Nigel Letford Masterclass Day Decoy Lakes
17th June 2014
50 lbs of quality carp
This was a special Christmas present from Nigel’s wife Claire, as you can see from the pictures he is a very loyal Bob Nudd fan.
Nigel’s first fish a 6lb mirror carp
The wonderful Decoy Lakes near Whittlesea in Cambridgeshire was the chosen venue. Diane the owner had kindly allowed the use keepnets.
Nigel’s Browning Z8 pole performed well
It was a bright summer morning, but the cool northerly wind was keeping the temperature a little below average for this time of the year.
Nigel slips the net under a good carp
Yew lake holds some good carp and barbel so I decided we would fish there, cupping in 2 pots of 6mm and 4mm Van Den Eynde hard feed carp pellets with a 6mm expander on the hook at about 10 mts out Nigel quickly hooked into a 6lb mirror carp. The fish never really were mad on, but by switching to loose feeding 4mm pellets and using a 4mm expander on the hook the fish kept coming for the rest of the day.
a beautiful mirror carp
I did the catch shots at about 4.30 pm and I guess Nigel had caught just over 100lbs.
Bob
Here some more pictures:
my first ever barbel
Yes, it’s mine!
biggest fish of the day a 7lb common carp
a 4lb barbel in perfect condition
50lbs of smaller carp and barbel