Since the July floods, Linear Fisheries officer Chris Blunt has not been able to squeeze in a session at the Stanton Harcourt fishery because of his workload.
But he made up for lost time when he spent 36 hours on Manor Farm Lake. He chose to fish the road bank and spodded out a mixture of hemp, pellet and chopped 14mm KG-1 boilies.
He caught ten carp, including a single-figure fish, three doubles, several twenties weighing 20.2.0, 21.12.0, 23.8.0 and 24.10.0, plus a 33.10.0 specimen, all mirrors.
To cap it off, he banked the huge mirror carp known as Cut Tail' weighing in at a mighty 40.2.0 - his first 40.
Chris used 12lb Big Game mainline, 15lb Mantis Green hooklink and ESP D7 size 7 hooks.
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