Jim Wilson has continued his run of good form this season by getting in touch with news of another cracking result. Over to Jim to take up the story:
"I arrived at my syndicate water late Monday evening, after making a short notice decision to actually fish there. There were a couple of other lads plotted-up around the pit, and a swim giving access to shallower water really did look good, but because one of the other lads was set-up next door, I decided to head to the opposite bank and a swim that I know fairly well.
With the rods in position for about half eight, all three fishing over a bed of whole and chopped Hybrid boilies along with hemp and added hempseed oil, just to boost the mix a little. I had little Milky Toffee pop-ups on low Stiff Hinge rigs on two rods and a Snowman rig on the third.
I settled in for the night to see what happened, and after a relatively quiet night I swung my legs off the bedchair to stick the kettle on around 5am to sit and watch the water with a brew. Just as I fired up the kettle the middle rod, fished up against a tree line in around 22ft of water pulled up tight and started to slowly take line against the tight clutch, which was unusual because of the nature of the spot I was fishing the clutch really tight.
On connecting with the unseen kipper it initially didn’t put up that much resistance until I got her under the rod tip and saw what I was connected too. At which point she went nuts and started stripping line from the tight clutch. After five minutes or so of too and fro I eventually guided her over the net cord.
On the mat I instantly new she would be close to the magic 40lb mark and the scales confirmed it. One of the A-Team from the venue at 40lb 4oz!"
