We arrived back at Horseshoe late Sunday evening and set the bivvies up at the bottom of the Winter Bay, sport was a little slow for the first three days and we soon started moving around the lake again fishing near the top of the lake point on the trout bank. This is a lovely wild area away from the crowds and full of wildlife. Indeed, being a keen naturalist I’m always interested in photographing fauna at any opportunity and the grass snake population gave me plenty. One funny thing does stick in my mind. It happened whilst fishing the trout bank where both Lee and I were sharing the same bivvy and reading one evening while waiting for the action. When the action came it was in the form of a huge toad which leaped inside the bivvy landing between us both on the floor. Lee picked the toad up and threw it towards my sleeping bag. Feeling sorry for the toad I threw him towards the bivvy door. A few nights later in the swim the toad (the same one) reappeared from behind the mossy net, so I made sure he went through the door this time. We packed everything up after five days and moved down the trout bank into the Summer Bay and while making breakfast the next morning I found our friend the toad again. He must have landed in the freezer box, so we must have had that poor toad in captivity for over a week and not realised it. This time I returned him back up the trout bank and placed him in the water. A few more days in on the bay and ‘South African Barry’ dropped in for a few days from Manchester. Since we had been away from home for over a month we had some catching up to do. Later in the week Ivan Shipley called in, another mate from the old town, while days later Mike’s dad called in to take Mike home. We fished with Barry for about a week until he had to go back to do one of those things they call a job? And we found ourselves moving back around the lake to a couple of swims behind the showers. For the five weeks previously we had been catching a reasonable head of carp, but on moving into Summer Bay we started to pick up other species, very welcome species. First we hit the tench, caught mainly on a mix young Lee had made up consisting of a variety of birdfood and trout pellet all laced together with a good helping of molasses which we had purchased from Pets World in Swindon. We both managed a few good tench to 6lb. Behind the showers Lee took a carp of 28lb (our biggest for the trip) followed by a nice crucian of just over the pound, while I was extremely lucky and took a 3  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community.
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