Break on club water yields 23lb common for Jack
Taska consultant Jack Cobb was delighted when a trip to his local syndicate water yielded one of the lakes larger common carp. He explained:

“I decided to have a week away from my usual syndicate lake due to my two main target fish being caught, so I thought I'd give a local club water a go, having done reasonably well on the lake in the past.

I turned up at the lake at first light and found a nice south westerly wind pushing towards an out of bounds bank. I decided to sit on the point of an island, and fish long towards an over hanging willow on the out of bounds bank, you can walk round that bank and bait up but I decided to bait up with my trusty throwing stick from my swim, to keep disturbance to a minimum. I fished two naked chods either side of the willow tree on a silty soft bottom and on my third rod I decided to use my version of a hinged stiff rig and that was placed down my right hand margin. 


The bite came at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the middle rod placed to the right of the willow just pulled up tight, and shortly after the tip wrenched round and I was in. After a spirited fight I managed to land a lovely long lean dark common which I was over the moon with. It pulled the scales around to 23lb- a cracking fish considering the size of the water.”