South Cliff Farm Fishery ( A15 North of Lincoln )
My second visit to South Cliff farm fishery.....a week after my first trip rewarded me with 6 carp to 14Ib and 2 bream of about a pound each. I decided to fish on the nearest bank to the car park, the opposite side to the week before.
I set up two rods to fish with boilies on the bottom and one rod was used to present dog biscuits on the surface; which was very successful a week earlier.
The carp started taking biscuits from the surface straight away and the reel on my dog biscuit rod soon burst into life as the baitrunner began peeling off line at great speed. The result was the first fish of the day......a 10 Ib 8oz mirror carp.
I re-casted the dog biscuit rod to a similar position to the first take and 10 minutes later the baitrunner burst into life yet again with another mirror carp.
The next two takes on the surface rod yielded two bream, both around the 2.5 to 3 Ib mark.......and for a while the bream in the lake were messing around with the dog biscuits, but they were quite difficult to hook on the size 10 hair rig.
Time out to take a few pictures of the venue, the latter showing the three rod set up.....
I set up two rods to fish with boilies on the bottom and one rod was used to present dog biscuits on the surface; which was very successful a week earlier.
The carp started taking biscuits from the surface straight away and the reel on my dog biscuit rod soon burst into life as the baitrunner began peeling off line at great speed. The result was the first fish of the day......a 10 Ib 8oz mirror carp.
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| 10 Ib 8oz mirror carp taken at 9am |
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| 11 Ib mirror carp |
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| Add caption3 Ib Bream |
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| Looking south at South Cliff |
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| Looking straight across to the far bank.......you can just about see my red/orange float with the dog biscuit rig. |
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| The rod held vertically was used to present a dog biscuit directly on the surface, with a hair rig hanging down from the main line to the float. This enables you to present a floating bait with NO line on the surface around the bait......this really enhances the number of takes due to helping to increase the confidence of the fish. After a short period of mis-takes the reel screamed off again and yielded a 18 Ib common carp... |
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| Fin perfect 18 Ib common carp |
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| The 4th carp, smallest fish of the session, and the only one taken off the bottom on a boilie. A 6 Ib mirror carp. I had literally just unhooked the small mirror carp when the surface rod screamed off yet again......the reward, the 5th carp, the biggest carp of the day, weighing in at 18 Ib 4oz |
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| 18 Ib 4oz, fin perfect common carp.......I was happier than I looked!! The next few hours led to 6 more carp being taken off the surface on dog biscuit, the boilie rods had no more takes at all. Here are the pictures of the fish...... |
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| 13 Ib Mirror Carp |
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| 8 Ib Common carp |
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| 10 Ib 7oz common |
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| 8 Ib 12oz common |
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| 12 Ib 4oz Mirror |
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| 13 Ib tiger striped, fin perfect mirror carp |
Eight of the eleven carp were doubles, with two of them being 18 Ib.........I will be definitely hunting for a twenty pound fish on the surface in future weeks, and it will be interesting to see how this lake fishes during the winter, when the carp get their heads down.
