THE RETURN TO NENE VALLEY

( Nene Valley Nature Reserve )

On This Session I’m Joined With Another Great Friend Of Mine

( Nick Rudge ), We’d Hoped For A Slightly Earlier Departure But One Or Two Things Cropped Up But I’m Pleased To Say By Six O’clock We Had Both Arrived At The Venue With Plenty Of Time Still To Have A Good Look Around And Set Up.

The Plan Was To Fish Three Corner Lake Which Is The Smaller Out Of The Three Lakes To Fish, But After A Good Look Around And Lack Of Carp Activity And Angler Pressure We Both Decided To Do The Night On The Lake The Other Side Of Three Corner Lake Which Is Called Long Lake, We Spoke To Head Bailiff Jay Who Told Us A Few Were Pulling Off On The Thursday Morning So We Both Agreed To Get Up Bright And Early The Following Morning And Then Possibly Move?

( Matt’s Swim On Long Lake )

( Nick ) Opted For The Swim Next Door To My Left, As You Can Make Out From The Still Above We Both Hand A Large Bank Of Weed To Deal With In Front Of Us, So If We Did Manage To Connect With A Fish Bringing It Back Through That Lot Could Be A Problem?

Hence The Reason Why My Rod Tips Were So High, Trying To Keep As Much Line Off The Weed Whilst My Rigs Were In The Water.

Moving Swiftly On The Night For Me ( Matt ) Passed With Out Any Action, ( Nick ) Caught A Small Bream Thursday Morning Of Around Four / Five Pounds, As Mentioned Earlier We Awoke Nice And Early And Went Looking Over Three Corner Lake Once Again, And As Jay Said Some Anglers Had Departed, After Another Good Look Around And This Time Me And ( Nick ) Spotted Some Carp So Decision Made Were Moving.

( Matt’s Second Swim Of The Session ) ( Three Corner Lake )

( Nick ) Once Again Dropped Into The Swim Next Door To My Right, Their Was A Lovely Warm Wind Blowing Right Into Us And After Checking The Weather It Was Set To Continue For The Duration Of Our Session.

Weed Was Not So Much Of A Problem, More Like A Light Carpet Of Canadian Pond Weed, Which I Had No Problem In Presenting My Naked Chod Rig And Snowman Rigs In, I Could Also Sink My Lines And Fish Them Very Slack My Confidence In My Presentation Was Sky High!!!

So Everything Was In Place And As Always I Sat Back With Coffee In Hand Water Watching, Not Just Carp Spotting But Also Enjoying The Other Aspect Of This Wonderful Sport And That’s Wild Life Spotting, And Being In The Grounds Of A Nature Reserve Their Was Plenty!!!

( Heron )

The Day Passed Un Eventful And Shortly After Dinner And With The Early Start Thursday Morning Starting To Take It’s Toll We Both Decided To Reside To Our Bivvies Quite Early That Evening, By Midnight I Was Up Again Awoken By The Sound Of A Delkim, The Visitor Plugging My String Was This Little Fella.

( Midnight Wake Up Call )

Getting Back Into The Back After Re Spotting The Rod And Smelling Of Bream Lovely :( 

During The Remainder Of The Evening / Early Morning The Wind Continued To Blow And Rain Followed Being Heavy At Times But Sadly Mr Carp Stayed Elusive .

We Continued Fishing Up Until Early Afternoon But Pulled Off Around Three O’clock, No Carp But I Left With More Information And The Thinking I Have Obtained Another Piece To The Puzzle In Capturing My First Nene Valley Carp, Their Is Plenty Of Time Still And We Both Purchased A Winter Ticket And Will Be Fishing Through Autumn And Winter In Northampton This Year. Hopefully After Returning From France The Lake Will Have Switched On A Bit More?

Until The Next Updates Tight Lines And Happy Angling

                                                                                                  Matt

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