Low-Light DSLR Photography

Wet wet wet

Lake: HFF Specimen Lake

Swim: Bus stop RHS

Date: 24th August 2013.

Session Length: 24hrs 7am - 7am.

Weather: Based upon MET office data 23 degrees Celsius wet bulb  88%RH day 17 degrees Celsius wet bulb  74%RH  night.

Party: Mark Adams & Richard Short (Me)

 

Starting at 7 am prompt we were given the grace from mother nature with at least an hour or so without any rain at all although we knew the forecast predicted constant heavy rain until Sunday 3am and it was delivered.

 

We set up and fished without baitboats and baited simply as little cloud or particle bait would retain its original position.  We were however aware that the water was suitably coloured therefore bright colours may well play a good part in the strategies.  It was raining continually!!!!!

 

Following an initial bait plan little changed and after resting the bus stop double swims (me on RHS) I decided to test the rear of the island stalking but to no avail.

 

Once returned (after baiting the furthest most) channel between the island and the far bank catapulted with 4mm carp pellet and Mainline Activ-Maple8 tipped with matching hook bait a clockwork orange pop-up from the closest bank a well placed bait complete with matching PVA solid bag rested from circa. 13:00 til 15:00 when bang a rapidly increasing run started! Noting the weather had not desisted this 21lb beautiful French common was tamed to the net in full rain downpour.

 

 

Thereafter, yet another common was caught in the early evening on the same bait and same location with a little and often loose feed baiting strategy; 24lb with a scar 2/3rd of the way along (possibly signs of a sporning wound slowly repairing).

 

 

A fellow angler appeared later in the evening with a request for a photo of a lovely 27lb fish in swim 1 however from the bus stop end activity wasn't far away with Mark having  a slight bobbin lift which resulted in a full run and a catch of a cracking 27lb mirror on Stickybaits Krill from the LHS bus stop swim.

 

At 03:00 (in the still constantly pouring hard rain) I dashed out of the bivvy (totally dazed from mid sleep) to a close in (circa 20ft) from the bank run which took line close to the island and back; this UK PB was netted and weighed in at 34lb 2oz. which fell to a CC Moore N Gage XP pop up tipped boilie with maize loose feed and a small bag of 4 or 5 boilies.

 

 

One of the wettest and craziest weathers I have fished in and one of the happiest days in my UK angling; HFF speci lake  has done it again!!!!