Anthony Wood

Ant Wood shares a late-September week-day fishing session with us.

“Well I have to say I didn’t expect to get the result I did today.

I arrived to see over 50 Carp all sunbathing on the surface and thought this is going to be difficult – at this fishery when they are sunbathing they usually aren’t interested in eating. Sure enough after half an hour of trying on the surface I had nothing.

Time to rethink my strategy, I had some Bait-Tech Envy Method mix but didn’t want to swap all my gear over so I made it so that I could use it as groundbait and placed a bed of Envy about 3-4 foot out from the bank at the edge of a lily bed.

I then float fished sunken bread flake on a size 4 hook. After about 10 minutes I had my first bite, which was my first ever Grass Carp at about 2lb.

I was well happy.

What followed was a 4 hour session of great fun where I caught two 10lb Carp, three Carp of around 7lb and another of around 5lb. What an absolutely fantastic session at a brilliant fishery.

The fishery was: Barn Fishery, Nuneaton.