Arren’s Lake.Essex. July 14th, 2002

Hawthorne AC club match.

A lovely warm summers day promised a decent days sport on this rural Essex venue noted for it’s winter time bags of Rudd & Roach, however at this time of year the Carp enter the equation, and if they aren’t in your swim you aren’t going to win.
I drew peg 19 and they weren’t there !!!!!!!

However fishing a power top 2 with a no12 elastic (just in case Mr Carp decided to put in an appearance) a busy time was had with the small Rudd that refused to be fed off .
Averaging about 1oz apiece they kept coming at intervals all day, and come the final whistle, they rolled the scales around to record a weight of 32lbs 12ozs. Only good enough for 10th on the day but a pleasant days fishing all the same.