Adam explains:

“Sometimes things just fall in your favour, and that’s just what happened to me recently when I had an unexpected opportunity for a last-minute day-session on the lake.

“I’d already been down to the lake that week, and unfortunately blanked on the few days fishing I had. But with this opportunity to get back, I knew it was too good to turn down. On arriving at the lake, I chose a different area than I fished earlier in the week. This time opting to fish further down the lake, in an area where I had a carp a few weeks previously.

“With only really having limited time, I went with a light baiting approach, just introducing a few catapults full of The Krill every now and then, almost like a match angler’s ‘little and often’ tactic. Over this, I fished boosted hookbaits and little PVA mesh bags of crumb and Bloodworm pellets, hoping to trigger some kind of a response.

“The first few hours passed quietly, and it was looking like another blank was on the cards. A short while later the wind picked up and a big raft of floating weed broke away and drifted right over my spot, this certainly changed my fortune and within an hour I had two bites!

“The first was an incredible carp, with dark leathery flanks and at a top weight of 35lb 14oz, which was shortly followed by another at the low-twenty mark. This could have easily been an opportunity missed, but it just goes to show sometimes it’s just worth getting the rods out how ever short the session.”