Ballasjön Premier Report
TEAM CARPOHOLICS
Ballasjön
27th April – 1st May - Carp Fishing Premier 2004
We arrived at Ballasjön on the evening of Tuesday 27th April for our premier Carp fishing trip of the new season.
We chose to fish the shallow water at the far end of the lake and prebaited with, corn, hemp, pellets and loose boilies.
I (Chris) waded out into the shallows and baited up in about 2 feet of water, then I “walked the hook baits out” and placed them by hand in and around the baited areas.
By this time it was about 9pm when I had put out all 6 baits.
We (Matthias & I) used 6 different hookbaits to see which the carp responded to best. If we picked up a carp that night then the next night we would change all 6 hookbaits to “that flavour”.
We were woken the next morning (Wednesday 28th April) by screaming seagulls who were dive bombing our baited areas, and eating the pellets that were floating on the surface!!!!!! They were supposed to be sinking pellets and the seagulls made sure that there were NO FISH in that swim on that morning. WE WERE NOT HAPPY!!
On Wednesday afternoon we decided to move swims and fish the deeper water, it took us 3 hours to move all the kit 100meters to our new swim.
But the move paid off as at 23.20hrs that night we were hauled out of our sleeping bags by the glourious sound of a screaming delkim!!!!!
It was one of my rods (as we both have Delkims) that was playing that Delkim tune. We landed the carp in the cramped swim but not before Matthias broke his knee cap when he fell on a rock.
He sacrificed his own safety rather than drop the carp on the rock, which was in the landing net at the time. What a nice guy J
The Salter scales went down and touched 7.8kg which is now my Balla PB J.
My previous Balla PB was 7.7kg, I caught 5 carp in balla last year at 7.7kg.
Photos were taken and we went back to bed, Matthias was now in serious pain with his knee and we had to wait 24hrs before Lina (my girlfriend and also a carpfisherWOMAN) came with the car to get him to hospital.
The next day (Thursday 29th April) Matthias was hobbleing round our swim like a wounded soldier, and the inevitable happened, YES, he fell in!!! :-)
Lina tuned up that evening and I drove Matthias to hospital in Borås.
I got back to Balla and rebaited the rods for the night. I put Scopex & Liver 20mm pop ups on all my 3 rods as that’s what took the 7.8kg the previous night.
Lina also put Scopex & Liver on her 3 rods and we settled back for the night.
Nothing happened that night, but the next morning at 10.30am the disco delkims sang once more. Result a nice 6.6kg mirror carp.
We never had anymore runs until the next morning (Saturday 1st May) where I had 2 runs in 30 minutes. I lost one as my hooklength snapped and I lost the other in snags………….. however I did manage to get very wet!!!! :-(
I had 1 more run on Saturday but lost that one aswell in the snags!!!!
All 5 runs were on Energy Baits Scopex & Liver pop ups. MY FAVORITE!!!!
2 Mirror Carp Caught 7.8kg & 6.6kg and 3 carp were lost.
Chris Thornhill – TEAM CARPOHOLICS
Ballasjön
27th April – 1st May - Carp Fishing Premier 2004
We arrived at Ballasjön on the evening of Tuesday 27th April for our premier Carp fishing trip of the new season.
We chose to fish the shallow water at the far end of the lake and prebaited with, corn, hemp, pellets and loose boilies.
I (Chris) waded out into the shallows and baited up in about 2 feet of water, then I “walked the hook baits out” and placed them by hand in and around the baited areas.
By this time it was about 9pm when I had put out all 6 baits.
We (Matthias & I) used 6 different hookbaits to see which the carp responded to best. If we picked up a carp that night then the next night we would change all 6 hookbaits to “that flavour”.
We were woken the next morning (Wednesday 28th April) by screaming seagulls who were dive bombing our baited areas, and eating the pellets that were floating on the surface!!!!!! They were supposed to be sinking pellets and the seagulls made sure that there were NO FISH in that swim on that morning. WE WERE NOT HAPPY!!
On Wednesday afternoon we decided to move swims and fish the deeper water, it took us 3 hours to move all the kit 100meters to our new swim.
But the move paid off as at 23.20hrs that night we were hauled out of our sleeping bags by the glourious sound of a screaming delkim!!!!!
It was one of my rods (as we both have Delkims) that was playing that Delkim tune. We landed the carp in the cramped swim but not before Matthias broke his knee cap when he fell on a rock.
He sacrificed his own safety rather than drop the carp on the rock, which was in the landing net at the time. What a nice guy J
The Salter scales went down and touched 7.8kg which is now my Balla PB J.
My previous Balla PB was 7.7kg, I caught 5 carp in balla last year at 7.7kg.
Photos were taken and we went back to bed, Matthias was now in serious pain with his knee and we had to wait 24hrs before Lina (my girlfriend and also a carpfisherWOMAN) came with the car to get him to hospital.
The next day (Thursday 29th April) Matthias was hobbleing round our swim like a wounded soldier, and the inevitable happened, YES, he fell in!!! :-)
Lina tuned up that evening and I drove Matthias to hospital in Borås.
I got back to Balla and rebaited the rods for the night. I put Scopex & Liver 20mm pop ups on all my 3 rods as that’s what took the 7.8kg the previous night.
Lina also put Scopex & Liver on her 3 rods and we settled back for the night.
Nothing happened that night, but the next morning at 10.30am the disco delkims sang once more. Result a nice 6.6kg mirror carp.
We never had anymore runs until the next morning (Saturday 1st May) where I had 2 runs in 30 minutes. I lost one as my hooklength snapped and I lost the other in snags………….. however I did manage to get very wet!!!! :-(
I had 1 more run on Saturday but lost that one aswell in the snags!!!!
All 5 runs were on Energy Baits Scopex & Liver pop ups. MY FAVORITE!!!!
2 Mirror Carp Caught 7.8kg & 6.6kg and 3 carp were lost.
Chris Thornhill – TEAM CARPOHOLICS
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