Edit: And the following 2 days were also flooded out, still every session that includes a twenty is a good one. Oh, and here is a friendly River Wye robin!
And a bonus perch for me on bleak livebait, at 2lb 1oz it is my personal best.
The largest carp caught was 26lb and there were plenty of doubles, the largest pike was 12lb and there were lots of year old pike as well as a good head of perch and roach (I didn't know there were roach in this pond). Can wait to get after those pike!
New venue, I was after tench but the 14lb carp gave a great fight on 5lb line and a 10 barbless hook. Also caught 3 small roach but the tench will have to wait for another day!
Beat the magic 20 pound mark, yeeaaah! Horrible rainy morning but it was worth it. Nearly lost it when it went round a 'no fishing beyond this point' sign out in the water but it decided to go back round it the same way.
Another leather carp, which takes my total up to 10 carp so far...
My first double leather carp. I also caught 11 small perch on float fished worm, would have been 12 but a pike took one off the line.
Taking my total weight of carp to 100lb 12oz, so I've cracked my target of 1lb of carp to £1 of cost to fish here... But I'm not stopping there...
Trying to get the bigger perch using lob worm, but the small ones still eat them. Biggest perch was about 9-10oz...
<- Opps! I was pretty sure when I saw it that it was the same fish I caught yesterday, it had a slightly deformed mouth and the large central scale. Now I've blown the photos up on my mac I can confirm it is the same fish - 2oz lighter today. Better photo!!
New person best! So close to the magic 20lber. It takes my total carp weight up to 53lb 12oz (Still need 15lb 4oz to reach my goal).
42 perch in total, the biggest ones were about 8oz. All taken on float fished worm hook bait.
So it's round 1 to Dan, who broke his rod 2 hours into the session and continued to fish holding it together.
And a bit of Photoshopping later... Monster...
10 minutes walk from Streatham High Street, across a park and hidden by trees, Tooting Bec pond is like being in a different country. At 7am, with parakeets flying overhead and terrapins swimming about, it's so easy to forget you are in London.
First carp from Tooting. It cost £69 for a permit, so I'm going to try and match (or beat) the price in pounds of fish. A running total will appear to the right... 58lb of carp left to catch...
