Dan & Stottys Day at Drayton Reservoir .....

[DanDanUK]

Me and stotty took a day's fishing at Drayton Reservoir

The location
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the bait Pineapple Boilie with a mixture of pellets in a PVC bag.
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Unfortunatly Stotty only had the one fish out but belive you and me it was worth it 10lb Pike
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stottys bait after a few knocks unfortunatly he lost one or two they bit the bait and spat it out again.
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And now on to my reign of good fortune, i only smashed my own personal best carp record 3 times in one session, i caught 6 carp today all double figure from 10lb, to a whopping 15lb :D
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Hope you enjoy these pix as much as we enjoyed catching the fish.

[davo]

great pike by stotty, and good job dan for getting a new pb

[stotty]

:popcorn: Very nice :D had a great day looking forward to the the MFK do in the summer but we will get another in before than i hope;)

[Zorro]

Nice pike and nice carp. Good job guys

[Euge]

wow. nice job. looks like fun

[DanDanUK]

wow. nice job. looks like fun

it wasn't to start with, lol we wern't havin much luch it was really windy, we were chopping and changing rigs and baits, but we got there in the end ! ;)

[wayne the pain]

Great catch lads :)

Had a pike about that size yday myself:)

[stotty]

Great catch lads :)

Had a pike about that size yday myself:)




You know the law camera phone on you all the time Wayne.;)

[DanDanUK]

You know the law camera phone on you all the time Wayne.;)

yes you really need to have that camera phone.

don't you think Trophy photo's look much better than a fish with a bolt throught the head or body then thrown all over the floor covered in blood.

Catch and release ;)

or catch and eat the odd one or two. ;)

[rust9000]

Great job Guys, i hope we have some good luck when you come up my end :D

[wayne the pain]

You know the law camera phone on you all the time Wayne.;)


Got a passer-by to take a pic, but when i checked nothing on my camera:(

[DiXoN]

nice one you too.
i need another trip out again soon just been too busy lately.
well sort one for spring

[IMFishHead]

Great catches guys! Thanks for sharing!

[Steve_89]

Great pix guys.

Looks like fun :)

[DanDanUK]

nice one you too.
i need another trip out again soon just been too busy lately.
well sort one for spring

Oh yes Dixon definatly mate it would be good to see you again, spring would be perfect carp start to feed again :D

[stotty]

nice one you too.
i need another trip out again soon just been too busy lately.
well sort one for spring



Definitely got to have some of that again especially now my young apprentice has become a man with his first 15lb er :ROFL:

He will be telling me what to do soon.;)

[DanDanUK]

Definitely got to have some of that again especially now my young apprentice has become a man with his first 15lb er :ROFL:

He will be telling me what to do soon.;)

lol :ROFL:

[skinless]

a solid pike and some fat carp. nice

[ewurm]

How did you catch the carp, what bait? I never have had much success here in the states with carp.

[stotty]

How did you catch the carp, what bait? I never have had much success here in the states with carp.




Its a designer baits and they are called boilies They are aHard-boiled baits witch were originally introduced to carp angling in the late Seventies in the UK with the sole purpose of keeping nuisance fish from eating away the bait being presented to the Carp… though there were a few forward thinking anglers back in the sixties that began to experiment with different paste type baits and boiling the ingredients to make them hard.

The baits or ‘boilies’ as they were later to become known were very simple baits originally made from eggs and whole-wheat flour or semolina with some flavouring thrown in for good measure. These baits were rolled into various size balls and then boiled for a while to form a tough skin on the outside of the bait. Carp anglers started catching larger fish on these baits and the word soon began to spread throughout the carp angling community.

Hear are some links



http://www.carp.net/carp.htm

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/Carp-Fishing-Articles/make_boilies.html


http://www.geocities.com/diabolo38/bouille.html

We then use special bags made of PVA (Polyvinyl acetates) (water soluble bags) this is One of my favourite methods of carp fishing. It can be an absolutely deadly method of catching carp, because it presents a bed of pellets or whatever particle you choose to use, with your hook bait in amongst them, being the only one of its type and size. As it can be cast a long distance when assembles correctly, this presentation is something a carp is not used to in that location, normally only coming across whole single or beds of boilies. (Please see picture courtesy of Dan)

Good link

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/authors/martin01.htm




Sorry to have bored the:swear: of you all but this carp fishing really is taken seriously here in the UK. If any one ells wants an over complicated answer to a simple question to do with carp fishing please get back to me.:hitting:




Please any Americans intrested in carp fishing Please Please take a look at this:


http://www.americancarpsociety.com:8080/ACS/home.jsp


:popcorn:

[DanDanUK]

Good info there stotty mate, i'm gonna add them links to a sticky thread.

It's good to see that others from around the world are into carp aswell.