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 PB: 26lb 11oz Sponsor: Not Ron Thompson! Todays Feature: Panshill Wood Fishery Dan “Not John Wilson” and myself, The Crap Angler went for a short evening session at Panshill Wood Fishery, near Bicester in Oxfordshire. Panshill Wood Fishery has four lakes, these are Pans Lake, Hill Lake, Wood Lake and Fishery Lake. We arrived at about 5pm on Friday 29th May 2009 and fished the specimen lake : Hill Lake. This small lake contains mixed fish up to 2lb and carp from 14-32lb. This was the first time that I had fished this year and my first cast was straight into a bush on the left hand corner of one of the islands, typical! So after redoing my rig I cast out again with a kobra method feeder filled with Special G Groundbait and 2 14mm raspberry boilies. On my second rod I fished a 20mm pineapple plus boilie topped with a small bit of fake sweetcorn. I fished this in the margins to my right in a patch of shadow cast on the water’s surface. I missed a run on this rod after about half and hour and so reset this rod to pretty much the same spot and topped the swim up with a few smaller 15mm pineapple plus boilies. After an hour or so, maybe a bit longer my left hand rod screamed off and I struck into a carp. Well, technically it was a carp but on landing it, Dan would not stop laughing. We didn’t weigh it but this mirror carp was probably half a pound and that is being generous. I think Dan might still be laughing now such was his amusement at my “specimen”. About half an hour later Dan came over for a chat, but his approach was fairly vocal, you could hear him chuckling from about 10 metres away and it turned into an overpowering laugh in your face once he arrived! Suddenly, my right hand bite alarm started buzzing, I struck into this fish and straight away I knew it was bigger than the previous fish! After a bit of a struggle and a bit of panic from me that my clutch might have been set a bit tight Dan landed it in my large carp net. Then, Dan started laughing again, but a bit louder this time. I was surprised as the fish looked pretty good to me definitely a double figure fish, then it clicked. The pole had broken off of the landing net, so the net was just sitting in the water with no pole, I managed to grab just the net and we took the fish over to the unhooking mat. This common carp weighed exactly 13lb although we were both thought it looked a bit bigger, but the scales don’t lie! I didn’t get any bites after this Common Carp and we stayed fishing until about 9.30pm. As we left Dan was still laughing, this could have been due to my “specimen carp” or the 6 Stella’s he’d drunk either way I wasn’t bothered and actually had the last laugh because Dan blanked again!!! Panshill Wood Fishery, Oxfordshire aim to cater for all aspects of fishing. There lakes are listed below with the fish they hold. Mixed fish up to 2lb ideal for beginners (very small lake) Pans Lake : Carp to 5lb (small lake) Wood Lake : Mixed fish i.e: Carp, Tench, Bream, Rudd, Roach, Chub from 8oz-14lb Hill Lake : Mixed fish up to 2lb and Carp from 14-32lb So how I managed to catch a 13lb carp is just typical! There is also a Café serving hot and cold food a tackle/bait shop and even accomodation is available plus disabled toilet facilities. More info: www.panshillwoodfishery.com Panshill Wood Fishery Nr Murcott Nr Bicester Oxon OX5 2RG Tel : Ian 07740 619 991 Tel : Tracey 07740 707 795 |
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