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"A Week in September" by Stu Brookes

A book written by Stu Brookes who has used the Original Peach & Black Pepper boilies successfully for many seasons. There is an excert below and a complete chapter can be read here

After a few weeks break, the rods came back out in mid-September and I decided to do something a little bit different for a change and put out quite a bit of bait and sit on it for three days.  Although I didn’t catch anything over those three days, I was seeing the occasional carp stick its head out and I was also having some liners, so it was worth sticking it out.  By lunchtime on the Sunday everything seemed to go quiet in the swim. Whether they had eaten all the bait and done one, or whether the ever-strengthening south westerly wind had moved them I wasn’t sure but I’d had enough and chucked the majority of gear onto the barrow.  I had the Monday off work, so I moved into The Inlet on the Sunday afternoon for the last night of the session.  I cast the left hand rod down the out of bounds bank towards the first overhanging tree and the right hand rod was cast around a rod length to the right of that.  With a sprinkling of Original Peach boilies catapulted to the vicinity and the lines slackened right off, I stuck the kettle on.

During the afternoon, Gibraltar Mark hooked and landed The Comet Leather from The Black Hole.  Whilst Bacon popped round there to do the honours with the camera, I had a flyer on my left hand rod.  After kindly swimming away from the snags, she spent most of the fight in open water and then in the margins – the strong wind was helping by blowing her towards me.  I scooped her into the net and was soon looking down at my old friend The Big Linear, for the fourth time!  Having heard the buzzer when he was doing the photos for Mark, Bacon appeared at the back of The Inlet and enquired what I’d caught – “Brooksey’s pet” I replied! - Read more...