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Colebrook Fishery
Session
Part 2 by Tristan Cooper
W
e ventured up
to Colebrook
fishery in
Devon over
the
Hall o w e e n
weekend in search of a Halloween
carp. I chose Colebrook after having a
super successful session landing
‘Chunks’ at 25lb 12oz and ‘Smudge’
at 29lb 12oz previously.
We originally planned to get to the
lake on Friday night but as the winter
nights has drawn in we decided to
skip setting up in the dark and get
down to the lake early Saturday
morning.
Once we got to the lake, we quickly
unloaded the van and barrowed all
our stuff down to the swim. I choose
the same swim as I fished last time
but this time I was sharing it with my
30 Big Carp
dad who wanted to fish the right
hand side so I decided to fish the left
hand side as it is a double swim.
I quickly set all my rods up with a
drop off inline leader fishing a Ronnie
rig which is the tactics which caught
me Smudge last session, one was
rigged up with 2 pieces of Pop up
corn and the other was a pink fluro
cell 14mm pop up. I know these baits
work well up here by speaking to the
people that have fished here longer
than me and from first-hand experience. I casted the first rod over to the
far bank, attached by rig filled the
baiting spoon with my rig in and freebies and then carefully pushed the
bait under the tree on my left. The 2nd
rod I done an underarm flick minding
the trees overhead and hagging over
the lake and the bait landed perfectly
under a big overhanging branch
where I know the fish love to feed. I
catapulted some bait around it and I
was finally fishing.
The afternoon passed extremely
quickly and before I knew it the night
was already settling in and the temperature started to plummet. I didn’t
see a fish going into dark so I thought
this might not be a very productive
session but thinking back to last time
this is how it played out going into
dark.
The night was passing quickly and
quietly and at 1am the storm hit with
torrential rain 40mph+ winds and me
being in my small aqua atom bivvy
was definitely feeling the effects. The
storm lasted till about 6am and I was
woken up to the sight of puddles
around my bedchair coming from my
rods. The fish are known to be caught
in between rain spells so as soon as
