by Shaun Harrison

Just spent a week-end in real heavy winds. the Cambridgeshire lake I am fishing seems to always have a gale blowing across it. I guess because of the size of the place 1 3/4 mile around the bank then the wind builds up more momentum across it than it would appear to do on smaller sheltered lakes. Also Cambridgeshire isn’t the sort of place you go off on a hill walking or mountaineering holiday – it is pretty flat.

By Sunday morning I was having waves crashing over the rods and hitting the bobbins which kept giving me false bleeps on the Delkims. I hate false bleeping and soon found myself employing a old trick of mine and that is to hang the bobbins in front of the alarms instead of between the alarms and the reels. This instantly cuts out false bleeping. You can visually spot a drop back and a conventional forward take triggers the alarm once the bobbin hits the rod.

I will add here that you can fish tight too but the water I was fishing only allows leads to be used up to a certain size so a tight line would have caused them to move along the bottom and snag the rig in weed.

I find with Delkims working on a vibration system – even a drop back will give the odd bleep with the bobbin in front of the alarm – especially if you place your bobbins over the water where the wave action gives plenty of vibration back up the line. The picture above shows Brook my carp dog watching for signs for me. This was before it became too rough. As you can see from the picture the bobbins are still in the usual place. Shortly after I re-positioned them.

A simple trick which I have never seen anyone else employ but you do know if you have a bleep – something is definately happening.

I ended up with three carp to 20lb plus and all gave conventional takes with the bobbin slamming into the rod and the alarm screaming.

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