Lewy's Lines

Took the day off work and decided to head up to Cambridge from London for a weekend fishing with matey (Mark). On the way up I chose to visit Manor Farm Fisheries in Biggleswade and tackle the Blunham Lake, one that I've not tried before. Choice of attack for the session was the Pole and Feeder, here is the set up. The lake was pretty still, wind wasn't up and it kept on threatening to rain.  The pole line was 10 metres out where the depth was around 6 feet. The pole line didn't produce anything other than roach.  While fishing I noticed that there was bigger fish crashing out towards the middle of the lake. I was the only person fishing the lake all day, so after spotting this activity I took out the feeder rod, 6lb mainline with 4lb hooklength of about 18" to a size 14 and put a nice juicey worm on the hook. Casting to the commotion it took around 20 minutes before the tip wrapped round and I connected with something a little larger than the roach I...

I took Friday 15th October 2010 off work and headed down to Manor Farm Fisheries , to fish the Becks Lake with very good friend Mark Keightley, aka "matey".  I did borrow quite a bit of terminal tackle from Mark including something to sit on...  Thanks matey! We decided to fish a double swim, which was a lot more sociable than being in separate swims, plus we could help each other out in case of big fish... or birdlife... more about this later. We tackled up and started fishing about 8am.  Mr Keightley had brought us some red maggots, all sorts of bollies, hemp, sweetcorn, good old spam and his home made ground bait made from trout pellets and crumb plus other offerings. I decided to start with a simple insert waggler set-up and Mark set up the first of his Carp rods. Excuse the cheesy grin... but I was well happy! Plumbing the depth, I started with a couple of small golf balls of groundbait in a line about 3 rod lengths out.  Hookbait I ...