Sorry for the long delay to respond to the forum ,but here we have the days account of what happened.
We all met at my house at 5.30am as i had to take her indoors to work, so that is the earliest we could set off.We made our way to Scotland, a1m past metro center,then a69 all the way to the motorway then off on the a75,followed that road until you get to crockerford,turn right and follow that road to cossak i think that is how you spell it, turn right and follow the road for about 20mins ,you will see the lock on the right hand side.I have definitely seen people over the other side of the lock with bevies last year ,but i don't know if they had stayed overnight ,i surmise they did as we got there about 4 in the morning[last year] and they were fishing with bevies already up.
Well about the fishing ,i will make it short and sweet. We arrived at about 8.30pm ,to find that there was a few lads already fishing ,but they were just far enough away from the spot we like so we were ok. Set up the pods and rods etc ,put mackerel on one smelt on the other and made myself comfortable ,after about 5 mins the alarm sounded and we were off and running ,waited for it to stop ,picked up the rod and waited for the second run,and sure enough off it went ,struck into it and we were connected to a good fighting small but very nice marked 2lb jack, released it back into the lake ,only to hear Micks alarm going off, he did the same and it was another good fighting 2lb er, just as we were unhooking that fish,i heard the gate open that gives access into the field,i looked over and saw the farmer making his way into the field with his pickup,he came straight over to us ,at which time i was having another run , so payed more attention to the run than the farmer,until he started shouting get off the lake ,i couldn't believe what i was hearing, as i turned around to speak to him he said get packed up and get off the lake , i tried to talk to him in a civil manner,but to all of my questions [IE why and what have we done ] was met with an irate farmer who said that there was a sigh on the gate to stop people fishing and was ranting that it was still on there at 6.00am this morning and we must have taken it down , to say the least this annoyed me ,as we had not seen any sign or we would have gone to a different lake, he then went over to the other lads and said the same to them .We then found out off the other lads that they had removed the sign and so no wonder the farmer was irate as he possibly thought we were there together,anyhow after 15minutes of fishing we had two fish and a dropped run followed by a run in with the farmer. We found the sign which just said "no public access until further notice"
We decided to go to castle douglas as i was near and is renowned for lots of runs .WE DIDN'T GET A SINGLE RUN ALL DAY,can you believe it ,well that brings me to the end of my belayed report,of a very eventful days fishing ,that started off so well and went straight down the toilet,hope we have better luck next weekend
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