Spring Lea Zoo has been restocked

Spring Lea Saturday 2nd May 2010 - Orfe Peg 38


Typical planned session. Cold, damp, slightly windy and threatening rain. Spent all evening with thoughts of Horseshoe, 2 pints of reds and aiming for skimmers. 7am and the sign said closed for match. Pondered. Made coffee and sausage cobs. Pondered. It was damp after a night of seriously heavy rain. It was cold, it was breezy. It was warm last week, it was cold today. It was warm yesterday, it was cold today. Pondering equalled it will be hard. PC arrived 7.40am, twenty minutes early as usual - keen as mustard. I finished my cob and coffee. White van took kit away.

It will be hard today.

Looked at Orfe. Bleak. Cold. No one on it. Hardly anyone on it yesterday. Um!

It will be hard today!

We looked at one side and then the next. We walked from one peg to the next. It didn't look fishy. So we decided to face into the wind, but with the bonus of a grassy bank behind us. A quarter of a way down Orfe.

After much messing around it was after 9am I finally started.

Almost the first put in and PC was into a decent carp. More followed and a bream! It looked like PC's first victory was on the cards, it was serious catch up time. I had about 7lb and PC at least 12lb.

Rig was wrong, tangle after tangle. Bloke opposite catching zoo creatures in the margin on maggot. So what did I do. Barrrrrrrrr sheep. Went in the margin for an hour after catching stockies at 10 metres. Bits, bits and nothing. Back at 10 metres. Stockies, gudgeon and odd better carp.

Bloke opposite had another zoo creature. Barrrrrrrrrrrr sheep into the margins, bits , bits, wasted of time.



10 metres. Stockies. PC snagged a few more carp, better stamp. Tangle - rig making me swear. Couldn't see it and two inches between pole end and float. But on we go.

Then came the mother of all tangles and the rig was RIP. Thank God!

New rig and off we go. Fish a put in on small soft pellets. Stockies, small carp and the odd zoo creature taking me on blue hydro halfway around the lake. On final put in at a 2lb carp. They just kept on coming.

PC thought he was close. Weight in showed PC with a respectable 25lb. However out they came, bottom ring full and a 50lb was weighted in. Could have been more without tangles, patience with zoo creatures and sheep antics. Fished 9am-5pm with breaks and chopping and changing. Roll on the summer!