Braving the Elements

Sunday was maybe not the best day to set off on another one of our fishing adventures, before first light the weather can be a little misleading, what seamed to be quite a calm and mild morning, turned into a really cold and blustery day. Before setting off down the M6 to Cudmore, we loaded up with the tackle and I grabbed a small beach style sun and wind shelter, to maybe complement my umbrella and to keep the tackle dry in case of a down pour.

Grim was not the word it was a tremendous struggle just to set up. I lost another umbrella spike to the wind as my brolly was turned inside out. The small wind shelter proved to be a great addition to my kit after loading it with all our tackle, I could just about stop it from taking to the sky!
So the fishing wasn't the most comfortable session we have ever had, but despite the bad conditions we still managed to get of few Pike on the bank.




This week our friend Liam came along to bag himself his first pike of the season, and Cudmore's predator lake Tara did not take long to oblige. A ledgered dead bait grabbed Liam a 5lb 14 jack by around 8:30 and it wasn't long after that my float buried and I landed a really lively 3lb Pike.

 After catching a great 12lber for my first Pike I was a little disappointed at the size of my fish and confident of another I didn't take a picture, just slipped him quickly back with the instructions to go and find his mum for me.
Toby fancied his chances of catching a cheeky winter Carp and they run to a good size in Tara. Armed with a new rig to try out, it only took a a couple of casts with a few stringers of loose feed to tempt a beautiful 7lb mirror. Chuffed with his catch Toby got back to the more standard winter quarry and lumped out a float fished Herring.

A little salmon oil must have worked its wonders as Toby's float started to disappear, on what was a really choppy day watching for bites on the float was pretty hard work, but there was no mistaking that this was a fish as the float dipped under again and Toby hit into a lovely 5lb Pike. We managed to bank another small jack before the day was out. All in all a good day 4 pike banked and a cheeky winter carp.

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