by Brian Lloyd
With all the special offers on sale during the summer, not only in fishing tackle and bait shops but also in supermarkets, i had to give one of them a try. I managed to find some lovely coconut boilies and glug that were very cheap but seemed to be a very good quality and i set off to one of my favorite venues on the back roads to Newport in South Wales. Peterstone lakes is the home of the Birch Syndicate and also offer some pleasure lakes to the general public containing some very large carp, Barbel, Bream, Perch and other silver fish. The lakes are set just at the back of a working farm and offer fishing for all types of anglers.
I had decided on a feeder style set up using 12 lb line straight through to the hook link and a wide gape hook with quick stop for ease of baiting up. I was using a mix of ground bait that contained method, halibut, crushed boilies and particle mix and of course the coconut glug. The boilies them selves smelt lovely and if i could have eaten them myself i would have. For the first half of the day i baited up the area and persevered with just the boilies as a hook bait but unfortunately wasn't getting any decent bites. I did have a couple of knocks but nothing that i could have struck at. The weather was perfect is wasn't too cold and had a little cloud cover so i didn't understand why they just weren't working. 
After a while i decided i was tired of just sitting there and needed some action so a change of hook bait was called for and i switched to meat. Usually a change of hook bait can sometime bring on the bites and in this case it did exactly that. It wasn't long before i was into my first fish of the day starting of with a nice silver bream of a couple of pounds followed shortly by a nice little common Carp just under 4 or 5 lb. As well as using the meat i also tried out the Red Banana Nut crunch from Dynamite baits and that seemed to work and managed to catch me another nice Carp but the rest was all on halibut glugged meat. I managed a couple of Carp, a couple of nice Barbel and a few bream on my trip and although they didn't seem to go for the coconut boilies i still managed a good days fishing and will have to try the coconut out at a different venue.
Wet Nets & Tight Lines
