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The anglers have been gone for a few weeks now and I'm ready missing them. i had seen a few carp showing mid water in front of the Boathouse and in the  snags at the back  of 61. So I decided to put some bait out where I had seen  the carp showing on  monday morning, I could not fish until Wednesday as i was very busy netting my other lakes. I kept  the bait going in very small amounts regular as i could  in between  my nettings and Wednesday couldn't com quick enough. Wednesday morning I was up at 6-30am and raring  to get going. I tied some new rigs up Tuesday night in the house where it was nice and warm. I was going to be using the new hooks from Ace. I just can't tell you how sharp and strong these hooks  are. i have been using these hooks for nearly 2  years now, before they were released. and I haven't dropped a fish . As a Jeweller I am very fussy about my hooks. these are definitely the best hooks i have ever used. My rigs for this session  are  ''hooks'' Ace short curve shank size 4's , Ace kickers line aligner and my hook link Ace camo core silt, I love using camo core  as when  you strip the outer coating the inner is still camo, not like most hook links, just one colour!, my  hook links were 10'' long an 2'' haris and of course 10oz leads in the snags. Two of my rods were going to be in the snags and one in open water. Alot more carp have come from  open water this season, but I do like my snag fishing and I felt confedent  of taking a fish out of the snags. I would only be fishing two baits stringers and just a small  amount of pellet over my hook baits. I didn't want to over feed the swim as I only. had  48hrs to fish.  My first fish  came at 10-30am on thursday mornig from the  snags a        46-02lb mirror and  there  was no more action the rest of the day I felt that with the water temp well down and the air temp at 0 at night the action would be between 10-3pm during the day if at all. I keeped the pellet going in every 2-3 hours in  very small amounts with a spomb and felt I still could  take one more  fish if I stayed on my game. I re- baited about 4pm and again only  2 bait stringers the traps were set it was up to the carp now. Friday night the tempture went down to -2 and I was now up against it. But like I always tell my anglers if your baits are in the water you always have a chance. It was now 11am and I really thought I had missed my chance as I had to go and  deliver some fish and I should have packed up a hour ago, just as I was about to reel in my rods I had a drop back on my left hand rod from open water. As I picked up my rod I thought I  had been cut of by a pike as there was just loads of  slack line, then just as I was thinking to myself  B------  the  line   tighten up and the rod bent over and I was into what ended up to be my 57th 50  a cracking 54-06lb mirror what a end to a cracking 48 hour session.

Tight lines

Commander Steve Bond ( RNLI ) 

I'm the Boss and I 'm hard. (BOSSARD)