After the closure of the Roach Pit in Ringwood, Daren ‘Tinpot’ Norman needed to find an alternative venue and he did so in style on a local Kent pit…
‘Just dropping you a report about a lovely bit of fishing I’ve had over the last week from a Kent pit. The first action was from a cracking old grey mirror of 31.08 caught from the margin, 20 minutes after putting a rig in after finding some fish.
The chunky 31lb 8oz mirror
I did the night in the same swim adding a 24lb long mirror before packing up and going to work at 4.30am.
The long 24lb mirror
Two days later I was back for a days stalking before my night shift and after getting four fish going mad on a mix of hemp and chopped krill boilies ,I lowered a bait amongst them and 20 seconds later a gutty 31.08 common was shaking its head nailed!
31lb 8oz common
The final fish came from a 3rd different swim after spotting some fizzing up after my last night shift . Two baits were cast to them on light leads and a handful of 12 mm boilies were put over them . Two hours later I was woken by a hard fighting dark old common of 29.02 and it finished off a lovely times week of angling for me very nicely’.
The final fish, a perfect 29lb 2oz common
‘All the fish were taken on a new rig I’ve been playing with, a bit like a stiff hinge rig but for a bottom bait. 15lb Syncro Loaded, tubing, lead clip, prototype tungsten hooklink to stiff bristle and size 5 stiff rigger’.