More Hybrid Success For Jim! 21st May, 2014

Jim Wilson's spring susses shows no signs of slowing up just yet by the looks of this report recently sent to us from the Mainline carper...

"I arrived at my syndicate water full of confidence after the last couple of trips, and was keen to get there as early as possible to have a good look around and see what was what? So arrived around 4:30am just before first light and took advantage of the situation, grabbing the brew kit and chair and heading to one of the swims giving a view of most of the lake. 

After a couple of cuppa’s and an hour or so of watching I had an idea where I needed to be so went back to the motor, grabbed the rods and rucksack and just the bits for the day. 
I was soon in position with three rods out - all on pop-up rigs: two on Milky Toffee hookbaits and the other an orange fruity mix. A couple of kilos of Hybrid went out around each rod, with the one in the margin also getting a heavy hit of hemp and pellets. I would say I was settled with the rods out for about 7am that morning.

The first bite came far quicker than I expected, especially having baited relatively heavily, and at just gone 8 o’clock I was bent into my first fish of the trip - the result beeing a belting 28lb+ common, which really got the confidence going. And rightly so - a couple of hours later I was away again with a sensational scaly mirror at just over 21lb.

So I decided to add a couple hundred Hybrid boilies to each area with the throwing stick just to freshen up the spots after having two in fairly quick bites and it seemed to pay off. At around half-three that afternoon I had another take - a clonking 34lb common the result. I was getting quite confident now, and thought I was in for a proper hit of fish, but they soon told me who was boss and seemed to drift off from the area and around midnight I also suffered the pain of a hook pull, which really hurt!

The following day I re-did two of the rods and topped the spots up with another hit of Hybrid, which worked a treat when one of the re-cast rods pulled up tight and resulted in a stunning 31lb mirror! I really hope my luck holds, and hopefully I’ll have more to tell you about soon..."