by Martyn Russ, Trish Lloyd, Brian Lloyd & John Rees
With a break in the weather and the rain set to stop until tomorrow Trish decided on a quick session up at Peterstone Lakes in Newport and we all jumped at the chance. Taking only our feeder rods and the bare minimum of tackle within 20 minuets of deciding to go we were on our way.
When we got to the lake we chose swims that were close to each other so as to fish in a group but noticed that none of the other fishermen seemed to be catching. As we started to feed up our swims we noticed that this was the case and we could be in for a difficult afternoons fishing. Thankfully this wasn’t the case as even though the fishing was quite difficult we all seemed to manage to catch some tidy fish with both myself and Trish getting personal bests on certain species.
I started the ball rolling with a nice big bream that fell to a 12mm halibut pellet on a hair rig whilst using halibut micro pellets as feed. Only to be followed by Trish with a nice little carp. Brian was soon to follow but the hook pulled on his first fish but it wasn’t long before he was into his second and landed a nice little mirror with a slightly deformed tail. John was soon to follow after with his first fish of the day a nice 4 lb. common witch he then followed closely with another just a little larger around the 5lb mark.
I noticed that the swims had quietened down slightly and found that getting bites were quite difficult until the rod suddenly shot round and i struck into a beautiful Perch around 3 or 4 lb. (my personal best Perch). Trish again followed shortly after with another nice carp and then Brian hooked into a lovely Barbel of a couple of pound in size.
Suddenly Trish’s rod shot round and she struck into what she described at the time as a lead brick but turned out to be a lovely Barbel of around 5 – 6 lb. (again her personal best Barbel) It looked like Barbel was on the menu as Brian managed another shortly after again in the 2 to 3 lb. mark. As the evening drew in the swims went really quiet with only John managing a small bream just before we decided to pack up. As it was only a short session that was done at the drop of a hat i was very surprised how well we did especially as we found out that no one else around all 3 lakes were actually catching any fish so we must have been doing something right.
Wet Nets & Tight Lines
