Holly Farm doesn't disappoint

Last week I headed back to Holly Farm Lakes in South Walsham for another enjoyable afternoon's fishing. When I arrived I was glad to see that a favourite peg of mine at the very far end of the 'canal' lake was free.

The weather has been sunny and dry recently and, although not as hot as some of the days we have seen, it was a pleasant 20C. The only problem about fishing on the sunny side of the lake is that eventually the sun is right in your eyes and you can't avoid seeing its reflection in the water.

I was using my new Maver Abyss X Series rod with 5lb line, a waggler weighted with 2 BB shot and a size 12 hook. I had sweetcorn and luncheon meat with me and I was finding that the sweetcorn was doing very well. Later in the afternoon I switched to the luncheon meat and started to hook some heavier fish.

I was catching a series of carp from the word go. Early on I had this nice 15.5 inch mirror:-

Most of the carp I was catching were only up to one or two pound and nothing much of any size. They were a mixture of commons and mirrors. I also caught a few roach and a couple of very small tench. The nice thing about these waters is that the roach don't dominate the fishing. Most of what I was catching were carp (unlike at Dilham).

At the very end of the day I had a nice tussle with this 21inch 6lb fish:-

All pictures and text copyright Duncan Hale-Sutton 2016.