Sherwood Lake Friday Night - Testing the Superteam

Arriving at a cheeky 3pm I decided to fish Sherwood lake as a. There were Chavs on Cavendish ( no disrespect John) and never fancy Maundale.
Sherwood is very quiet on a Friday night across all lakes and worthy of quick sessions...needs a cafe!

Sensibly i pulled up to a peg that was handy rather than desired...it wasnt a bad decision all told, plus it meant I could view jodphurs on horseback from the local 'Fionas'....happy days.

Up went the new Shakespeare Superteam ( superb by the way) with 1oz tip and small 20g Drennan Cage Feeder ' in the loop' with 18 drennan feeder hook and hair. Corn / Pellet were the choice of baits.

Bearing in mind my recent ability to smash poles and catch nothing i took the risk of casting to the airator at about 20m. Fished from approx 3.20 until around 7pm and in total fished 'steady' around 15 skimmers all about 1/2-1lb with the exception of the first one at around 3lb...5-10 ide...8oz or so and a small stockie...

Casting as tight as i dare to the airator...bites were steady....lost another carp but wasnt a biggie...

Bloke in peg next to me pushing 70 on pole 'bagging' .....Crucian / Carp / Skimmers / Tench....looked like hemp and caster or pellet...

Love the Rod....Friday is Good....Love Jodphurs

Lakeview.....the 8 hour stare....Festival my arse

Nothing more to say...I tried pellet, I tried maggot, corn, meat, monkey toenail.....in the words of my mate Hugo...." De float he no move"...captured so eloquently there.

Lakeview - Harbour

Fished Harbour on the small arm that branches off. Straight across, cupping in only a bit of bait, taking it very easy.

Fished with corn and later on strawberry pellet as it was so hot. Arms burning forced to put hoodie on even though I was sweating. Weather sure to go cold if I place lotion into my holdall.

Still and very hot, steady throughout but took it really easy, didn't fish it hard as helping Luce.

Highlight was a huge battle with a 5.7 lb carp which took me all over the place on white hydro. But white hydro was king and it came to the net.



Ended with around 15-20 fish. The man below didn't fish but is from Ireland and its meant to be good there!

Still mad for it and need to seek help!

April Sunburn? - Lakeview - Harbour - opposite the gap

Arrived at Lakeview around 8.30am after a slow start, usual lack of sleep - tired and grumpy. Confident of a peg on a good lake after all the changes. Key lakes were matched up and so headed to Harbour, only later to find that Serpent was free.

Fished opposite end of Harbour. Opposite the gap where the leg of Harbour branches off - on the map below exactly where the H of Harbour is.



Fished three swims in all - straight in front, at 2/3 O'clock and in the margins to my left under a tree. Caught in first two swims from the off, fishing on the bottom with corn having cupped in small pellets. Didn't go near the margin until later.

It was hot, dam hot, in t shirt from 8.30am arrival and ended up with burnt arms, it was like August can't remember the last time I fished in weather like this and only a month ago it was breaking ice weather. Caught steadily for first two hours, but then the sun was high, hot and it was still slowed right down. Picked up the odd fish in margins and swim straight across. Still not convinced of needing more than one swim.

Caught between 20-25 carp so about 30-40lb of fish. Good session but sleep needed. Fished 9am-1pm. Bring on the next session.

Spring at Spring Lea

Two sessions at Spring Lea in typical winter weather. Cold and windy both days. Day one on Orfe. Fished pole and feeder with maggot on pole and corn on feeder plenty of bits, skimmers, two good bream and three carp. Ok session just need some weather. Highlight was PCs 6.5lb carp nice fish.

Second day fished Horseshoe. Usual skimmers, bits and three carp. Both days steady and better days to be had with a bit of consistent weather. Really windy to the extent had to fish on top four on Horseshoe later on.



Horseshoe Catch



Orfe Catch






6.5lb carp for PC