 yards.
After a night of no action I decided to move one of the rods off the plateau and just have the one on it as I’d seen fish show on it but not had a bite and was concerned the two rods were not helping me.
Well a little before midnight on the Saturday night the lone rod on the plateau signaled a slow twitchy bite which at first I thought was a tench. However, when it took off on a 40 yard run I soon realized it was no tench!
Twenty five minutes and several failed attempts at netting (as it kept going on last minute runs) I eventually managed to net the fish and on looking in the net soon realized what I had.. It was a fish known as Buggy’s Fish and was one of the main A-Team of the lake.
At a weight of 44lb 10oz I was made up to say the least! The fish was well behaved for the pictures and after a little rest in the net to recover from the scrap he was soon back off into the lake none the worse for wear.
The winning set up was a multi rig tied up using the new ESP Tungsten coated hook link material (watch this space – its coming) with one of the size 5 prototype Mk3 Stiff Riggers. The hook link was fished on an ejector lead clip with a 3.5oz lead and the Flexi Anchor Tube. Main line was the 18lb Syncro Loaded.
Bait wise i was fishing one of our (Proper Carp Baits) new Pineapple & N-Butyric Acid pop-ups over a 1 kilo bed of whole and broken 15mm Red Seal boilies’.