A Friend of mine managed to get there before me and dropped me a text to say it was quite. To my surprise when i reached the lake, the shallower bottom end was free apart from my mate...winner. I dropped my gear off in my preferred peg where I'd had some a amazing sessions over the years feeling extremely confident as the carp boshed out all over us! Before I'd even had a chance to get my gear set up my friend next door was away with a nice old scaley low 20lb mirror. I flicked my rods out over to the spots i knew the fish patrolled and baited both rods with the brilliant mixed particle and a scattering of boilie. The left rod was on my all time favourite rig, a simple bottom bait trimmed down with a trimmed down pop up on top, simple! The right was on a balanced tiger nut blow rig, the TNT pots are amazing if our into using tiger nutsI


love fishing with tiger nuts and been able to use a white tiger nut over a normal one is a real edge in my eyes. Simply drilled out with some cork to balance them out and your onto a winner! The evening drifted by quickly as we sat there drinking brews watching the carp top all around us, a hot topic of the conversation was the known few commons that's are upper 20 sometimes pushing over the 30lb barrier swimming around in front of us. I'd also just had some custom built rods made and made a suggestion that it would be nice to christen them with one of the commons I'd wanted for all these years, we joked as having new gear had always been a curse for me in the past.
After a decent night sleep i was awoken at first light by a couple of bleeps on the delks, i stood next to my rods and could see the line twitching. I hit the rod and reeled In for about 20 yards before connecting with a carp, fish on!!! E fish quickly head straight for the rushes on either side of my peg, at first the fish felt small as it was shaking its head from left to right as I tried to stop it was doing me in the rushes. This was till it rolled infront of me and I seen the length of the fish i was connected too. Straight away I knew i had one of the commons I'd wanted so badly over the years, my heart was in my mouth as i played the fish for a further 10 minutes until it finally slipped over the net cord. Buzzing was an understatement!! The fish went 28lb 12oz, after weighing her and doing some pictures in the early morning summer sun


we slipped her back and reminisced on the conversation the night before and couldn't believe I'd finally had one of the big commons. The fish was in amazing condition and I finally felt like i could say I've accomplished what I wanted from the lake Over the next 24 I managed a further 5 fish,they were all taken on the great mixed particle mix,

around 5k of it in total. This particular mix has everything a carp could ever wish for and screams out attraction to any passing fish. Using this mixed with the TNT nuts i think you'll catch anywhere if you put it in the right place. Anyway, that's it from me.

Hope you enjoy the read and i'll see you again soon.
Jim