26/08/2023
Last carp of Lake Cavagnac.
It’s fridaymorning around 10 o’clock when we start fishing again. We are on 39 carp , and from home they are pushing us to go to fifty….so eleven to go. But because of the long drive home the next day we said, 23.00h this evening the rods go out.
It’s hot that friday, and with the rise of the temperatures the biting drops.
But just as all the other days the carp come together and by 13.00h we are on 8 to go. We have to wait for 16.00h to be on 6 to go….and in that time I lost a real big one. I got it out of the pads, but after a minute or two in open water, the hook just drops….leaving me in disbelief. Start of the evening it’s again three in under an hour, and just before dark we are on 3 to go for fifty carp that week. It starts raining and in a dry moment just for 23.00h Patrick takes out his rods. I can’t….I just can’t. The last carp I caught that evening was a 9kg common….and it felt like I needed a rematch with something bigger to cover the loss of that big one in the afternoon earlier that day.
So it’s 23.00h, my three rods are still in. Three to go for fifty. I give it till midnight I promise myself. 23.10 a beep on the right, 23.15 a beep on the middle….they’re there….23.20 the middle rod bends down and I’m already on it. A heavier weight is trying to reach the pads, but the technique we did all week to stop them works again and the fish turns and comes my way. With an easy fight I land a big long commoncarp in the net. I gently put it in a sling….and at exactly 00.00h I take out the last two rods. We stop at 48 carp….what a week that was!
And 1-9 we go back for a weekend to deliver our custom made boilies! 💪🏻