Lewy's Lines

Getting back into fishing with Mark we had decided that a few days of match fishing and a day of big carp fishing.  We decided to try Blue Bell Lakes again, mainly due to the shop on-site and it's locality to Mark. I'd packed the Carp gear, but to be honest, not checked everything as I was confident it was all in the rod bag and haversack. We picked Blue Bell Lake and swims close to where we fished it before with the willow trees opposite. Set-Up I thought I'd packed well, but the first thing I couldn't find was the rod pod!  With the weather I opted for a zig rig on one carp rod and seeing the large shoal of bream I broke out the pellet waggler rod. All-In Well, before the all-in we could not find the landing net handle, so off to the shop and Mark purchased a new net and handle... more about this later. I cast the zig rig to the centre of the lake and the plan was to leave it for an hour.  Meantime I was pinging 8mm pellets to the large shoal of bream ...

Finally Mark and I get to resume our mini competition but this time rather than match fishing we decided to go in the hunt of large carp. It was back to the venue where all of it started, Blue Bell Lakes in Peterborough. This would be my first time with the rod pod and buzzers and I was hoping to use a bit of my match knowledge to winkle out a few larger specimens.  I would also be relying on Mark to be my teacher for the day. Mark had kindly brought all the bait needed, boilies, hemp, maize, pop-up's and also had prepared some rigs for me.  We met at the fishery at 8am and it had changed since out last outing in 1997.  The small portacabin had been replaced by a custom built shop / come garage for the owners bikes, it looked fantastic. Blue Bell Lake was our pick for the day and as the wind was blowing down the lake we took the 3rd and 4th swim's on the left side of the lake. Set-Up Now I can normally set-up my match gear quite quickly, so you would have t...