Futbol Fishing y España land of the giant carp!

The last three weekends have been mental! I have been in Extremadura, Castilla la Mancha and Catalonian fishing for carp, that’s some serious mileage!

I have seen swims and some big carp fishing potential, not half! This Weekend I was in Catalonia for our CARPdiem carp fishing match ‘football fishing’, the location was the most breathtaking and impressive carp water I have seen in Spain! Those Catalonians have a jewel and some more, chorr, actually they have this most picturesque water with agua clear as that in the Carribean. How did it go? We arrived later on Friday than expected, after an 8hr drive. We met the other team, did some feeling about with a marker and lead, picked a deep water spot with loads of changes in depth ranging from 15-35ft of water all very chuckable, we baited a little 8kg of Mistral Crab and Craw in 20mm format and away we went. Locals who fish the water regular advised us to bait and wait.

Bait and wait:

We did just that, bait in via boat (nice) at 11pm. a snoozed, then an early morning alarm clock rise at 5am for the first run, (not fishing the nights). The day shone and the Osprey or fish Eagle did it’s bit and kept us entertained, we swam in the waters, ate our way through local fair bought at the supermarket in the village down the dusty mountain road. You could sense an energy in the air bank side, something was here, this was some wilderness at the foot of the Pyrenees. Wolves were present, near to us, this just made the whole thing so much more beautiful, our mission of Football Fishing had driven us to an oasis of some immensity. To be fair I didnt care if I caught or not, I was just so happy to be bank side on the longest day of the year, how perfect!

Alarms off:

At one moment during the session I asked Angel my right hand man to switch off his alarms and just wait for his reel to sound, actually all the team did it, if we got a run we had to call ‘ahoy’, like the pirates we arrgh. Within 1hr. Angel gave the call ‘ahoy’, he was into a very spirited fish. The run had come from about 8m of water at a light casting range, no more than a 40m chuck. The heavy plated Mirror was strong and gave a good tug, but Angel soon had him under control and in the net. First goal, ole. Not long after this fish my rod obliged, again from 8m of depth at about 45m range, I knew she was no beast, but I didnt want to drop it, and I was testing a new venture rod, and some braid out, making the catch all the more exciting. I could feel every lunge the fish made, and lunge she did. The kit and my Insizor hook and Kryston Super-nova did well and in a short while I had a small and very nervous common carp in the net. T.B.C (read more in issue 5 of CARPdiem).