I decided to fish my favourite local venue, Pallington Lakes, which is situated in the Dorset countryside. Fish go up to 40lb in the lakes, but just the chance of some surface action was good enough for me. I arrived at the lake around midday as the weather would be approaching its warmest stages, hopefully giving the carp time to rise up in the water layers. To my disbelief I found only 2 other anglers on the complex so I had almost 3 lakes to myself.
After a lap of the usual hot spots it was clear the carp weren’t playing ball as not one dog biscuit was taken. Maybe today was to be harder than I first thought.
As I began the second lap I noticed the reeds twitch on one of the islands, in a relatively sheltered area of the lake. That was the only sign of a fish I had seen so far so I decided to hang around a bit longer. Using the catapult I fired 3 pouches of dog biscuits along the reedline. Almost as soon as they landed the unmistakable slurp from a carp was heard. ...