Good Things Come To Those Who Bait...

After pre-feeding my swim everyday for a week at a local municipal water – Emmarentia Dam my mate Ryan and I arrived on Saturday morning at 3.00am with worried expressions.














We casted in a our single hookbaits on each rod to around 40 metres out and baited up over each rod with 10 boilies using the throwing stick.

Fishing was slow as expected as a cold front had pulled in the day before but Ryan and I pushed forward with Ryan losing a good common on a buoy after a decent fight mid morning.

Shortly afterward I managed a 16lb 6oz Common on a Pineapple Fluro pop up tipped off with a white artificial sweetcorn.

At 16.30 I had another screaming take so typical of Emmarentia carp on a Monster Tigernut pop up tipped off with a yellow artificial sweetcorn... after going on no less than 4 long hard runs the fish seemed done and ready for the net.

Once on the unhooking mat and the fish taken out of the net a truly special fish was revealed... What must have been one of the old Granddads of the lake, this fish seemed blind in the left eye which was completely whitened over. The tips of the fins white with old age.

22lb 9oz and my first 20 from the water... All in all between the two of us we managed 4 takes and 3 fish. A good result after the weather took a turn for the worst and although the bigger fish weren't around we know they are there and its just a matter of time until they grace the folds of our nets....