Evening all!
Encouraging news but no carp landed unfortunately. Sadly the hook pulled at some point as I was on my way out in the boat, and I ended up skimming my pink pop-up across the surface about 150m away from my marker. My 10oz grippa lead had released and I can only assume that the hookhold wasn’t nailed or the hook had caught the corner of the carp’s mouth and tore out. Either way it is encouraging news, and the move into deeper water was obviously a good one.
If I had landed this carp it would have been my deepest capture in the last 30 months. The depth I am fishing this spot is around 36ft; one night at Cassien back in 2008, I caught a 23kg mirror from 28ft. I do prefer the range from 13-21ft personally, as it covers a good range of temperature and depth, but if the fish are showing where the water’s deep, then it has to be worth a shot.
The run was quite amusing actually as the 6v battery in one of my ATTs heads is practically finished. I heard the low battery warning (a few quick and repetitive beeps) as the line moved the roller. This was all the indication I got but I then heard my baitrunner as the fish pulled line off in short spurts. Thankfully I have good ears, but the fish was lost so that makes little difference now! I have now ditched this alarm and am back to three rods. I have moved another rod out to join the deep spot rod so I have two hook baits in the area, and if I catch tonight or tomorrow morning, I will then put all my eggs in one basket, and stick all three out there!
I am off to sleep now, and lucky me – I have some dodgy restaurant music to send me off!
Cheers
Jake and the dogs.
Tags: ATT's, cassien, jake langley-hobbs
