nice looking fish, top angling luke

Live bankside report, just had a 17.8lb ghostie !! An it's pretty bloody chilly !!

nice one Dave

had a couple and lost 1 out of st johns in an overnighter.

best of the 2

top stuff mate!!

I fished Great Linford Lakes, Parc Farm 1 from 16th to 23rd March, started off on a west bank swim, moved two fishless days later to the mussel swim on the east bank. Result, totally nackered from the move but six fish, best a common 20lb15oz, with plenty of rain, wind, and mud, (and a couple of bream). The general view was that the fish had gone off the feed, possibly due to too many fishing the lake over the weekend. I lost three sets of end tackle due to being cut off by the mussels and ended up using 30lb b/s Amnesia as a leader on one rod. I met a couple of smashing anglers up there, they even shared their barbie with me. I am looking forward to returning as soon as I can but I do not seem to be able to get to the lakes as often as I would like as other lakes I fish are nearer to home.

Well done bud !! is that 'mussel swim' the one on the far bank in front of a tallish tree about a third up ??

ive been done by mussels on there too !! in fact i bought in a snag covered in the stripy little razors !!

ill be doing basically all the easter hols down on either linford 1 or balckhorse... ill keep you updated on how i get on.. might even be longer if i get kicked out of sixth form lol i tend too take fishing more seriously than the courses i do.