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I spent a week not far from Fordingbridge, Hampshire and staying in a small water mill. I had been going out in the evenings fly fishing the small chalk steams, for brown trout and small chubb.
I had streams and water all around our digs with these lovely brown trout up to 2lb, Greyling and Chubb and as much as i was enjoying the trout action, i wanted to try something different !!
On the Thursday of my week i popped to have a look at a fishery just down the road called Lakefarm.
It was very tidy, not a massive lake but could hold about 15 anglers easy, i was met by the owner so i asked him about the lake as you do.
I was told it had a good head of carp up to 30lb and was heavily stocked with a lot of fish around the 4-8lb mark, i told him i wanted to fish with my fly rod for the carp, to the reply of a slow "Really" !!
Well at Lakefarm a day ticket was £8.00 and the owner does not do evening ticket (this keeps the loud less serious anglers away) good idea i think.
Now i just wanted to get a quick fix fishing session as the time was 5pm and the lake closes at 7.30pm, no time for messing about.
The owner said " watch this " as he chucked in a round of bread in, well i have never seen so many carp swimming at this bread must have been 150 fish came from no where !!! i was smiling this is gonna be easy, just what i wanted.
Gear in hand i shot round to an open swim, so i could get the fly rod moving, 6/7 wf line, 8lb carptech leader,Fox Armo hook, hair and a cut down artificial floating trout pellet.
My first cast the line lay lovely and gently the pellet fell, then BOOM !! it was off my first carp on a fly rod. This was great, i was loving it, just what i wanted on my holiday, as i landed a lovely Common about 4lb.
A handful of floating pellets went out to a Parana like frenzy and the fly rod was in action again, i would say on average the bait was in the water for no more than 10 secs before a fish would take.
So many carp in this water its crazy!! it must be in my top 5 of the the maddest two and a half hours fishing non stop i've ever had and my arm was starting to hurt.
Most of the fish i had where Commons and some where very long almost like wildies and the biggest one of the day was around the 6lb mark. It was great fun on the tackle and the way i fished for them, I ended up with about 40 fish in total.
If anybody ever wants to have a try at this with a fly rod for a day, its a good feel factor fishing session, find a heavy stocked lake and fill your boots.
Macca.
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