Renny Lakes, East Harsley, 18th June 2011
Nursing a bit of a hangover from the nights celebrations for Neil's birthday I got to Renny lakes a little later than I wanted too. I wanted to re-fish the rear lake, but target the first swim on the right hand side of the lake with plenty of margins, an aerator within pole distance and loads of potential. I was pleasantly surprised that no-one was on the lake at 8am, so I go the swim I was after. Plumbing up I found a regular depth in both margin swims. As this would be my nephews first outing I wanted him to catch fish from the off, so I plumbed a swim that utilised just the top two sections of the pole so he wouldn't have to learn how to ship out and back in. I kicked off the swim with a pot full of pellets and corn, with some good old maggots just to get some action. I didn't have to wait long. The first carp took double white maggot, a lovely little stock carp of around 2lb. They certainly know how to run as the white elastic was out like a shot. A chang