April 19

Friday couldn't come quick enough I was gagging to get the rods out me,Brian,Dai and dafydd went up to  Bradleys lake again for the second weekend in a row. It's a massive lake with a few biggies and plenty of small ones to go for but there are loads of crayfish which are a pain. Me and dadydd arrived at the lake around midday the weather was warm and a nice wind blowing. I set up in the teeth of the wind and away from most of the angling pressure. I used a choddy on the one rod with a Celtic baits ss pop up pink dumbell I sticked out half a kilo of My homemade boilies around the choddy  . On the other 2 I used My homemade scopex and coconut bottom baits that  were fished over spod mix ,consisting of hemp, boilies ,tigers  and some good old vitalin.
As the night went on nothing happened  and I woke up at 9 am boiling hot. The sun was beaming . It was a nice bit of spring sunshine for a change
Me and dafydd joined a angling club in the cotswolds on the friday so we thought we would go and do a night over on the big-pit to have a look round and get a little heads up about the place.it is 100 acres plus and this is the lake me and dafydd will be targeting this year. It's a low stock water with a few big fish in there, but finding them is going to be the hard bit. I did see a big dead pike in the shallows so could be worth a go in winter for pike. Everything is a bit quiet up there no one really tells you a lot and no one really knows how many fish are in there , nor the size of the  carp in there.   Hopefully me or dafydd will get amongst them this coming season . We have a lot of learning to do up there.
I will report back next week we are going up for a 48hr session on friday  . Tight lines robby

Had a day on baden halls middle pool not fishing for big fish average fish about 8lb. The lake was very pressured about 60 pegs and it looked like the lake was full i haven't fished like this for a long time had 8 fish out smallest 6lb 11 to biggest 10lb 3 about 60lb of fish all together and lost 2. I had 1 on a 1ft zig with celticbait pop up on. Had 1 on a stiff hinged rig with a celtic bait bait pop up on.  And the rest fell to 14mm celtic bait ss boilies on a simple knotless knot rig over a scattering of ss freebies here is a couple of pictures of the better ones.

Three Celtic Bait users have 24 hrs on Bradleys

Brian Robby & Dan
Had a good 24 hrs on Bradley's which ended with Brian having 4 Carp Dan on a tench and Robby just missing out on a lake that has not had any fish on the bank for a long while then Brian finds the fish and has 4 on the bank in 3 hrs two on Celtic Bait Pop ups and two on the Beast Feast,  the fish went to
13 lb 3 oz

14Lb dead

20Lb 9 oz

21lb 1 oz

Dai has a couple on the G-Nut

Dai has a good 24 hr session on the G-Nut with over 10 Carp with the biggest just over 14 Lb 

Robby

I just got home from a grueler of a session. I went down to lamby lake for the last session of the 2012/2013 season .  I went down on Thursday afternoon after work.  as I looked over the lake from the road I could only see one person on the lake and that was My mate dadydd. It was soon to change because of the bank holiday. I was using celtic baits g_nut and celtic ss pop ups, anyway nothing happened for me the first night but My mate dadydd had a 20lb common at 4.30am so he woke me up for photos and then he woke me up again at 8 he only gone and had a 28lb mirror known as "the tank". By this time I was trying My best to snare one . As I've blanked for two weeks on the trot. Dafyydd was on the spicy sausage pop ups again so I jumped on the bandwagon and stuck one on a choddy and cast it out near to were he had his fish from. Weather was lovely bit cold but sunny, spring is slowly coming to us at long last .  another nite went on but I couldn't even get a beep, yet dadydd who was fishing next to me went on to have another 28lb mirror known as "3 scale " .  So he was well happy n I was pulling My hair out by then. I stayed for 4 nights and blanked hard I was on the fish but just couldn't get a take but that's the way it goes . The lads opposite me and dafydd  were also catching haveing 3 high doubles to 19lb.  Gota bit of wrk to do now while the lake is shut. Me and dafydd got the Welsh carp comp at the end of may so a bit of pre-baiting is on the cards..
Tight lines robby