Mark & Lee Stokes Masterclass Day Decoy Lakes
30.03.2015
great catch Lee
This was a special combined birthday present from Mark and Lee’s families. The wonderful Decoy lakes near Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire was the chosen venue. Diane the owner had kindly allowed them both to use a keepnet.
Mark with his first fish
It was a cool bright morning with a strong westerly wind. One corner of Beastie lake looked well sheltered so we decided to fish there. Both anglers opted to fish the method feeder after already having success from spending the previous 3 days fishing on the venue.
Lees first fish a small F1
Well soaked 2mm Van Den Eynde carp pellets and fishmeal groundbait was the mix with a cocktail of a banded 6mm pellet tipped with either double dead red maggots or sweetcorn. It was a slow start much expected as the water temperature was still very low. Mark was the first to catch. It was a skimmer about 1lb, then Lee hooked into a small F1. After midday the action speeded up and soon both of them were catching well. Lee caught the biggest fish of the day, but his technique is not to be recommended, when rushing to pick up his rod he tripped over his landing net handle, did a double summersault and ended up playing the fish flat on his back.
We left the bank at about 5 pm both of them having had a brilliant day, catching about 40lbs of fish each.
Bob
Some more pictures:
an unusual 2lb golden tench
a quality 2lb bream
a 3lb tench
Mark’s biggest fish a beautiful 6lb mirror carp
biggest fish of the day an 8lb mirror carp in perfect condition
great catch Mark