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The past twelve months have simply flown by since I joined my Wyre Forest syndicate back in 2023, and I feel that now is the perfect time to look back at my first season on this beautiful little water.  My first session took place on the second week of June 2023, weather wise it was an absolutely beautiful day, with an air temperature close to 30 degrees. Normally I'd have made the decision not to fish in such weather, but as I had the time available and was itching to get my first session under my belt I made the decision to fish, and I'm so glad that I did. The session got off to a slow start, regarding the conditions it didn't come as any surprise, by mid afternoon when the heat of the day was at it's peak, a window of opportunity became available, as the resident carp IMO looked as if they might be up for a floater?. At 3.00pm I cast a single free lined Nashbait Slicker Floater towards a carp which was just under the surface around three rod lengths away from the bank, the cast was perfect and the floater landed centimeters from it's nose, seconds later it's big old mouth effortlessly sucked in the hook bait and it was fish on. For the next five minutes I went on to experience an almighty scrap, without doubt it was the best ordeal I'd had with a carp throughout 2023, finally I won the battle and opened my account from my new water, what a scrap, what a carp, and a new floater PB.  Throughout the summer of 2023 I kept my floater rod in my armoury, but I failed to create another clear opportunity and I didn't go on to catch anymore off the surface during 2023. However I did go on to catch some more of the resident carp, all the captures in the slideshow below fell to my trusted Twisted Multi Rig presentation using the awesome Scope Squid from Nashbait. As well as photographs I've also been keeping a video diary of my sessions all current episodes can be viewed below.
What will 2024 have in store? keep an eye on the Carp Marathon social feeds for updates thanks for reading, tight lines and happy angling Matt. |
