Jo Green’s effort of moving during the night to get on showing fish was well rewarded with this cracking common. Here’s Jo’s account:
It was mid afternoon when I arrived at the lake and I decided on the inside gate swim, right in the teeth of a strong wind. It looked spot on for a bite, but alas it wasn’t to be.
A few hours later the fish started showing to my right, but due to the nature of the swim you couldn’t cast to that side. The darker and later it got the more the fish kept crashing, so in the middle of the night I decided I was going to move closer to the fish.
Interesting to say the least as the one and only swim to intercept these fish was concrete (big wind, bivvy, concrete, nowhere to put pegs in) by the time I finished securing the bivvy with anything heavy I could find, it looked like the “house that Jack built.”
A very interesting 24 hour session, but all the effort of moving paid off, I was rewarded with this cracking common – caught using ESP raptor T6 size 8, in a simple anti-eject set up with silt Two Tone.
It was certainly worth the effort!