Having caught the first fish (a small roach) I got excited for my day's fishing. Except that was it for hours! Mat sat there catching fish after fish while I failed to get a single bite. Until around early afternoon when I felt my rod bend and my strings tighten....I had hooked A CARP!!! People spend days and thousands of pounds on equipment and not get a bite from one of these bad boys and there was me with my hired kit and Green Giant sweetcorn niblet bait fighting this beast!
I had Mat and two old boys excitedly telling me what to do, my arms were straining from the fight this monster was giving me and my head was still thinking WTF, this shouldn't be happening, this is only the second time I've done this! After what felt like hours but was really only a few minutes, I managed to get the beast to the margins for Mat to net in. Except he didn't and my carp got away. Arrrggghhh!!!! I'm still not entirely sure how it happened. Mat thinks he may have contributed to the string snapping when he tried to net or it was just one of those things but all I know is there is a 8 - 10lb carp out there smoking a cigar, drinking whiskey and laughing at me! Needless to say, the one that got away was the talk of the fishery for that afternoon.
It was all very disappointing and my haul of five fish compared to Mat's twenty-five equally so. But fishing just like life has good days and bad days.
A few pics below of Mat with some of his haul of fish and more stunning coastline from Thursday taking in Tenby by moonlight where we had a lovely dinner, the water lilies at Bosherston, Huntsman leap and the stunning coastline and 'secret' beaches by St Govans Head.
A beautiful part of the world definitely worth visiting. Thank you Pembrokeshire.
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