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Fishing Diary 2004 27-29/7 Lake Mörtsjön - Henrik & Oskar Sun, no wind.Not much activity during neither evening nor morning, but, as usual in this lake, the carp had a bit of breakfast at least. Around eight (a whole hour early, they generally break fast at 9 - sharp!) the first morning Oskar hooked and landed a small mirror. The second morning, at a quarter to nine (15 minutes early) Oskar was away (or rather his mainline maple-8 boilie was). He had no troubles subduing the fish. And what a fish! Not all that large, but a perfect specimen none the less.
1/8 "Porsch lake" - Henrik & PG Sunny, but not too hot.PG started with a spell of bad luck. One carp roared off under(!) the shore, and ended up attached to the roots of a small bush some 10 meters up in the woods. The hook straightened after a while. 1/8 05:05 - southeastern corner (far margins) - I caught a 6.4 kg carp on a "The source" snowman fished over a scattering of some 50 boilies.
1/8 10:22 - southeastern corner (far margins) - I caught a tiny, but good looking, mirror. It looked like a wood carving!
1/8 15:00 - southeastern corner (far margins) - another take at the same spot. Lost the carp (approx. 8 kg) close to the net due to a snapped hook. 1/8 18:25 - northwestern corner (middle of lake) - time to move. After about an hour in a new pitch a caught a very spirited common over a scattering (~150) of tutti+banana boilies. The carp took a tutti+banana/ice-cream snowman (must have had a sweet tooth).
8-10/8 "Badluck Lake" Hell's corner pitch - Henrik & PG Warmest days of the summer ~30 degrees 2-4 m/s s-wind. Not the most spacious pitch ever fished (and PG had the luxurious one!) 8/8 evening - Some bubbles in my swim. 9/8 04:00 - Screaming take on a "The source" 18mm pop up fished under the rod tip. I woke up, a bit unsure where (and even who) I was. Found my senses somewhere and rushed to my rods. All alarms were screaming! Grabbed the closest rod and struck. Wrong rod (of course). Grabbed the right rod (the one on the right, and as it turns out, the one with the fish on) instead. The line was running under the other two rods, dangerously close to a submerged tree, through some reeds, and out into open water. The only noticable effect of disengaging the baitrunner was that the carp accelerated! We could see the broad back of a decent carp actually above the surface some way out in the lake. And then the line went limp and a bow-wave continued out into the lake. I was certain that the line had parted, but on reeling in I could see that nothing seemed to be wrong. The continental boilie hook (size 4) was sharp and there was naught wrong with the line. Weird. No more action of any sort for the rest of the day.  Damned. Just lost (if you can loose something you never had) the carp... 10/8 06:00 - Constant liners on PG's method feeder rod, baited with plastic corn. Suddenly he got a screaming take - and strikes into.. Nothing. Weird again. Nothing at all happened on the other rods, when we reeled in we found out why. We had no baits on (except for the plastic grains). The crayfish had gone wild, we could even see them crawling around in search of food in the margins. They had even eaten all the tungsten on my anchor tubing, and the putty on my rig! 12/8 Lake Mörtsjön northwest end - Henrik & Oskar Weather changed from sunny and clear to windy and clouded abruptly. 2 carp jumped when I was in the boat - on my way to the chosen pitch. One large red one, "Vårtan"? Quite a few tench took my "the source" pop ups fished with "dynamite sticks" loaded with mini-pellets, breadcrumb and fish oil. No sign of the carp though. The lake felt alive though, so we decided to return in a few days and fish through the night.  The best tench - a very long and lean 2.8 kg one. 13-14/8 Mörtsjön northwest end - Henrik & Oskar Strong N-wind. ~17 degrees. Clouds, rainy morning.13/8 - evening: one tench and one small roach(!). 14/8 09:00 - Mörtsjön's magic hour. Oskar had a decent take on a maple-8 boilie. He lost it almost straight way. Naught else happened. Guess the lake was not all that alive anyhow! 19-20/8 Lake Mörtsjön northwest end (once again) - Henrik & Oskar SE-wind. ~20 degrees. Rain during the day. Moist warm night.19/8 22:00 - Small tench on an active-8 maple/icecream hi-viz snow man in the far margins. 19/8 22:40 - Steady take on the far margin rod. Struck into solid resistance. The carp kited slowly to the left, turned to the right, continued turning - I gained a few metres on each turn, but was powerless to move it whenever it did not want to. About halvway in (somewhere out in the pitch darkness) the hookhold suddenly gave. Disappointed I reeled in my rig, the hook (a talon-tip) turned out to have turned (as it were). I rebaited the spot and put a new rig (with the same bait) out again. 20/8 05:45 - The exact same thing repeated itself (same rod, same bait, same typ of fight), only this time the carp stayed on. When the carp was finally secure in the net I was shaking all over. The fish was a stunning linear mirror, and a new personal best at 10.38kg.  I want it to look its best! 20/8 09:15 - When we had more or less given up on getting any more takes, even the bubbling had stopped, Oskars alarm burst into life. Something had taken a liking to his Monster Squid/active-8 maple snow man fished under the rod tip. After a fairly brief struggle we could net a 4.82 kg mirror carp. 28-30/8 Lake Mörtsjön northeast part - Henrik & PG Strong W-wind. Sunny. PG caught a small tench on a tiger nut. I had one brief visit from a carp in the middle of the day. No other sign of any fish of any sort. The lake was fairly crowded with some 5-6 other people present. Noone caught anything. Weird.11-12/9 Lake Mörtsjön "car park bay" - Henrik & Oskar SW-wind. 20+ degrees day and night.11/9 21:30 - Screaming take for Oskar on a hi-viz pineapple popup fished over a PVA-bag of pellets. The carp was obviously not large, but when it was close to the margins it managed to dive into the reeds and get stuck. It was on for quite a while, but managed to shed the hook after a few minutes. 11/9 23:50 - I awoke with a start, feeling as if someone had struck me over the head with a mallet! All was quiet, so I tried to get back to sleep - but I could not relax. After some 10 minutes of failing to sleep my alarm beeped a few times, and then my rod started shaking. I was snag-fishing locked up and something tried to swim off with my rod! I lifted the rod and was met by a solid resistance, the like I had never felt (nor have I since). The fish swam where it damn well pleased, up and down the bay for some 15 minutes. At times stopping and just, seemingly, resting on the bottom. Finally I coexed it into the waiting net, and was stunned when I saw an enourmously broad carp in the light of the torch. the size 8 Fox series 2 hook with the 14mm maple-8 boilie looked tiny in its huge mouth (an orange impaled on a gaff would have looked more suitable).  The sight... 12/9 01:20 - Me and Oskar are still chatting about the fish that is in the sack (and talking ourselves out of taking a midnight swim with a local lass (who was very young and incredibly drunk)) when Oskars alarm signaled a take. A carp had picked up a maple-8 single hookbait. This carp was landed without mishaps. 'twas a lean fighting machine of some 7.5 kg.  The lean mirror In the morning we took some photos and weighted the carp, which turned out to be "Mimmi" the lakes largest resident, to 14.8 kg (90*73cm). A new PB.
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