#Picturesque monstrous things zip full
He was down tenching at 10 at night, smack-bang on the full moon. My old mate ‘Subsurface Sam’ was down hunting, and also someone who I have the upmost respect for an old boy called Ray Bayes (none other than Gary Bayes’ brother.) Now Ray has help me so much over the years. A couple more weeks of baiting and I was keen to get down on the Wednesday for the full moon – I’d baited heavily. I blanked the first trip (which was a Saturday after work).
I’d gone in with a weed rake and raked off plenty of areas and baited with a couple of spoons of bait every other day – game on! I thought now it’s so low stocked, I should be able to single him out a bit easier than before – the weed was up to the top of the shallow lake already. I had started to bait this weedy lake lightly in some of the old areas. In 2021 around the first week of May saw me wandering around the estate lake, trying to find them. Joe’s C’ommn’s just come out at 34, down in weight because of the otters but alive” I thought, I’m going to catch you! With ‘Baz’ netted at 51lb 04 in September time, I had to have a go for him properly and finish what I had started! Around May, I was sat down there when the phone went with old mate on the end, “you’re not going to believe this. I sat there having a beer in the on-site pub vowing from that day to never leave a carp behind, thinking ‘Joe’s Common’ was dead.Ģ020 (the big lock down year) saw me in full-flight mode, hunting Yorkshire’s finest ‘Baby Baz’. I was fishing for a 45 lb Lincs common at the time.
Every other year I would repeat this and get the ticket, but around 2017 to 2018 the otters started to raid the lovely lake, taking the stock down from around 40 to 45 carp to around 9 – I was sent a photo of a big, long common on one of the many islands this lake, stripped down to bone. Fast forward 3 years and I had to pull off – the repeats were mounting up for me, and the common had beaten me, getting caught off a spot I’d primed and moved off from to go to work the next day.Ģ016 saw me return around June time for another go – I had a couple of months back, but again 5 bites and 5 repeats had me running away back to another old pit. Hemp and peanuts to small holes in the weed was my favourite sort of approach so I regularly baited the edge, were the common was known to come from. I ended the season on 28, with 6 losses due to the weed Aaron ended up around the 35 mark, yet one thing in common – no ‘Joe’s Common’ for either of us! For yet another year it went uncaught, that was becoming standard for the sly old common! They said 10 a season was top rod and good going. Many years ago, along with my good friend Aaron Smith we went on to batter this lake, taking its stock one-by-one, week-by-week. Whenever I think or dream about carping, I’m on this lake, fishing for these stunning very tough old English carp. Fast forward 10 years, with mortgages and kids in the equation, but the journey finally came to an end to what transpired to be my nemesis – the mighty ‘Joe’s Common’, from the big weedy pit. June 2011 was the year I first obtained a ticket for the picturesque 18-acre estate lake in the beautiful Lincolnshire countryside. Lewis Spencer gives us the the ‘ups and downs’ of chasing his nemesis ‘Joe’s Common’ around…
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