After all the snow and cold weather it was nice to get out and be warm for once.
Decided to try something different this weekend , have a go at a bit of specimen hunting and i could not think of a better place than Morton Springs.
I settled on a peg close to the car park ,which gave me a comfortable 30 yard cast to the island and with the wind of my back it was perfect.
Started the session on the straight lead , casting about until i had some kind of indication , but after two hours it looked like another blank was on the cards, time for a change, out went the method feeder loaded with dampened micros but after an hour still nothing, last chance saloon.On went a Preston's pellet feeder , a short hook length size 14 guru QM hook and quick stop. I casted out about six foot off the island and began making some hook lengths up, when the tip went slack and the line limp , i reeled down and connected with a freight train, it took me into a weed bed about 20 metres out, i let the line go slack for a moment and then began to pump, the fish came free and i could see it was a big Barbel,, my heart began to race , again it snagged up in more weed , this time in front of me , i could see it was big, again i freed it and a nice 7.5lb fish was in the net.
Soon after a nice 4lb mirror fell too the same tactic and this was followed by a nice 6.5lb common.
Only one more bite came after this , the wind had changed and was blowing crosswind making casting a bit more difficult, i was happy thou, what looked like another blank turned out fine and this one trip totalled more than my last 3 put together .lol.
