A late start today as I had to do a few things in the morning. Got to the lake at about 11.00 and to my surprise the reed swim was free. It was bright and warm but there was a southerly wind.

My first fish came at 11.50; a 6lb leather taken on legered flake. Soon after a fish slipped the hook.

Just after midday I retrieved the leger to find a solid resistance. There was no positive bite but 6lb 14oz common sprang into life once it knew it was hooked. The bait was luncheon meat.

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Things then really went quiet, as they often do over the middle of the day. This spell ended when I was broken by a good fish prior to taking a 5lb common in the margins on floating crust, just after 17.00.

I went back to leger to finish off the day and was rewarded with a fine 15¾lb mirror carp at 18.40, taken on luncheon meat. A good end to the day.

One sad development was that the mallards that had been proudly showing off their 11 chicks on the previous visit seemed to have suffered a disaster, in that I saw only the female with one solitary chick in tow.