ouchthathurt
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After my son lost a large cat at the net last week, I felt the need to avenge him on his behalf, so with a fresh bag of premiers finest superaminos base mix arriving, I set about knocking up a few kg of boilies, using the aforementioned basemix with regular sense appeals, shellfish sense appeals, salmon oil and cream palatant, the end result was a spicy/fishy concoction that to be honest I was a bit unsure of, but time would tell!
I set up in catfish corner on main lake at Hawkhurst, the swim of my sons epic and ultimately futile battle and clipped up both rods to the gully at the back of the larger island. I gave it a good hit of bait as it was fizzing like a jacuzzi, two stringers attached to slip D rigs on helicopter rigs soon found themselves in the pond and I settled back under the brolly listening to the rain.
I quickly had a take, which kited 20ft but when I struck, there was nothing there! This was followed by another belting run which was a 16lb common that didn’t want its photo taken! Next run produced a loss, the fish kited around the back of a smaller island and slipped the hook. I then had a twitchy take followed by a savage drop back which resulted in a mutant 18lb common carp
next take was a twitchy drop back followed by a one note screamer, which turned out to be a 16lb catfish… a nice start, but I didn’t feel the boy avenged just yet 
this one tangled both rods, which necessitated a complete retackle of both, so that done, I got them both out there again and tried to get some sleep, it was 6am by now! At 8am I had a blistering take, I hoped it was a large carp, but after a powerful scrap, that took me all over the place, a 28lb catfish rolled into the net. 
Justice was finally served… also my son had lost his scales on the last trip, I found them in the long grass! So as a final nod to the boy, I weighed the cat on his scales…
Now I just have to tell him!
The new and improved bait seemed to be a hit too!
I set up in catfish corner on main lake at Hawkhurst, the swim of my sons epic and ultimately futile battle and clipped up both rods to the gully at the back of the larger island. I gave it a good hit of bait as it was fizzing like a jacuzzi, two stringers attached to slip D rigs on helicopter rigs soon found themselves in the pond and I settled back under the brolly listening to the rain.
I quickly had a take, which kited 20ft but when I struck, there was nothing there! This was followed by another belting run which was a 16lb common that didn’t want its photo taken! Next run produced a loss, the fish kited around the back of a smaller island and slipped the hook. I then had a twitchy take followed by a savage drop back which resulted in a mutant 18lb common carp
next take was a twitchy drop back followed by a one note screamer, which turned out to be a 16lb catfish… a nice start, but I didn’t feel the boy avenged just yet this one tangled both rods, which necessitated a complete retackle of both, so that done, I got them both out there again and tried to get some sleep, it was 6am by now! At 8am I had a blistering take, I hoped it was a large carp, but after a powerful scrap, that took me all over the place, a 28lb catfish rolled into the net. Justice was finally served… also my son had lost his scales on the last trip, I found them in the long grass! So as a final nod to the boy, I weighed the cat on his scales…Now I just have to tell him!
The new and improved bait seemed to be a hit too!
, added stuff to the carping thread to which might hold more interest to you .