Mark McKenna had a productive week on his last Savay rota bagging three of the lakes jewels in sweltering conditions. Here’s Mark with the details:
‘I had been suffering a distinct lake of angling time in recent months through the usual pressures of juggling work, family and other commitments sidelining my fishing for nearly six months so when the glorious 16th rolled around I decided to fish as much of my rotas as possible.
The first two were non eventful with only a handful of fish coming out to both rotas and I felt I had been close on a couple of occasions but no ‘toffee crisp’! That all changed last rota when I got on a load of fish on the shallows and the bites started to come thick and fast, the result was 4 bites with three upper twenties landed.
The action was short lived as spawning started with huge fish going at it hammer and tongs for 3 days and nights by the time they’d finished the birdlife decided to derail any hope of keeping rigs in the water fishing effectively and that was the end of that!
The successful method was solid ESP PVA bags containing ‘krumbed’ Savay Salmon boilies, Salmoniser liquid and Salmon Oil presented in weed in 18” of water with a 4” ESP Sink Link braided hook link and a ‘trimmed’ Savay Salmon pop up mounted ‘D’ rig style on an ESP Raptor D7 hook.
I was particularly pleased with the result as two of the fish were not recognized by anyone who’s seen the pics so were from the stock of ‘odd uns’ that rarely see the bank – whilst not massive they were great to see as with any water it tends to be the same fish getting caught repeatedly. As an aside it was a great to see old ‘Horatio’ aka the ‘Grey Fish’ basking on the shallows – that might just raise an eyebrow or two if it ever gets banked again, it looked like a big grey gas bottle drifting about in the pond!
A very enjoyable session, I haven’t had three in a rota very often so to do it with the way it’s fishing at the moment was a real bonus and a good inclination of just how strong a performer the Savay Salmon freezer bait is!’
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