Renny Carp big lake 18/8/12

My friend Andy and I had a chance to pop down Renny Lake for a couple of hours. I picked him put at 6 after going for a MacDonald’s coffee of course and we fished 7 until 12, as he had to go to work.

It had rained heavy during the night and was still raining when we got to the lake at 6.30am, but is stopped shortly after we got there, most of the morning was overcast. 

We had a look around all 3 lakes before we started fishing to find 1 dead carp (about 3lb) and a small dead silver in the match lake, the electric fence was sparking round the original small lake and the big carp lake appeared to be ok, but 2 dead carp floated past later.

I fished using my Garbolino 9ft Super Squad Picker with a Preston 15g Banjo feeder filled with Ringers method mix and added micro pellets, I used a size 18 pre tied Preston quickstop 4” hair rig with double sweetcorn and I fished to an island.




The lake fished really well and I was on to my 11^th carp by the time Andy (on the peg next to me) had landed his first carp. However, after I set him up on a method feeder he started to catch.

For myself it fished really well and I pulled in some 19 carp about the 1lb mark and Andy trailed a little behind with 11 carp, also around the 1lb mark. Though I have to mention that although I had a nice mornings fishing, the stamp of the carp was poor with lots of the fish having marks, scars and some open wounds.

I probable will pop back to Renny to fish the small lake, but I will wait until the 6 weeks holidays are over and the kids back at school.