Pendle View -

We watched the new carp go in the lake on Tuesday 22nd July, every fish was fighting fit, Dave rang to say a lot had been caught by Thursday of the same week so I set about fishing there Friday night...

On arival the lake was quite full, the only option was peg 89, this looked good because the wind was blowing in that direction..... 15 minutes after setting up the wind changed .....(as per usual) and the sky darkened with thunder clouds, you could feel the pressure drop as the rain came.....

At 10:30 the right rod ripped, this was a boilie fished with a stringer around 35 yards out towards the holiday lodges, the rain was pouring during the fight which was powerul and quite worrying because visibility was poor and the heavy rain made concentration difficult, eventually the fish hit the net, a nice Mirror of 24lb, at first I thought it was a new stockie but I have looked back on the pics to confirm .....