Lawn Farm Fisheries, Elsworth, 7th May 2011
Friday night saw thunderstorms and rain in the Cambridge region which affected the weekends fishing. Saturday saw a re-visit to Lawn Farm Fisheries but this time Mark and I decided to fish Willows, the larger lake in the complex. Willows contains larger Carp and on a previous session Mark had bagged some cracking Carp up to 12lb. I chose Peg 35 which gave me the option of fishing to the island and also the point of the island, Mark fished Peg 36 to my left. I decided to set up a method feeder and pellet waggler. I also mixed some groundbait with hemp, corn and a pint of dead maggots. I also prepared some micro pellets. Bait for the day was banded pellets, gotbaits ghost hookers , hair rigged corn, worm and dead maggots. The session - it started well with a nice 5lb common carp. The bite came just as the rain started to come down, so playing the fish I got a good soaking, much to the amusement of Mark who was happy sat under his brolly on the next peg. But it was me who wa