24/3/12

today i fished the middle lake at hockley, i was on peg 18 which is a good bream peg, it was very nice weather throughout the day as it was sunny all day. i started by setting up two pole kits for the sane line but with different elastic as there is a lot of carp in this lake, i fed tiger fish groundbait with lose maggot, corn and caster in with it, i straight away had a 11.5lb carp, i went in again on a maggot and had a good bream and i carried on catching good bream throughout the day but on ringers 4ml pellet, i found that the bream respond quickly to a bit of groundbait so i waited to when the bites slowed down before i fed more groundbait, i was fishing about 9m out towards a feature in the island, this is a very successful place in the peg, i did feed a margain but i felt no need to go and look to see if there was a fish there. At about half two the bream stopped so i chopped some maggot up in hope of getting some ide, i went in with a white maggot over the chopped maggot and after about 5 minutes i had a bite, my elastic went screaming out and the fish was staying very close to the bottom, from the glimpse i had i thought it might be a good barbel but i weren't sure, i used a puller kit to help get the fish in but when i had a full look at the fish i saw it was a good barbel, it turned out to be a good 6.5lb barbel, my total weight for the day was 43lb, i had 25lb of bream a 6.5lb barbel with the 11.5lb carp, this was one of the best days i have had for while and one which i never forget, especially because of my new personal record for a barbel, 6.5lb!