VOLKENING LAKE

[trevor]

Pat and myself ventured out again this weekend with a trip to Volkening Paddle Boat lake at Schaumburg.

This lake is full of mainly small carp, between 10 oz and 1 1/2 lbs. It was my turn to have first choice of swim, so I took the right hand side of the paddle boat dock. I tried to tempt Pat into a blank looking open water peg to my right, but he was not having any part of that. He took the left hand side of the dock.

As soon as we put a bait in the water bites were immediate, which was fantastic, we were on for hopefully a good days fishing.

We battled it out for nearly 5 hours, with the lead changing hands many a time during the day. The end result, was Pat with a very nice 72lbs, with myself just sneaking the win with 82lbs.

But we both had a great days fishing, with bites constant all day.

Cheers Pat.

Trevor

[Patrick Mills]

It was fun - about 210 carp between us

Good job Trev, your UK experience definetely paid off! Either that or I'm a bit of a muppet (probably the latter).....
Pat

[trevor]

Fishing commercials in the UK that at which time were filled with many small carp, was very similar to fishing Volkening the other day. It actually reminded me of fishing Billhook lake which I fished and won matches on quite frequently. It becomes a speed thing when bites are coming so quickly.

But a geat fun day it was.