Robby

Friday 10th may.   I set off down to lamby lake Friday afternoon with a 48 hour session in front of me. my mate had phoned to say it was getting busy down there and to hurry up because there weren't many pegs left,but there was a free peg next to him it a bit of a boxed in swim but I didn't have no choice.I walked the brolly round first before anyone else turned up. I was speaking to the boys on the way round. and they hadn't had any so far. my mate had another 28lb simmo earlier in the day so I felt confident I would be close to the fish setting up next to him. so I set up the rods and my homemade on the one rod and one on the beast feast 14mm.The fish were crashing in the middle of the lake so I whacked them both out to the middle put about half a kilo of freebies over each rod hoping something big would come in and wipe me out along with my beast feast snowman rig or my bottom bait combi rig.. as the day went on to evening nothing happened the fish stopped showing and the rain picked up.We decided it was time to get the Indian in so I wound in and popped over the Indian for some grub.After getting refuelled the rods went back out on the spots with fresh pva stringers and hook baits. I managed to get my head down about 9 pm.   I woke up at 8 am  alarms still silent so I recast both rods and put the left hand off the spot were I had put the bait in and within an hour it was off. it turned out to be a 12lb fully scaled mirror. I was well happy I was off the mark and hadn't blanked.The rod went straight back out to the same spot but nothing happened.I recast my right hand rod close to my other rod  on the beast feast snowman  to see if I could get another one out and within a couple of hours it the alarm let out 3 beeps wen I was having a nap so I was straight up and into the fish it gave me a proper hard scrap all the way in it turned out to be a 15lb common. the rod went straight out to the same spot but nothing happened for the remainder of the session few other fish out around the lake loads of doubles and a few 20s none of the biggies though

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Robby Lea

 Robby lea 

Friday 3rd may. I arrived at Lamby lake at 6:30 pm.There was a few anglers on the lake but plenty of pegs free. I thought I wouldn't be able to get a peg because the lake have been shut for the last month and it was open weekend. I barrowed my kit round the lake and as I  was walking round the fish were crashing out nearly all over the lake.My mate was already set up. he had been there since open day on the Tuesday he had 3 16lb mirrors since he had been there so I thought the fish were in the general area so I set up next to him in a swim called "The cat swim". No one had fished it since open day so I thought it would be a good idea to get in there and have a go. I have been pre-baiting for the last month with my homemade specials so I was hoping  it wont take long to get into the fish again. I decided to fish my homemades on both rods with 3 bait stringers and catapult a few around  the hookbaits as the night went on nothing happened. I was woken up then at 5:30 with a one toner on the delks, after a hard fighting scrap in the rain I netted my first fish of the season a 16lb common my mate was asleep and it was raining so I didn't bother waking him up for photos. I recast with a fresh stringer and some more over the top. Nothing happened for the rest of the day until 7 pm when I had two beeps on the alarm and the bobbin lifted slightly and the line tightened. I thought I got to pick the rod up so I picked the rod up and wound into it and it  felt heavy so I was very careful playing it in  after making several runs to the centre of the lake it finally gave up and I slipped the net under a nice chunk. it turned out to be a 28lb mirror called "the tank".. I was buzzing now so I quickly put another stringer on and whacked it straight back to the spot I had the mirror from but sadly nothing happened for the rest of the day or night. I was thinking the fish have moved but they were jumping and crashing all over the place. At Sunday dinnertime I was thinking of moving down the other end of lake were one of the boys was catching so I started packed down everything but the rods and left them until the boy left.. I was speaking to my mate on the next peg down and all of a sudden I could hear my reel spinning violently so I ran up to my swim and I was into another lamby carp . it didn't really fight to hard it came it quite easy it turned out to be a nice 14lb scaley mirror it was a stunner fair play.. In the end I decided to stay in the same peg id fished all weekend because I had that last fish so I set all my stuff back up. and I recast once again to the same spot with a three  bait stringer and left it overnight then 6am had another screamer on the other rod this time after a good little scrap it was in the net. it turned out to be a nice 19lb mirror , my mate had gone home and there was no 1 on my side of the lake  so I had to take a photo on the mat.   I packed up early and went home with a big smile on my face knowing that the bait is working ready for the Welsh Carp Championship in 3 weeks time.

tight lines Robby

Anthony Bryant

Anthony Bryant

I did two nights on my pool first weekend it as been open since its six week closed season so it was pretty busy all the better pegs where taken so I set up camp in a quite little corner. I had this 14lb10 mirror carp on a snowman setup using a Celtic Bait 14mm ss boilie and a small green Celtic Bait pup over a small mix of Celtic Bait pellet crushed and whole ss boilie and some crushed nuts.

Friday 19th April .

Friday couldn't come quick enough I was gagging to get the rods out me,Brian,Dai and dafydd went up to  Bradleys lake again for the second weekend in a row. It's a massive lake with a few biggies and plenty of small ones to go for but there are loads of crayfish which are a pain. Me and dadydd arrived at the lake around midday the weather was warm and a nice wind blowing. I set up in the teeth of the wind and away from most of the angling pressure. I used a choddy on the one rod with a Celtic baits ss pop up pink dumbell I sticked out half a kilo of My homemade boilies around the choddy  . On the other 2 I used My homemade scopex and coconut bottom baits that  were fished over spod mix ,consisting of hemp, boilies ,tigers  and some good old vitalin.
As the night went on nothing happened  and I woke up at 9 am boiling hot. The sun was beaming . It was a nice bit of spring sunshine for a change
Me and dafydd joined a angling club in the cotswolds on the friday so we thought we would go and do a night over on the big-pit to have a look round and get a little heads up about the place.it is 100 acres plus and this is the lake me and dafydd will be targeting this year. It's a low stock water with a few big fish in there, but finding them is going to be the hard bit. I did see a big dead pike in the shallows so could be worth a go in winter for pike. Everything is a bit quiet up there no one really tells you a lot and no one really knows how many fish are in there , nor the size of the  carp in there.   Hopefully me or dafydd will get amongst them this coming season . We have a lot of learning to do up there.
I will report back next week we are going up for a 48hr session on friday  . Tight lines robby

Had a day on baden halls middle pool not fishing for big fish average fish about 8lb. The lake was very pressured about 60 pegs and it looked like the lake was full i haven't fished like this for a long time had 8 fish out smallest 6lb 11 to biggest 10lb 3 about 60lb of fish all together and lost 2. I had 1 on a 1ft zig with celticbait pop up on. Had 1 on a stiff hinged rig with a celticbait bait pop up on.  And the rest fell to 14mm celticbait ss boilies on a simple knotless knot rig over a scattering of ss freebies here is a couple of pictures of the better ones.

First trip to Bradleys

Brian Robby & Dan 

Have a good 24 hrs on Bradley's which ended with Brian having 4 Carp Dan on a tench and Robby just missing out on a lake that has not had any fish on the bank for a long while then Brian finds the fish and has 4 4 on the bank in 3 hrs two on the Celtic Bait Pop ups and two on the Beast Feast,  the fish went to

13 lb 3 oz

14Lb dead

20Lb 9 oz

21lb 1 oz

Dai has a good 24 hr session on the Celtic Bait G-Nut with over 10 Carp with the biggest just over 14 Lb 

Robby

I just got home from a grueler of a session. I went down to lamby lake for the last session of the 2012/2013 season .  I went down on Thursday afternoon after work.  as I looked over the lake from the road I could only see one person on the lake and that was My mate dadydd. It was soon to change because of the bank holiday. I was using celtic baits g_nut and celtic ss pop ups, anyway nothing happened for me the first night but My mate dadydd had a 20lb common at 4.30am so he woke me up for photos and then he woke me up again at 8 he only gone and had a 28lb mirror known as "the tank". By this time I was trying My best to snare one . As I've blanked for two weeks on the trot. Dafyydd was on the spicy sausage pop ups again so I jumped on the bandwagon and stuck one on a choddy and cast it out near to were he had his fish from. Weather was lovely bit cold but sunny, spring is slowly coming to us at long last .  another nite went on but I couldn't even get a beep, yet dadydd who was fishing next to me went on to have another 28lb mirror known as "3 scale " .  So he was well happy n I was pulling My hair out by then. I stayed for 4 nights and blanked hard I was on the fish but just couldn't get a take but that's the way it goes . The lads opposite me and dafydd  were also catching haveing 3 high doubles to 19lb.  Gota bit of wrk to do now while the lake is shut. Me and dafydd got the Welsh carp comp at the end of may so a bit of pre-baiting is on the cards..
Tight lines robby

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