Creedy lakes



right hand  bank creedy lake

                 Welcome back to another blog this time I will be bring you a blog from a local lake called creedy in Devon which is a heavily stocked carp lake .It was about 10:30am on Wednesday the 4th of march 2015 the forecast was for a bright sunny day but a bit warmer than it had been how wrong were the forecasters again. It was a very cloudy over cast day with very little sun and a very strong ice cold eastly wind blowing across the lake .Creedy had not been open for long as it closes every year between the 1st of January until the 1 day of march but already on the first 3 days after opening already a couple of 20s had been caught and a few mid doubles I was buzzing and couldn't wait to get the rods out it had been about 4 years since I last fished creedy I could not  wait .We entered the car park paid for our day ticket loaded the barrow and we were through the gate the strong wind was blowing from the right hand bank up towards the boat house swim so with  the wind being so cold we decided to set up on the 2rd and 3rd peg on the right hand bank which was on the back of the wind  there were a couple more fishing the top of the right hand bank and into the waterfall so that was the reason we decided to fish here. I set the shelter up and unloaded the gear from the barrow into the shelter befor setting up anything else I mixed up half a kg of pellet half  kg of frozen corn and about 45 chopped duo boilies and fed a large bed of bait on a spot in front of me at about 12 meters or so this was the only spot I was going to feed at the other rod  was going to be  fished as a mobile approach and cast it around different areas of the swim and look for moving fish with a pva mesh bag. So with the one spot fed it was time to set the pod up and sort the rods out and get them on the spots . I was now going to set the rod up I was fishing a 1.5ft length off rig tubing on a lead safety clip with both the rods on a 1.5oz pear lead with the area I had fed I was going to fish a combi rig with 4 inches of floro carbon with a 3 inch length of supple braid a size 10 subzonal animal hook which is the strongest I have seen and I was using a short hair  with a 14mm duo glugged pop up form cv tackle and bait this rod was cast on the baited area without a mesh bag just a pva foam nugget to cover the hook when it settles. On the second rod was just a simple hair rig also on a 16mm tuttii fruity white boilie again from Ian at cv tackle and bait with a few crushed bottom baits and a few drops of tuttii fruity bait glug in a pva mesh bag this rod was cast to open water in front of me with both rods out it was time to sort the gear out tidy the shelter and have a cuppa oh time to chill and read a few more pages on the kindle I was reading Dave lanes carp book chasing dreams .

11lb+ common caught on a cv tackle tutti fruity bottom bait

3:30PM I had a few liners over the last couple hrs.' I had not been feeding much just refreshing the baits and casting out small pva mesh bags . after recasting new bait on different spots at about 5:45 it was starting to get dark so the rods were back out and I went and had a chat with my mate as soon as I got to his swim his  alarm screamed a one toner and at last one of us was into a fish after a very short battle I was slipping the net under a perfect small common its was only a small one but at this point very welcome after taking a few pictures and weighing the fish  it went 8lb it was slipped back into the water .

enjoying the corn

Less then 30 seconds and I was running back to my swim and striking into my first fish of the session again after a small battle my mate slipped the net under again a cracking creedy common a slight bit bigger then the one he had less then 10 minutes ago we took a couple snaps and it weighed 11lb 3oz and with 2 fish in 15 mins we thought they would be on the much at last as it had just got dark. I re-baited both rod and cast them back on the spots one to the left and the other on the spot I had just landed the fish from after another 15mins I had a screaming run but some how managed to lose the fish within a few seconds of lifting into it I felt it shake its head twice and it was off I was gutted but the rod was back on the spot fishing as soon as I could nothing else happened this evening on creedy both may self and my mate had liners but nothing came of them and at 10:30 we decided to call it a day as you have to be off the water by 11:00pm and out the car park soon after .



creedy lakes devon

I would just like to say thanks to Ian at cv tackle and bait for the cracking bait in which the carp cant resist and mark at subzonal tackle for the cracking hook that are sharper then the sharpest cheers guys and David cawsey for posting these blogs on the right sites and keeping the readers reading cheers guys and most of all thanks to the readers thanks and if you on the bank be safe and tight lines .cheers

Lee

                                            Rig Talk

                                                              

                             Blow back rigs



braided blow back rig

The braided blow back is probably one of my favourite rigs now I think its a simple productive and all round great rig I use it for single or double bottom baits and also I found it a great rig for single pop up or a snowman rig. I use a size 8 subzonal hook and a 4 mm O-ring with a 15lb korda braid with a small piece of shrink tubing over the eye of the hook just to make it look slightly more tidy then just the knot. Also I find when using this hook 9 time out of 10 I get a good hook hold and the hook is sat perfect in the mouth of the fish i find the smaller the o ring the better presentation you get but the bigger the o ring i find there is to much movement between the shank and the curve of the hook making it more prone to tangles but a guess its just every on fishes there rigs slightly different .                                           

                     STIFF D RIGS

          This is a fantastic rig for presentation when targeting big carp over a medium or large spread of bait . I would probably say most of the session I have done over the last 12 months I have always had at least one of my rods fishing on one of the stiff D rigs I feel there is no real reason for using tubing on the eye of the hook like I have seen and read about in the magazines but like I always say it every angler to the own and do what ever you feel is the best for you own fishing . I think that this is a really aggressive rig for fishing big baits also it flips quick to give a great hook hold when attaching my single bait to this rig I prefer to us a bait screw bit I know a lot of people prefer to attach there bait via bait floss to a o ring again its what you prefer to do.



 

MY 10  STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO TYING THE STIFF D RIG

1. first I always use a hook with a out turned eye and I use the korda stiff fluorocarbon I feel it is essential for tying the d rig I am hoping to start using the new hooklink material from cv tackle in the coming weeks so hopefully be able to test this but all the gear I have used of there's so far inc bait are top notch any way so I would trust it 100 %
2. Remove around 10-12 inches from the spool
3. place one end of the fluorocarbon through the eye of the hook
4.  I then start to tie the hook using the knot less knot but you can use what ever knot you use and feel confident in using
5. Now please on you O-ring or bait screw to the tag end on the back of the hook and thread the end through the eye of the hook to prevent the end pulling out the eye you now need to take a lighter and blob the end of the fluorocarbon to prevent it pulling out
6. Now tie a loop or a swivel in the other end using which ever knot you use
7. Now you are ready to trim of all the tag end and tidy up the rig
8. I now screw the bait screw into my bait and am ready to go but if you are using a O-ring you will need to attach the bait to the O-ring using bait floss
9. Now you ready to fish
10. Final tip go get those carp

                                                                   BAIT TALK

      With the rig talk out the way I know move on to talking a little bit about bait I use and have used in my fishing . I am happy to be testing the new duo boilie bottom bait and pop ups for cv tackle and bait . No matter were I fish at the moment I always have on of my rods on the duo weather it be a bottom bait or a pop up I always try to fish it with a small pva bag or mesh bag of crushed boilie. Also the last two months I have been trying the Steve Reynard bait and pineapple boilie which I won in a competition. In the past i have used a wide range of the cc Moore baits range and I must say I have had great results in fishing with them . I have used the cc Moore live system which is light in colour and very sweet in flavour I also used the odyssey xxx boilie I have not had great results on these but I have landed a few fish this wouldn't be my first choice of bait but it is great on different waters . This spring and summer I will be sticking to baits from cv tackle and bait which is the duo and a new one for me to use a tuttie fruity white boilies which Ian is in the middle of getting rolled for me and I am thinking if going to the route of pre baiting on the canal and I plan to pre bait with maize hemp corn tigers micro pellet and seeds . Thanks for reading this part of the blog its just a small part of my approach to the canal this year thanks again tight lines be safe.

                                    A day session away from the canal

 

              Welcome again to the latest blog coming to you from a lake I am fishing today instead of the canal were I do most of my carp fishing please feel free to comment below or ask any questions and I will try and reply asap so with this the way lets get to the interesting bit the fishing.

                                                      Arriving at the lake 

I arrived at the lake at around 11 am we were going to fish perseys pool which is a 3.8 ache lake on the digger lakes complex in devon run by a great guy ben gratwick so we loaded the gear on the barrow and headed up past the main lake known as snails and headed into the gate and this was perseys pool this was going to be the first time I fished perseys pool since it was opened about 3 plus
years ago . I knew that the far end of perseys was the shallow end I had been there looking around and walked the banks many times last summer but never got round to fishing it. I did a lap of the lake befor I decided were I was going to ,I decided to fish peg 3 on the left hand bank. My mate was going to fish peg 4 Both of the pegs we were in gave us both a lot of water in front of us to fish with a gap straight out in front of me between the two islands. There was a large dead weed bed on the right of me in front of the island I was feeling very confident that I was going to get a fish or two today and started setting up.



Rigs and Bait

With all the gear sorted rod pod set up and the rods ready it was time to sit in the shelter and think about bait and rigs . I had to tie up two new rigs as digger lake as a rule that only barbed hooks can be used no barbless I was going to fish two simple hair rigs using size 8 animal hooks from subzonal tackle thanks to mark top man, I always use a small pieces of tubing in the bottom of the hook as I always like the bait to be positioned right below the bottom curve of the hook. So with the rigs sorted and ready now to get some baits on , For todays session I was going to fish one rod on the duo pop ups for the first couple hours of the session then the other rod on a 18mm pineapple bottom bait both was fished over small pva mesh bags of crushed matching boilies. I fished like this until around 1 pm with only a few liners on the duo pops I decided to leave the pop up out on the spot its on and the other rod I reeled in and just kept changing from pop up using bright yellow and white and I also tried some other bottom
baits.My mate was on peg 4 he had not had a single bleep and he had only seen one sign of a fish when it rolled straight over the top of his baited area he did get a couple liners after seeing that fish
but nothing came of it we both kept trying our hardiest to get a fish but they just were not feeding today. So we cracked on and kept trying ben the fishery owner walked around late afternoon and checked the ticket and had a chat he said that over the last few day there had been a lot of fish moving in the area were we were and  to keep positive and it will come good and we would have a few into dark so we kept at it and fished until just after 9:30pm it didn't happen this time and we blanked .To be honest it would have been great to have a fish or two but I was buzzing at last I was back fishing on the digger lakes complex it was the first session on here in nearly 3 years and there was many more session to come on both perseys and snails I hope I love it here . 
 I would like to thanks a few people first of all thanks to Ian valentine from cv tackle and bait for the supply of cracking top quality boilie's and mark at  subzonal tackle for the extra strong  hooks cheers guys 



 

                      A cold day back on the local canal                    5-2-2015

 

          This is going to be a short blog about my last session on the it was the 5th of feb 2015 and it was sodding freezing the temp was only about 3 or 4 degrees at mid day but with the cold north wind the wind chill temp was around -5 or -6 we had a very light snow flurry but it dident come to anything its a shame really as I am like a big kid when it come to the snow haha So I had walked the stretch of canal I was going to fish a couple times though the last week over the last couple days I had been trickling in a small amount of low oil pellet and some crushed baits on a overhanging tree were I was think maybe just maybe it could do a fish . I set up the left hand rod on the overhanging bush that I had been putting in a bit of bait I used a standard simple pop up rig with a mainline peaches and cream bottom bait with a 14mm sticky bait white pop up on a size 10 subzonal hook . On the other rod was also a size 10 subzonal hook this time I was using a bait screw to attach the boilie instead of a hair rig I was using a 14mm glugged duo pop up from cv tackle and bait .I fished all day on the same rigs I didn't see any reason to change to a different rig all I done was kept refreshing my hook baits and putting out very small pva mesh bags on each spot on every casts I spent the rest of my time in the shelter out that bitter north wind Really it was a very poor session I had not even a single bleep on the atts not even a liners at around 3:30 I decided it was time to pack it in and head off home. So that is it for this part of the blog  I did say it was going to be a short blog but lets hope one of the next couple blogs from the canal may include a fish on the bank very soon.



 Well roll on the spring and summer until next time tight lines thanks for  reading and if your on the banks tight lines