Good Afternoon.
Fishing in style at Blue Water Lakes!!
This is all rather luxurious. I am sat writing this post at a big table in the lodge. The rods are out and my receiver box is beside me. The remote control for the Sky TV keeps trying to tempt me to turn it on, but I am going to save it for the evening. I have not missed TV at all since I left the UK. I do like a dvd every so often so you can get really lost in a film, but TV is something I don’t need in my life at the moment. It controls and dictates what you do each day, and so many people run around making sure they don’t miss their favourite programme; slaves to the screen! When I returned to the UK in July for some fishing business and a family visit, the same old programmes were still playing and I have been gone nearly two years. I have the best entertainment all around me, nature, the dogs and my only lifeline to reality; my laptop. That will do me for the next few years with any luck!
It has been a while since I have seen one of these!!
I fished at Blue Water for a couple of days last November. There was a party of six anglers fishing at Gigantica for a week and I was part of that group. Blue Water Lakes provided a couple of nights fishing before we could travel the short distance up the road and start our week’s fishing, which always commences on a Saturday. I caught a small mirror from Blue Water on the first night and nothing on the second night and I was fishing at the shallower end of the lake by the picnic table on the point. Almost a year later and I am here again and this time I have the lake to myself for a few days. I have the use of Blue Water till Thursday and then I shall do a couple of nights on the smaller of the two lakes. The reason for this move is due to some anglers turning up on Thursday and as I am a guest it is only fair that I give them the main lake back!
Very popular with lots of carp anglers from the UK and Holland.
So, I have four days and nights to try and catch a carp or three. I have already put the rods out and have placed them in a variety of depths from 8-13 feet. I have a range of hookbaits on offer, all with a little bit of colour. Two rigs are 360 rigs and the other two are blowback types. It is generally a night-time water but as the weather has turned in the last couple of days and we are now in for a mild week, this will hopefully encourage the carp to have a really good munch. I have ‘plenty’ of bait with me, and I am hoping I may need to use it all. I have started off with a small introduction around each rod and have put in whole and chopped boilies, which I crushed easily with my Krusha. Dynamite boilies are generally soft out of the bag and the Krusha makes light work of them. I am also fishing with the Korda PVA stocking, full of crushed baits.
Crushing with my Krusha
PVA stocking full of Mussel and Oyster attraction.
A selection of hookbaits on offer.
Nick Helleur (smash em’) did an article for Carpworld last year about Blue Water Lakes when he was testing some new bait from Dynamite Baits and this was with the Spicy Tuna & Sweet Chilli boilies. Guess what? That is what I am using alongside the Mussel & Oyster boilies from the fresh fish range. The lake has not been on top form recently but no lakes in the area have been fishing their heads off and this is probably down to the very cold Northerly winds that have been blowing the last couple of weeks. The two lads fishing at Blue Water last week managed about eight carp between them and the previous week about fifteen were caught. Gigantica did produce a carp this morning and it was to Dan the bailiff. He had fish over his spot very early this morning and at 7.30am a run came and a pretty 25lb linear was the end result. At least we saw one carp and it was definitely worth a photo.
At least a carp was caught in the end!
It will be rather strange sleeping in a lodge tonight. My bedchair is set up in the social area and it is only a ten yard dash to my rods. My swim is in front of the lodge! I have opted to drop two rods from the boat at approximately a 100 yard range (inflatable boat…not remote bait boat) and I have cast two rods from the bank.
Two rods dropped from the boat.
And two rods cast from the bank.
My remote controlled bait boat. I control it with my arms and oars!
Even the dogs have a spot of luxury tonight as they are sleeping on the lodge floor on their beds. They will thank me in a few days time when they are back in the bivvy!
"Is there underground heating Dad?"
Carp wise Blue Water Lakes holds a good head of fish to over 50lbs. The fish are apparently now full in weight and some of these fifties could be big upper fifties. There are also a few catfish to over 100lbs but I am hoping the colder temperatures will have put an end to their boilie feeding till the spring. I have come for the carp and fingers crossed, they are what I will get. I am now going to cook some lovely food and get myself comfortable. I don’t want a good night’s sleep, I want to be busy, and I am looking forward to my first night at Blue Water Lakes.
A Blue Water cat!!
And a lovely Blue Water carp!!
Back soon.
Jake and the dogs.
