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 Angler File: The Crap Angler UK PB: 26lb 11oz Common Carp Sponsor: Not Ron Thompson Todays Feature: Run Rabbit Run A little later in the week we returned to Nellbridge Coarse Fishery. This time we fished the opposite side of the lake. Dan "NotJohnWilson" arrived before myself, The Crap Angler and setup in the swim where I caught my personal best 26lb 11oz Common Carp. I opted to fish the swim to Dan's left giving me an island to fish and also some open water to the left of the island. On my first cast I managed to catch a tree! I cast tight to the left-hand corner of the island and the bait dropped into the water but my line from casting had looped over a branch slightly. I tried all I could to pull it out of the tree, as my bait was just where I wanted it! However, I did lose the rig and for the rest of the day I could see my leader hanging in the tree. About 3 hours after the previous incident neither Dan or I had even had a bite so I decided to move my right-hand rod to the right-hand side of the island. A perfect cast was landed. About 15 minutes later Dan wandered over and asked my why there were 3 boilies in a pva bag with a hooklink with the end loop broken, in the tree behind me. I was unsure, then I turned around, looked and realised they were my boilies and hooklink from my "pefect" cast! Dan couldn't stop laughing, but I was just glad he noticed it otherwise I would have been fishing without bait for a fair few hours. When I brought my line in Dan laughed even more when he saw that it really was my rig that was stuck in the tree! On the subject of bizarre incidents, I was standing next to "Not John Wilson" looking at a spot in the margins. Suddenly, a rabbit ran from out of nowhere, cut across infront of both of us and jumped into the margin spot where Dan had baited up earlier. I joked that obviously the rabbit couldn't resist the smell of his spod mix. The strange thing was once it had landed in the water with a splash there was no other sound of movement. I assumed it had sunk like a stone as I don't think that rabbits can swim. We kept looking in the margins and finally spotted the rabbit. It was submerged from just below it's neck. I tried to poke it gently with a stick, but couldn't quite reach it. Then suddenly it leapt out of the lake and ran up the bank behind us and towards the railway line, must just have been a suicidal bunny. The incidents above where the highlights of the day as both of us blanked. We had a few blips on our alarms, but no runs or anything of much excitement. Hopefully next time... |
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