Club Mix continues to catch em’!

I know I’ve gone on about The Club Mix quite a bit this last year in UK magazines, but I really can’t speak enough about it. It just keeps on working wherever I take it, the big fish really taking a liking to it. My latest biggie isn’t a monster by national standards, but it’s from a lake that’s very well stocked for its size, yet the Clubs still managed to single out one of the better fish on my first ever trip there.

I had a two-day trip planned for CEMEX Angling’s Chigborough Lake in Essex as part of a slot for Rob Hughes’s Extreme Carp Show which is to be aired on Sky Sports in the New Year. I knew virtually nothing about the lake other than what the bailiffs had told me, and settled into a swim known as Bailiffs Corner. It was a lovely swim with lots of overhanging bushes in a bay to the right and a nice gravel bar in front at 30 yards which stretched from the corner of an island to the right-hand bank.

Being a two-rod water, I put the left-hander off the gravel near the island over a handful of 20mm Clubs, with the right-hander going towards the overhangs on the same tactic. Almost immediately I was into a low-double mirror from the right, followed by a low-twenty on the left. The action was fantastic during the night, slowing down once day broke the next day. I’d landed five nice fish to low-20s. Nothing happened until dusk the next day when the action kicked off again. Each rod would go with some really hard fighting fish, and then at 8pm I struck into one I knew straight away was a decent lump. It kited to the right along the bar and then plodded its way towards me. It put up a great scrap in front of the cameras, and when it surfaced in front of the net I knew it was a decent kipper.

On the scales it went 32lb 8oz, a big mirror known as Two Scale. For my first ever time on the lake it certainly made me smile and just goes to show that Club Mix can produce the biggies without any pre-baiting whatsoever. It’s an awesome bait and has accounted for some great fish to myself this year, and like the rest of you I’m not out on the bank 24/7. I’ve a busy lifestyle, dashing here there and everywhere. To know there’s a bait around that can produce the goods without any previous introduction gives me masses of confidence every time I’m out there doing it.

The success of this bait globally is second to none, whether it’s monsters from Rainbow or biggies from your local lakes.

Crowy