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I have 7 more sleeps to our holiday in sunny Devon in a lovely cottage with this outside the door:
The blurb online says it’s stocked primarily with carp & rudd with “some” roach and a smattering of other species (all a bit vague) and as it’s a family holiday with a bit of fishing kit needs to be kept to a minimum and absolutely no maggots or casters permitted.
Kit list as agreed with my beloved is as follows :
12’ feeder rod & Okuma reel
13’ Daiwa match rod & 125m (will sneak centrepin in too)
13.5m pole
Jacob’s 4m pole and 10’ float rod + Cadence CS4 reel
4m landing net
Also taking a 6’ spinning rod for a spot of LRF when we hit the beaches and breakwaters.
My bait list is:
pellets (2mm/4mm/6mm/8mm)
expanders (6mm & 8mm)
hemp (plus a flask to prep it in)
pedigree chum mixers
a multitude of squirty stuff - spicy sausage, banoffee & choc orange haze, super scopex bait booster
Flirted with the idea of a bag or two of paste and groundbait but think I may be over complicating things as this is a low pressured lake
Basically all I can cram into a pair of roof tubes and a single bag
There are also the standard kitchen cupboard staples like sweetcorn, luncheon meat, bread, etc in general food stocks
Terminal tackle is a small toolbox of inline bombs, pole floats and made up rigs, a wide selection of Drennan Crystal wagglers (loaded and unloaded), Preston pellet wagglers and the bits I need to make up extra pole rigs on site, hook tying kit, weights, blah, blah.
I‘m happy we can bash out carp on most of this lot and probably roach with hemp and punched bread but haven‘t fished for rudd for more than 15yrs and when I did caster was king - if I do decide to have a go then what do folks recommend from the above list as go to baits and tactics and is there an essential I‘ve overlooked?
Realistically it will be very early morning session before breakfast followed by a day trip out somewhere then a session before dinner, maybe even one or two after dinner too.
The blurb online says it’s stocked primarily with carp & rudd with “some” roach and a smattering of other species (all a bit vague) and as it’s a family holiday with a bit of fishing kit needs to be kept to a minimum and absolutely no maggots or casters permitted.
Kit list as agreed with my beloved is as follows :
12’ feeder rod & Okuma reel
13’ Daiwa match rod & 125m (will sneak centrepin in too)
13.5m pole
Jacob’s 4m pole and 10’ float rod + Cadence CS4 reel
4m landing net
Also taking a 6’ spinning rod for a spot of LRF when we hit the beaches and breakwaters.
My bait list is:
pellets (2mm/4mm/6mm/8mm)
expanders (6mm & 8mm)
hemp (plus a flask to prep it in)
pedigree chum mixers
a multitude of squirty stuff - spicy sausage, banoffee & choc orange haze, super scopex bait booster
Flirted with the idea of a bag or two of paste and groundbait but think I may be over complicating things as this is a low pressured lake
Basically all I can cram into a pair of roof tubes and a single bag
There are also the standard kitchen cupboard staples like sweetcorn, luncheon meat, bread, etc in general food stocks
Terminal tackle is a small toolbox of inline bombs, pole floats and made up rigs, a wide selection of Drennan Crystal wagglers (loaded and unloaded), Preston pellet wagglers and the bits I need to make up extra pole rigs on site, hook tying kit, weights, blah, blah.
I‘m happy we can bash out carp on most of this lot and probably roach with hemp and punched bread but haven‘t fished for rudd for more than 15yrs and when I did caster was king - if I do decide to have a go then what do folks recommend from the above list as go to baits and tactics and is there an essential I‘ve overlooked?
Realistically it will be very early morning session before breakfast followed by a day trip out somewhere then a session before dinner, maybe even one or two after dinner too.