Yeomadon, Devon

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I'm on holiday for a week in September, staying in a cottage at Yeomadon farm, the fishing comes free with it. I visited this place last year whilst on holiday and the farmer kindly lent me some tackle so that I could have a morning fishing. Left it all in the barn so that I could pick it up early the next day. The rod was fully tackled up and waiting for me when I got there! There are four ponds, scaling up in carp size.

I'm looking to get a few early morning and evening sessions in. Can I use my margin pole for stalking the carp around the edges of the ponds and what rig should I use? I was thinking one of those tiny floats (dibber?)? The pole is 24 rated and has a top with 20 elastinc in it. I have some quality 8lb too.

Yeomadon

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Just returned from a beautiful week here. 7 days of dawn and dusk fishing for carp on the surface. There are four small lakes all stuffed with hungry carp and I pretty much had all of the lakes to myself the whole week. Some of the colouring on the carp I caught were stunning. The only down side was having to get through the masses of small carp to catch some of the bigger ones. The largest lake is stocked with about 40 carp up to 20lb but these are also the biggest breeders so this lake was teeming with fry and juvenile carp. I was only prepared for surface fishing so it was a case of fishing a swim for a few minutes trying to attract one of the larger specimens before the packs of young carp arrived. I did manage a 13.5lb common from this lake on a mixer biscuit, no rig, just line hook and bait, which was a real arm ache experience.

I averaged about 10 decent carp a day between 2lb and 7lb. The fighting difference between a 2-4lb carp and a 5lb+ one was very noticeable!

I used Ped. Chum mixers for the first half of the week until I tried a loaf of crusty bread then I was converted Surface fishing is so exciting and frustrating at the same time...