Me, katie, Amy and Dan set off on an hours drive to Hamstall fisheries located near Rugeley on the edge of Staffordshire. Its a day ticket venue that charges £6.
Amy had read about the venue via their website and it seemed promising as the average carp caught on pool is said to be 12lbs.
So with our bushes tails set high we set off and once we arrive we found that there wasn't many pegs free and struggled to find a peg except towards the far end of pool three.
There was plenty of movement in the water and I felt reasonable confident that I would land a carp. Instead i managed to cast my float into the tree. A great start. But My float was saved by a friendly man fishing opposite. He shouted "do you have any tape?" I replied "yes" and went over. He start to unscrew his landing net and asked for the tape. He then tape his cigarette to the end of his landing net and moved towards my peg. And burnt the line that was attached to the float and tree. The float dropped in the water and was saved from a hanging.
I then start to fish and missed a few bites, but I managed to get a carp revisiting my swim by offering him free cat food and floating bread. I though it would suely take my hook bait. But it never did.
And sadly this was the story all day.
Never the less, i really enjoyed my days fishing at Hamstall and was really impressed my the facilities and the size of the carp that everyone else was catching. And found the venue to be very relaxing.
And many thanks to the friendly Liverpudlian fishermen.
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