Nick Mackie’s Fishing Diary - Common Carp Fishing at Syndicate, Essex

Captor’s Comments:

Wadered out onto clear gravel patch becide bed of weed, hookbait droped on a diner plate sized clear spot with free baits spread around it. 30 mins later bite alarm beeped once rod bent round. Fish made straight for a bed of millfoil but managed to coax into open water. Due to low levels in water i had to wade out to net the fish.

The fish was damaged from spawning but was caught again in January 2010 at 40.06lb and has healed with no scars present.

Conditions:

• air temp
  
  27°C
• water temp
  
  20°C
• water depth
  
  4ft
• water clarity
  
  Crystal clear
• wind speed
  
  Calm
• wind dir
  
  Unknown
• weather
  
  Sunny
• air pressure
  
  1024 mbar Steady
• moon phase
  
  Waning Gibbous Moon