After a long lay off, Daren ‘Tinpot’ Norman had a great start to the New Year recently, catching crackers from a couple of different venues:
‘After not fishing for 7 weeks a really mild and windy weather front came in and I had to get out for a night’s fishing. Fishing over 2kg of sticky baits boilies on test ,hemp and corn it paid off and I had this lovely scaley 27 lb 8oz mirror to start the year off nicely.
Lovely dark 27lb 8oz scaley
A week later I had a social planned with a couple of mates on par lakes and fishing over the same mix of bait got very lucky catching one of the biggest fish in the lake along with a small common on my first night ever on the pond in freezing conditions . The hard fighting carp called “tutti” weighed 35lb 10oz and makes it the best start to a year I’ve probably had.
‘Tutti’ at 35lb 10oz
All the fish were caught using 15lb Syncro XT, ESP tubing and lead clips and simple short rigs using 25lb prototype tungsten hooklengths to size 5 stiff riggers .