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Year’s best for Chalvedon duo
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| Jack Roberts (left) and Michael Marchant shows two of the carp from their Gloucester Park haul. |
CHALVEDON School pupils Michael Marchant and Jack Roberts both landed their best fish of the year when they spent a session at their local Gloucester Park lake.
The duo targeted the cockle bank carp using tutti fruitti boillies to include five good commons amongst their catch.
Marchant finished the day with their biggest fish, a common of 16lb 8oz, while Roberts netted carp to a best of 13lb.
The two 15-year-olds tempted their fish casting to the Basildon water's island, presenting their baits on semi-fixed rigs over a bed of free offerings.
They found that keeping both their baits and free offerings close to the island dramatically improved their catch rate.
The Gloucester Park cockle bank also proved a hotspot for Paul Jennings, who landed 11 carp to a best of 15lb 8oz during an overnight session.
Jennings fished three rods, casting two to the island, with his third baits presented in the near margin.
The best of his sport came at dawn. Twice in the space of half an hour he had two carp on at the same time.
All of Jennings' fish fell to his own home-made Mainline mix boilies.
Fishmonger Steve Roper decided to try something different when he fished the Gloucester Park cockle bank, bringing with him a bucket of cockles that were past their sell-by date.
Presenting three hair rigged cockles alongside a PVA bag of cockles rewarded him with a hectic session.
He landed a total of nine carp, with the best three weighing 12lb 12oz, 13lb and 14lb 8oz.
Roper reckons he would have caught twice as many carp if the bream had not also found the cockles to their liking.
By the end of his session Roper had landed more than 30lb of bream, with individual specimens to 4lb!
Gloucester Park regular Stan Howard targeted the Gloucester Park bream to land a superb 70lb-plus silverfish haul.
Howard also fished from the cockle bank were he used pole tactics to take a succession of decent bream on pellet bait.
4:22pm Wednesday 26th March 2008
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