I have held a ticket for my local angling club Cambridge Fish Preservation and Angling society (CFPAS) since the late 1970's and have fished all it's lakes, ponds, pools, rivers and drains over the years. However there was one lake in 2003 that i had not fished and that was Block Fen B.
The second of two lakes on this part of the Fen it had all you could want as a carp angler, wild and windswept a gravel pit of about ten acres with a very low stock of carp.
My first session was on a warm, cloudy June day with a south westerly piling across the lake. I headed straight for the North east corner and setup my two rods in a small gap in the bushes. Whilst getting the rods out i heard the unmistakable sound of a carp leaping to my left and thirty minutes later i was astonished to see the bobbin hit the top and the alarm scream into action. I did do a few more sessions that year but it wasn't until the first week of September 2012 when i returned to fish it again. Eight years had passed and those doubles were now twenties and thirties, the lake had matured and i couldn't resist another go. What happened then can be seen in the film 'You only get one life', out next week.