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Autumn Gold

It just wasn't happening no matter what I done, they showed a lotbut nothing was caught apart loads of bream.

There was a low thirty mirrror out and one lost over the next seven to eight weeks.

It was time to leg it as my gut feeling was telling me I was wasting my time, I should of gone weeks before but the thought of the Kingsmead fish kept me going until I said no more as sod all was coming out carp wise for ages.

I damaged my ligament in my knee getting in the boat, so that done it for me.

I decided to go and fish Waveney until I could walk properly, I ended up with six fish to 32lb common. Time to get back out there again.

I was doing a lot of tuition trips and using Mayfields on the Boyer Leisure ticket so spent a few weeks round there.

I decided to drive and go and have alook at the Woolpack in Cambridgeshire.

As soon as I got there I found them showing on lake 7 near a weed bed twenty to twenty five yards out.

Time to get my gear then I bumped into Andy the owner of the lake and after a while I said to him the suns setting time to get the rods out before dark so it was time to go and get my gear and barrow it to the swim.

As I could use four rods I decided I would fish two on Stickys vortex and the other two on Stickys white chocolate buchu berry pop ups on long running chod rigs.

As I set all the rods up first several fish showed near the weed bed, so I knew where I was going to cast them to, I mentally logged the spots where they showed.

I managed to get them out just before dark and spread some 16mm Stickybaits Vortex boilies around the four hook baits.

They showed like mad all night, unreal and they even woke me up at times.

By the morning I hadn't had as much as I bleep I then saw one push out to the left so I reeled the right hand rod in and before casting it back out I checked the hook was still sharp and re curved the rig.

Forty minutes later I had a take on that rod and within a few seconds he was gone, I was gutted and when I checked the hook the point was burred over, so the hook must have hit bone.