The Carp Society Adult Master Class 2010

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Friday 6th August Coaching After breakfast Tim gave the instructors an information sheet of our pupil’s capabilities which tells us a little about their fishing so far. At 9.30am the pupils started to arrive and were teamed up with their relevant instructor. My pupil was Mark Pearce from Kidlington in Oxfordshire, he had only been carp fishing for one year. His questionnaire sheet said he wanted to gain as much information as possible and maybe catch a personal best; his PB was 18lb. We made our way round to our swims and spent the first 3 hours going over where to fish in Mark’s swim. This involved leading around finding the difference between clear areas, gravel and weed. Once we had found an area to fish to we then went through Mark’s tackle box to see what rigs he was currently using. We changed a couple of things to make his rig more effective however, I wanted every item in his rig to come from Mark’s own tackle box so when he went fishing again he didn’t have to go and buy anything. We settled on 4 inch 12lb mono hook link, size 6 hook with 2 14mm baits, a snowman rig, he then cast out his rods. Mark’s first catch PB 19lb 12
We had a checklist from Tim of things to teach the pupils. <strong>The</strong>y included Fish care, Marker float, Casting, General Safety, Making Rigs, PVA, Spodding, Line, Floater Fishing, Playing Fish and Photography. While going over some of these subjects Mark had a blistering take on one of his rods, after a short fight we landed what looked like a 20lb Mirror, once weighed it went 19lb 12 which was still a PB for Mark so he was very happy. Whilst getting the camera ready for taking a few photo’s Marks other rod had a blistering take, 2 takes within minutes. Mark ran to his rod and I took care of the carp and put it back in the net and then into the water. I went to get my landing net and netted Marks 2nd fish. This fish was little bigger at 22lb 04 so Mark had now beaten his PB twice within minutes. We took pictures of both fish, then cast his rods out again and waited for some action which didn’t happen, so at 16.45hrs we brought our rods in to get to the club for 1700hrs for a presentation on bait by James Anderson and dinner. Mark’s second PB 22lb 04 After dinner everyone went back to their swim to fish for the night. For Mark and myself nothing happened, a peaceful night.
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