Saturday saw me have a rare pleasure session, and I chose to
go to Field’s End Fishery, in Doddington, near Chatteris. I fished The Pool,
which was presumably an irrigation reservoir about 80 yards across. The water
is clearer than most commercials, and drops down quite deep.
Four carp around 3 lb came to expander in the first two
hours on a top-two plus two, and I lost three foulhooked. I then tried shallow
with banded pellet, and in the next two hours had a great time, landing about
25 ide all around 3 lb, and a 3 lb carp, ending up 11 metres out. Then the wind
got up, and sport slowed, so I changed to a top two with corn. The first three
drop-ins saw carp of around 8 lb, 9 lb and 10 lb come in!
I walked up to a pleasure angler to my left and had a 15-minute
conversation. He was catching smaller ide on a pellet waggler. I went back,
intending to catch two more fish and then pack up. Two fish came quickly, and I
packed up all my rigs apart from the top-two rig.
I dropped in again, hooked another carp, and in the next 45
minutes landed a round 70 lb of carp between 3 lb and 6 lb. No nets are
allowed, but I reckon I had between 180 lb and 200 lb of fish. A wonderful day.
Such a pity the owners do not allow any matches to be fished.
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