The 2. Season start of the year. Since Whitsuntide I did not come to fishing no more. Now I am loading my tackle into the car since hours. 4 days nothing else then fishing. Still refuelled and up on the motorway. Wums, as it should also be different, after 500 meters I am in a traffic jam. That costs me about 40 minutes and a few nerves...
The remaining 120 kilometers are however freely and like that I am an hour later at the lake. Nico waits already, thus things unloaded, camp structured, feeds and rods out, the whole procedure like always. Against 6.00pm Nico left for home, I am alone. First I make something to eat, gyros at a gasoline stove, ultimatively. Against 7.00pm the tender back of a carp breaks through the water surface. Well, unfortunately the carps seem to have the larger perseverance today. Because of this I try to sleep a bit. Against 11.30pm, slept almost, I hear for the first time for months the familiar beep of the Carpsounder. Ran to the rod, unfortunately I remain however only second winner. Which debit, at least the carps seem to have found favours on my selfmade boilies. The night passed calmly, apart from a few mosquitoes, too calmly! 6.30am, again a bite. The contact to the fish upright holding I constantly branch in the boat, but unfortunately I lose this fish too. Again one away. First something to eat and a coffee. Against 2.00pm comes Nico, including girlfriend, over to look whats up and see me driving with the boat, a fish at the other end of the line. That fish something in the fourties centimeter is checked off still in the water and left swim. 10 minutes later the same play, the fish could almost be the same. Piieeep, the bite indicator estimates itself and I can show the next mini carp the world outside of the water. After that fish fortunately there is no other. Point 9.00pm, Torsten was even there on a talk, a further bite. The fish was still smaller than those before it. What is wrong with the lake? We could not catch such fish in all the years before! At 0.30am a short beep but the fish did not run away. Up to this short disturbance the night, with the exception of the mosquitoes and a mouse, passed calmly. Point 7.00am right rod, screeeeeeming run, result 6lbs.... I should drive home! Modify tactics as the first: no more prebaiting and 4 boilies at the hair. Against 10.00am Nico comes and we first build his camp. 5.30pm changing the tactics brought nothing. A short bliieep on the right rod. I am still at the pod, there runs the left rod land off and again a mini carp can be caught. At 6.00pm, the right rod comes to word, strike and further 6 lbs. carp.
After the night passed calmly, no mice, no mosquitoes and no carps, it remains the whole morning calm and I began to hope for something large. At 12.45pm a careful bite and a small carp becomes apparent, steps out however after few seconds. Oh, so calmly the night did not pass then also, Nico had a bite against 4.00am, 6 lbs... Welcome in the club.