Autumn Success at close Range

After what has been a busy summer season of fishing, autumn has inevitably crept in and the nights are becoming longer with the days shorter and cooler early morning temperatures felt by all on the bank. I have been targeting this water since October last 2013. The lake is very flat with almost no features. The lake is circular in shape and it gradually steps down slowly from 1ft in the margins to around 3.5 metres in the centre. The lake was a brick field quarry and in 1911 a sailing club was established. Since then the lake has never run dry and is home to big carp as well as big grass carp.

Margin fishing is my favourite type of fishing and I have always had good results when fishing the margins. This past weekend proved yet again just how deadly they can be and also how easily over looked they are by other anglers. I chose my peg immediately after seeing an overhanging willow to the right of the peg. I immediately went out on the boat and found that it was 1.7m deep directly underneath the branches. 2 metres off the branches the depth dropped down to 2.5metres and was a firm gravel bottom with a thin layer of silt over the top.

With one rod placed just off the front of the willow I had my other two rods in deep water and at range. On the first evening the margin rod was the only rod to see any action in the form of a double common and this lovely dark common going 22lb on the nose on the Reubens.

The long range rods saw a bit of action throughout the session with 3 carp banked, the best of which was this fat upper double common.