Adam revealed:

“Following on from my previous report, I just couldn’t wait to get back down to Carthagena and I had one more 72hr session available. This time I went in with a plan, and that was to go against the grain, giving it a solid hit of bait and simply sitting on it. I targeted a silty area that I’d consistently seen night-time, autumnal activity. It was certainly a gamble with the wily old carp, but with the lake not having done a bite for a week up to that point and the majority of others fishing over handfuls, it was worth the experiment! So, out went a similar mix as I’d caught over before, a bed of mixed sized Bloodworm pellets, crushed, crumbed & halved 12mm Manilla Active, with handfuls of the standard 16mm Manilla Boilies glugged in Pure Calanus and Cloudy Manilla Liquid.

“The carp were noticeably still using this area each night and so I was surprised come the final morning that I’d not had a chance, even after sitting on my hands the previous nights without recasting. I decided to tweak my presentation ever so slightly just in case I was missing a trick.

“With subtle sloshing just on dark and through the early part of the night, the carp had followed their normal routine, it was looking just as promising as the previous nights!

“Whether or not the rig tweak was the deciding factor I’ll never know for sure, but I am sure glad I did as at around 1am my right-hand rod pulled up tight, signalling the chance I had been hoping for. On lifting into the fish, the surface erupted something more akin to hooking a carp in shallow water, not 10 feet!

“A short plodding battle took place, and before long, one of the many special carp that live in Carthagena lay in the folds of my net. It was one that I had hopes of meeting, the incredibly unique, Neptune, I was absolutely made up! On the bank she looked incredible and spun the scales to a pleasing 36lb 9oz.”