Turners Pool 28th July

Having finished work early on Monday, i received a text message from Amy and Dan inviting me to join them at Turners Pool. I agreed and made my way up there for about 2pm.

Turners Pool is located on a farm and is a day ticket pool just outside Leek, with plenty of carp in it.

Once i finally found my way to pool, thanks to Amy and Dans directions. Amy told me that she had caught three carp and Dan had caught one.

There where a couple of free pegs to the side of them, so i decide to fish next to them as they said they had seen alot of carp jumping there.

After an hour of fishing i was in, and i managed to catch a 2lb carp by floating bread and I/Dan also managed to break my landing net.

Time moved on and i wasn't having a much bites and the carp had moved out further to sun bath. So i decide to move down peg as i could hear a few tell tale sounds of carp sucking next to the reeds and trees.

So i scattered some bread about to see if i could locate them, after sometime i found the ones that were interesting in eating the bread. As well as the squirrel that had pinched two rounds from me.

Amy and Dan were laughing as they were been plagued by crab fish. Its all fun in the outdoors. You dont get that interaction on a PlayStation or Wee.

After locating the carp i managed to Hook an 8lb mirror carp. the biggest out of the seven that i caught that day.

Although i didn't manage to catch a double, i really enjoyed catching carp, they really do fight there.

Anyway thats my story, i am sure Amy and Dan have a lot more to tell about there experience.

Amys Story:

Turners pool was a fantastic day for all of us, I had never been before but Dan has always raved about it. We tried to go a couple of times earlier in the week, however both times we went it was too busy and there was no pegs avaliable much to our disappointment. we finally learnt our lessons and the next time we rang the pool fist. we called on the monday morning to hear that it was finally not that busy....

It was a beautiful Monday morning, around 10am when we finally setup our gear at the perfect spotwith just enough room for two. Me and dan were both ledgering and float fishing with two rods each






I set my float up with luncheon meat and our secret addition while dan went with the bread approach and on our ledgers we both had boilies on rigs.

It was fascinating to see how much activity was in the water and how many fish were jumping.

After Just a few minutes my Float had some exciting bites until it finally disappeared and I caught my first carp of the day (much to dans annoyance) ;0)



However after baiting the area with Ground bait and a few extras Dan got his first Carp of the day on Floating bread (it was also the first time he had caught carp with this method) it was a little bigger than mine, but as I reminded him it wasnt a competition.



Over the next few hours there was a lot of activity around us resulting in many bites and 2 more Carp for me both around the 4lb mark. However I was unable to get any pictures as they were feisty buggers and I felt it best to put them straight back before I dropped them. When Barry (Dave)joined us it was a 3-1 victory to me. We had a few bites on the ledgers but nothing took the bait.

After about 20mins of Barry being there he was catching quite a few and soon took me over (again much to dans annoyance :o)

Barry in the next peg

After the quiet spell wore off I was a little bemussed by what was happening to my float. Something had bitten it which I presumed was a fish however instead of taking this under it went on a little walk with my float. After what must of been 2 minutes of me just staring at it wondering what was happening I gently lifted my rod out of the water, only to see some scary looking legs wrapped around the meat. My first thought was Ive caught a trantula until i realised it looked more like a lobster. I soon discovered I d caught my first Cray Fish (not to my liking) After a few screams from dan telling me to not land the creature from within I finally managed to shake him off.

My bait soon went again, this time a had a nice Carp on the end, as I was reeling it in I again noticed the tranula looking legs attached to my line further uo my rod...yep I caught another Cray fish!!! They were everywhere and even dans floating bread started to go for walkies



My Fourth Fish and Dans Second



Barry also had a great day. Catching aroun 6 Carp and two others







At around 8.30pm we decided to pack up as we were the last on the pool. we had an eventful day and after many hours me and dan both got 6 Carp. However one of Dans was a baby one so technically I won.

The Squirrel that stole Barrys bread:

Deeps Hayes 27th July

It is was a nice baking hot day, so i thought to myself why not go fishing. So i got in touch with Ben and he said he wanted to try out Deep Hayes in Longsdon. I said ok.

Deep Hayes is a part of the Leek and Moorlands fishing Club, which we both got a license for this year for first time in ten years. There is just one pool there. But the other waters which are apart of the club are Crakemarsh, Herionmarsh and the river Dove and Churnet.

Once i got there i could see lots of Carp on Top, I arrived a little later than Ben had already got there and he informe me that he had caught a 10lb carp on top. With his first cast by surface fishing.

So i was eager to get fishing. As i was setting up i could see alot of movement on top.

So tried surface fishing, but it wasn't to be, I didn't get a single bite. So i switched to float fishing and still I didn't get a single bite.

In turned out that i didn't get a single bite all day. Ben didn't manage to catch anything else either, but he did have more bites than i did. Well done Ben

Basford 23rd July

Yesterday it was my birthday and i decided to go fishing at Basford, a day ticket fishery. It cost five pounds to fish there and there are four pools, with a mixture of course fish from Carp to Roach. I set off with my tackle and my Girlfriend Katie May and we were joined later by Amy.

I got off to a bad start, and didn't have a bit all morning on my float or bait runner.

So i decided to move and the bits started to pick up. I decide to do some surface fishing, I managed to catch two common carp.

Here are the results.



First catch of the day




Second catch of the day, a double pound carp.