Its been a while!.......

Its been a while since Stotty and Critch
have been able to get out fishing,
due to most lakes been froze over!
luckily enough there was a few days of warmer weather,
which managed to defrost the waters.
so they turned up to a new club water at the crack of dawn,
and was happy to find that there wasn't many other anglers on the lake.
both watching the water with eagle eye's Critch spotted a smallish carp top out,
"there's one" he said, "there's another" said stotty,
the fish were showing in the same vicinity, at about 100+ yards in the middle of the lake.
both Stotty and Critch knew they shouldn't neglect the signs,
so they got in the pegs opposite the showing fish.
stotty decided to set up he's bivvy first,
due to the fact that there was a strong cold wind blowing straight into them.
but critch was very eager and whacked a single pop-up out to the showing fish, within minutes he's rod toar off!!!
resulting in a small carp.
straight out again to the same spot and minutes later, the rod was off again!
within the time that Stotty was setting up he's gear Critch managed to land 3 carp just into double figures...
thoughout there stay critch landed 11 carp upto 16lb+ and losing 4 fish,
also stotty bagged 2 carp and a bream :/

1st picture is of a cracking 16lb 8oz common landed by Critch
2nd picture is a lean common weighing in at 11lb for Stotty
3rd is one of only 3 mirrors caught weighing in at 8lb for Critch
and last but no means least is a 13lb common for Stotty
Roll on the next session!
tight lines........