Carp anglers often bemoan the bream that pick up their carefully-placed rigs, but the tables were turned during Rob Bailey’s recent session at Walthamstow Reservoirs, when this hefty 41lb 3oz common muscled in on his slab session!
He was fishing at Lower Maynard – a venue that holds a good head of specimen bream running well into double figures. Using an 8mm wafter hookbait and a window feeder over a bed of groundbait, dead maggots and 2mm pellets, Rob received a take from a fish that made a very powerful first run.
“I was using a 1.5lb test curve barbel rod and the fish took around 15 minutes to get in,” he told us. “After its first run, the carp plodded around, not fighting as much as I would have expected. Sadly, I didn’t catch any bream!”
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