By Martyn Russ with Brian & Trish Lloyd plus John Rees
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| Martyn's Swim at Peterstone Lakes - Newport |
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| Brian's Barble 1 of 2 |
With both myself and my mother still recovering from hospital treatment and serious illness we just couldn't resist the hot weather that was forecast for the next few days and decided to get an afternoons fishing in at Peterstone Lakes in Newport. We arrived just before lunch and all of us decided on fishing the same lake with Trish and Brian at one end and myself and John Rees at the other. 3 of us were fishing feeders and Brian had decided on fishing the pole. John was the first to be rewarded for his efforts with a nice little common carp and Brian was the second to get action with a lovely Barbel, the first of 2 that he managed to catch on the day.
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| 1st Fish of the Day to John |
Trish was also getting plenty of fishing action and managed to catch some lovely big bream as well as a large Roach. It seemed that the fish were loving the luncheon meat gluged in halibut oil and also some gluged in monster squid.
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| Martyn's Big Bream |
I myself managed a couple of nice bream as well as a few commons and a little mirror. The action was great and the fish were plenty, it just seemed crazy we were catching so much as the rest of the lake seemed to be dead and no one was pulling anything out. John decided to change tactics half way through and moved up to the open water and presented a dog biscuit on the top.
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| John Taking the Carp of the Top |
This seemed to be the correct move as he was soon into a nice size carp but lost it in the reeds unfortunately as it snagged him up. I would have said it was well in its 20's or above and gave him no chance to react it happened so fast. This didn't put him off and he soon landed his biggest of the day around 8 to 10 lb little chunky common that put up a great fight. Both myself and john were having great fun snapping the carp of the top whilst Trish and Brian continued to catch at the other end of the lake. Every time we cast out we would throw a few freebie's along with it and watched as the carp played around with them on the top just waiting for them to take the bait then STRIKE! Carp On!
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| Martyn's Little Common |
We had a lovely day out fishing at one of our local and favorite venues and no matter how hard the fishing gets it always seems Trish and Brian who normally get the first fish of the day so it was a nice change for John, Well done! I also have to note that it was a brilliant effort from both myself and Trish as i was the first to give in as the weather just got too much for me and i started to feel very ill so ended up calling time. We didn't mind as we all had a really enjoyable day out and i can't wait for our next fishing adventure.
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| Another Bream for Martyn |
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| John Happy catching Carp |
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