Lee Rogers

Lee Rogers made a move…..
I arrived on willows lake on Sunday with my mate Paul for a long awaited 5 night session. After walking around the lake to see what had been happening and what swims were available, I decided to fish peg 20 after Scott had finished his awesome session of big fish. I had a good lead around and decided to just fish single baits as the swim had been quiet for the last 48 hours with conditions expected to change to south westerly winds and a low pressure due on Wednesday. I expected the fish would turn back up. By Wednesday morning I had seen no signs of carp at all in the main body of the lake and nobody was catching except from the islands area so I decided to bring the rods in and go to peg 10, which I learned was being vacated at dinner. After having a chat with angler in there, he told me that he had a 45lb on Monday and lost a couple of big fish last night and they were still showing, so it was obvious the fish were still there. I dropped my bucket and made my move. Once I was set up Tom came round and kindly showed me a couple areas to fish to. I put a solid pva bag to the left spot and a single pineapple goo tigernut balanced with plastic maize to the right. It wasn’t long before the solid rod was off and after a short battle Tom netted my 1st fish which was Cut Tail at 38.06 I was buzzing. Throughout the evening and night I had banked 5 more stunning looking stockies to mid double and a 21lb off both areas so I was really pleased I had made the effort to move. So with 24 hours left of my session and the fish still showing in the area I stuck with the same tactics and produced a further 4 more stockies by the evening, but activity ceased and the fish stopped showing. I thought they had moved. At 1am I had a flying take on the tigernut and i lent into a heavy fish which had taken a bit of line and was heading down the channel. I kept steady pressure on to turn her. After a hard fight and a few scary moments I scooped the net under her, bit the line and looked at my prize which was definitely a lump. I put her on the matt and treated the hook mark with a little treatment and weighed her at 44lb. I retained her in deep water whilst I went to find somebody to take the pictures. Paddy in in peg 8 kindly agreed to do so. Paddy did an exceptional job with the pictures and orchestrated me through holding the fish as if it was a front cover shot for vogue magazine. That was my last fish of the session but to get a 40, a 30, a 20 and 9 stockies in the final 40 hours was brilliant. I would like to say thanks to Paddy for taking the pictures and also to Tom for the information and running an amazing well run water give yourself a pat on the back mate.
Well in Lee, see you next time,……