Well here we are again, its been a while since i have posted on my blog but there has been plenty of fishing going on. This time after work on a Friday 6-2 shift me, Snakey and Lavis opted to try out the new stretch of the Wye on the BAA licence at Kings Caple only to find when we arrived that most of the pegs were taken up leaving us with the overgrown unfishable pegs left. It didn't look a bad stretch and we will be back in the near future to give it a bash. Anyway we opted to drive to Wilton Bridge day ticket stretch on the Wye at Ross for a few hours fishing and as you will read i think it was a good decision! There appeared to be nobody fishing in sight despite it being a well known day ticket stretch so me and Jake opted to double up and fish a peg we had before that had resulted in a lost barbel for me and a decent sized bream while Lavis moved further downstream to a peg on his own.
The weather was very warm and humid and we were pretty confident that we would have some action when the sun started to disappear,
It was already getting late so i decided to fish one rod only on the 6oz tip close to the margins under a snaggy tree, a few handfuls of cheesy garlic pellets ,skrill pellets and some meaty groundbait were thrown around the corner of the bush while i set up a free-running rig with a long hooklink baited with a hair-rigged barbel hybrid pellet and small mesh bag of halibut pellets. The bait was lowered on the spot gently and i sat back to relax.
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| Pristine common at 14lb |
I had not been sat down for more than 2 minutes and was caught me by suprise when my tip bent round fast and hard, i panicked, put down my drink quickly and hit it.....Instantly the rod bent round and me and Jake knew i was into a good fish when it starting stripping line. It was heavy with powerful lunges and for a minute i thought i was into a decent barbel, After the fish topped it was clear it was infact my first ever river carp, and not a bad one at that! After a close quarter fight for a few minutes, whilst trying to keep the carp away from the snaggy tree, it was in the net and i was over the moon. He weighed in at 14lb, in prime condition and may not of even been caught before.
