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FREE LINE / FIELD JOURNAL
17lb common
STEVE CARTWRIGHT
20lb-plus scaly carp
FIELD NOTES
So April comes around, and with it new opportunities: the weather starts
to improve, days get longer, and more importantly, we normally start on
a new water, whether that be syndicate club or other. For me, it was a
chance to reacquaint myself with a water I had fished before, the first time
some 12 years back when I moved from Epping in sunny Essex to Corby in
Northants. Now I had moved from one prolific carping county to another.
In the past, I had spent my time on the Walthamstow ressies, Lea Valley
Parks and a few local waters, so the move to Northants had sort of left me
wondering where I was going to fish. I knew that there was plenty of water,
but where? Don't ask me how, but I got talking to some guy locally who put
me on to a day ticket water about 15 minutes from where I lived.
I was desperate to get out so gave it a shot. It was August, and it was hot,
but it was a nice little water a bit scruffy with bit of litter but close to
home and somewhere to have a few hours. Long story short just after
I found it, it went syndicate. At the time, I was still on Monks Pit in
Cambridgeshire but decided to purchase a winter ticket. From what I could
gather, the biggest fish was a common that came out at around the 28lb
mark. It had a few twenties in and mainly doubles, and as it turned out,
that was pretty accurate.
The biggest fish I had was 25lb with some lower twenties and mainly
doubles.
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