Lewy's Lines

A session I finally get to take our daughter out fishing!  Well she wasn't too fussed about going fishing with her dad to be honest however she came along none the less to keep me happy as I was the excited one. We also took along good friends and neighbours Mike and Finlay to add to the experience. Of course the venue had to be Tees Valley Lakes as you are guaranteed many bites during the session from plenty of different types of fish. The Peg Arriving at Yarm Lake, there were a couple of anglers across the lake, one in the area I'd planned to fish with Mike and the kids so we picked Peg 2 to the left of the car park for our 3 hour evening session. Set-up Applying the keep it simple approach, two of the new Guru A-Class whips both at 3 metres together with a couple of pints of mixed maggots and plenty of hook lengths! The Session We plumbed up both Maude and Fin's swim to start on the bottom and purposely fed nothing to show the kids what the effect feeding would hav

Another evening outing with the work crew, this time we would be targeting the margins with proper gear.  One member of the team was missing however, Foxy, the tench tamer couldn't make the evening.  He did miss the action that was for sure! The Pegs Our normal pegs over the back of the lake which is mainly sociable and helps my "gilly" duties. Set-up I'd brought my carp top kits with elastic rated 14-16 coupled together with some proper carp rigs, 0.4g on 0.2 diameter line and size 12 hooks to a 0.17 hook length. Bait was a simple dead maggots and sweetcorn and I'd mixed up about 5kg of groundbait. The Session Jack arrived first and had set up his waggler rod and of course as Tees Valley doesn't disappoint was straight into fish. I set Aimee up with a top kit and dropped some groundbait into the edge with no loose offerings and put around 8 dead maggots on the hook.  It was taken straight away with an angry carp however it turned out to be foulhooked and

In the project team there are a few anglers: Old Skool - Foxy, not fished for over 10 years Nails - Aimee, fly fisher and shooter extraordinaire Padawan - Jack, new to the sport and is totally "hooked" and of course, me... I'm now officially an old guy! We had been talking of an evening session somewhere local to us all, where better than Tees Valley Lakes, guaranteed bites and fish for few hours after work. The date was set, the temperature wasn't quite to Foxy's requirements but he was excited and had removed his vintage gear from his carer's garage (circa 1981 box), re-elasticated his whips, grabbed some new line and rigs in readiness. Jack had purchased a new elasticated whip together with his guru whip, re-tied the rigs he had busted up on his last outing and had grabbed 4 pints of maggots for us all. Aimee, went to co-op, grabbed some food (I missed the text, otherwise I'd have requested chocolate bars!) and was borrowing gear from us all. The Pegs

June's venue for fishing was back to a commercial after the wild, natural waters of Lake Semerwater.  Only two of us available for this outing so Rich picked The Oaks at Sessay.  It's been over 11 years since I'd been here and with this weekend being free from big matches as ideal chance to pick on of the snake lakes and get some pellet and F1 bashing done. The Draw We had a wander around Maple, just behind the cafe and then walked over to Cedar via Oaks and back via Willow (the specimen lake). Both Maple and Cedar are about 14 metres wide and ideal for a pole only attack. We ended up selected pegs 13 and 14 on Maple where there wasn't an advantage over each other and made the fishing social. Set-up I'd only packed the pole to be honest and set up the following lines: 13 metres across - full depth Top 2 and 3 section off to my left - full depth Shallow rig Bait was extremely simple.  Fishery 4mm and micro pellets together with some 4mm expanders prepared the nig