Part 1 breaking my P/B.

It's Saturday 26th October and I'm out fishing for the first time  in months due to holidays and sickness, it's a windy day and  spitting with rain but it's quite mild for this time of year, I'm at Framfields park fisherys in uckfield East Sussex, I'm fishing spring lake on the complex which is stuffed with carp but holds some very big perch and that's what I'm here for.

My tackle comprises of two Matt Hayes all rounder rods which 

I couple with my shimano baby bait runners reels loaded with 8lb dawia sensor line, my end tackle is a korum run rig 1/2 ounce bomb and hook link wise 6-8 inches of Berkeley trilene fluorocarbon in 6lb breaking strain with a

size 6 drennen super specialist hook very simple but strong and effective.

Bait wise was simple krilled prawns and plain prawns plus maggots which I scented with Archie Braddocks perch magic looking good.

Now to get down to the nitty gritty of the story, it doesn't start very good because I set my alarm for 5am but i didn't get up until gone 6am, just shows you how much I wanted to go, but I got myself up and loaded the car and off I went, it's only a 45 minute drive if that ,and I arrived to find the car park full, there a match on the other lake the bailiff said thank god for that I said, but to be quite honest I could of turned round and gone home, I didn't feel wright but I told myself 

I've got to get on with it your be ok just take your time and relax, little did I know how my day was going to pan out.

Spring lake I'm fishing is about 3 acre in size and has two island these two island split in the middle of the lake,it's at this point is where I'm going to fish.

So now I'm in my swim with my rods 90% set up all I got to do is attach my hook links and hit the spots where I think mister and misses stripey live first rod is flicked out to within a couple of inches of the island great cast is my luck changing nope, place my rod on its rest clipped up my bobbing and my batteries are flat in my chub T3's boll###s, not been fishing for a while I forgot to check if  they worked, so now I've go to keep one eye on the first rod while I cast out the second rod.

Now as I said before this place is stuffed with carp and my first rod burst into life as the second hit the water so I put that rod on to the rest and done battle with the first, a small carp of about 5lb, now when I checked the second rod that was bending into a funny shape so carp on again about the same size as the first,

Two carp in the net, I'm happy it's a fish or two but it's not what I'm after so I unhooked the fish and get the rods back out, it continues like this for the next few hours, all the time I'm throwing maggots down to the old reed bed to my left 

Little did I know but the maggots I was feeding to my left we're stiring mummer perch into action but I persisted on the prawns krilled or natural one in open water the other by the island carp after carp after carp you get the message by now I am fed up with bloody small carp

so I brought in the open water rod and put a float on with a 3lb hook link and size 16 hook, first chuck I caught a perch

Well let's try that again, in the mean time the wind is picking up and the rain is getting a bit heavier so time for my new umbrella 50" korum fibreglass, put it in one position get comfortable and the wind changes direction, now I got to move it as the wind is blowing towards me causing me alsorts of problem, while this is happening I get another carp on me float bloody hell I'm not enjoying myself now but I'm going to stick with it

while I land that carp I get another on the prawn rod, I lost that one, so now again no rods in water right I'm going to sort the brolly out, got the brolly all pin down chair already and now I think I'm comfortable I leave the prawn rod out because I going to put a live bait on well that was the idea three hours later I couldn't catch a cold the swim was dead so with my float rod I wandered down a couple of swims and eventually I caught a small 3" roach yessssss come on, hooked it up and flicked it out just down to my left, it only been out a minute and the bobbing hit the rod blank result not massive but a another stripey.

It look like I'm only going to catch on live baits because after catching a few more small roach and sticking them back on the hook I caught more stripeys😃

All the time they are getting bigger, little did I know what was going to happen next.

I'm only fishing one rod now down to my left with live baits with a sprinkling of Braddocks maggots, after a hour I catch a good size live bait and send it back out down the depths sit back in my chair and ready myself for another perch, but nothing happens for at least hour, so now  I'm comfortable and dozzing, let's set the scene the wind blowing I'm tired and the bobbing twitching all of a sudden the wind changes direction and blows my brolly inside out and breaks it, as that happens my bobbing shot up I move forward to the front of my chair to get ready to strike just as the line starts to peel off my reel my chair snaps and I end up in the mud now with a broken brolly flapping in the wind, I was rolling round on the floor trying to get myself up I manage to grabbed the rod and struck on my knees yes fish on and it feels a good one but what's this I can't reel in the bobbing has wrap around the line and tangled f@#k me what else is going to happen, so now I'm going to have to hand line this fish in, successfully scooping up a personal best fish of      2lb 7oz over the moon.

So one broken brolly and chair muddy arse birds nest in my main line complete mayhem everywhere, but am I happy you bet your bottom dollar I am, I stuck with it after all the things that happened I carried on and was rewarded, and I got my fishing mojo back, but I'm still on the hunt for that four pounder so until the next episode tight lines 😛