Hampton Springs 11/05/2006

[matt82]

The beauty that is flexi-time meant that I had a half day today & decided on a reccy on Hampton Springs ahead of a club match there this coming Sunday. I got there just before 3 and installed myself in a peg just as you go onto Long Island:



Started off at 6m on pellet after feeding a pot of pellet & corn on that line and a pot of meat and corn in the margins to my left in 2ft of water. I was pestered by gudgeon at 6m so after 10 minutes I switched to the margins and was immediately into barbel, tench & carp.







The inside was fishing so well that I decided to start another margin swim to my right. That soon came good and I was catching a couple from each swim before switching to the other. I found meat hookbait was getting me bites within seconds of it hitting the water.

With the fish seeming to prefer the shallow water I had a dabble up-in-the-water with pellet at 11m for half an hour and I nabbed a load of skimmers as well as some decent chub & a rogue tench before the wind picked up a bit and I moved back inside.

All-in-all a great afternoon and I'm looking forward to Sunday now! Lets hope the weather stays good & I draw ok.

[alan76]

How long did it take to get there Matt?Good to see you put that new camera to good use,what sort of weight do you think you ended up with.

[mathew]

Nice report mate..
Just wondering did u have to purchase their own house brand feeder pellets?
And how much was it a bag and peg fee ?

[KeviN]

top report mate!

how to fish up in the water effectively? start from the deck and shorten the rig several inch until connect to the fish??

[rafalution]

Little word of advice matt, don't pot the bait in at the margins give it large mate, make as much noise as you can.

[matt82]

So many question hahaha!

Alan - took roughly an hour to get there but might take less on a quiet Sunday morning. Dead easy to find mate. Ended up with about 30lb in four hours.

Mathew - yes you have to use the fishery's own pellets and he charged me £2 for a bag! They will do me for Sunday though. Peg fee was £6. What with petrol & tunnel costs as well it wasn't a cheap afternoon's fishing.

Kevin - TBH mate I was only messing about up-in-the-water to see if it was worth bothering with so I used my margin rig set at 2ft deep fishing with 6mm expender & started pinging pellets over the top. Got bites from chub after about 3 mins.

Rafa - Cheers mate. A full drennan cup of corn, meat & pellet cupped in from a height followed by a couple of cups of water made plenty of splash though!

[rafalution]

I saw a fella go there fish a match and put two tins of corn in straight away mate, I couldn't believe it.

[matt82]

I know mate its a world away from the fishing the cut aint it?!?! The place is absolutely stuffed with fish and they weren't exactly tackle shy either. I was fishing .16 straight through to a size 14 PR27 and still catching small roach & gudgeon.

[ryan06]

only problem there is that its full of gudgeon

[rafalution]

how did the match go?

[alan76]

Nobody went mate,I ended up in hospital all weekend and that snookered bigdave for a lift and ukfisher ended up going the hospital every day to see me.I spoke to match sec,match was won with 30lbs.