Perch Fishing – Now this ain’t no Perch!
This morning i was up at 5am and out on the river by 5:30am. I was hoping after the rain that the river may liven up a little, unfortunately the only perch i managed to capture was probably about half a pound. I had been trotting the a lob and moving every 30 minutes to try to cover as much ground as possible.
At about 7:30 i spotted bubbles coming up just off some reeds no more than 6 feet from the bank so crept up and slowly lowered a huge lob into the water about 2 feet from the bubbles. After ten mins the float slowly dissappeared, i struck into thin air and the lob was gone. There was no great movement of a spooked fish so i lowered another in, and the same thing happened again… so in went another…
This time i struck and for a split second i thought i was snagged, and then boom the clutch went absolutely mental and i was into something that went off down river like a steam train. I thought the reeds would stop it but oh no this fish had other ideas and come very close to the surface and the tail broke the water! Wow boy oh boy was it a tail and a half… and it signalled to me that i was into a decent Common Carp! It run downstream about 30-40 yards before i managed to turn it round, and about 10 knee knocking minutes later the battle was over and i managed to scoop it up into my net.
Low and behold i was in total shock at what i had just achieved! And what made it even sweeter was that i managed to land it on 6lb line with a 4lb hooklink on a John Wilson Avon 1.25tc rod! I want another one already!
The setting was amazing for the picture and thankfully they came out really good! A big thanks go out to Sam for rushing down from work to take the pictures, i owe you more than a few beers! Thanks mate!
