Our first visit of the winter to Conwy Water Gardens was greeted with pleasant weather conditions. After recent gales and persistent rain, a flat calm lake and mild temperatures meant everyone was confident of a few bites.
Well, to coin a phrase..' it fished it's nuts off '.Carp fed everywhere and the roach boys were left to look a bit silly.
Col Cook drew at the top end and started with a silver approach. After half an hour of roach bashing, the lure of a shiny new MAP 901 saw him go to the full 16metres. Fishing shallow with pellet, Col caught carp and big F1s regularly. A few chucks with a method in the last half hour topped up an already impressive net with some decent skimmers. Totalling a level 66lb, his catch was enough for victory. Well done Col.
At the other end of the lake was Ian Simpson. He too fished 16metres and had an assortment of carp, F1s and silvers which went 58lb 12oz at the scales and secured the runner-up berth. Consistent as ever, a great effort Simo.
John 'Sumo' Edwards did incredibly well to end up with a net of mainly quality carp. Every time I looked up, he was doing something different. In fact, it looked like he didn't know what he was doing. One minute he was chucking the tip, the next he was roach fishing. Then it was carp on the deck, then pellet shallow. He managed to keep fish of some description coming to the net and ended up with a level 55lb, and a well earned podium spot.
Other noteable weights came from Dave Norman, with an unlucky 54lb 12oz, Yozzer with a mostly roach catch weighing 46lb 08oz , and Pato with another net of decent carp for 45lb 12oz .
Another interesting day at Conwy, and well worth the journey for the sport on offer. With the money saved on petrol when we go to Lingmere every winter weekend, it's got to merit a visit.
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Great fishing by sounds of it, gutted I missed it. Well done to all who framed. Agree with you on the fact that it merits a visit with the money we save going to Lingmere. I can deffo see more visits on the cards. Well done fellas, 66lb plus great backups, can't argue with that this time of year.
ReplyDeleteRoach fishing? Isn't that what people do to come last in section?
ReplyDeleteYozzer, you should know better there are carp pegs you just have to fish for carp on and yours was one of them......everywhere else Yoz it!!!! Mega roach net though......all credit to ya!
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