Fishing with Ben Humber from Fox Rage.

Last year I met Ben from Fox at the Anglers Paradise Lure Weekend and was a great bloke, never laughed so much in my life.
Then a month or so later he ran a competition on his Facebook page "The journey of an all round angler" to have a day out fishing with him, and luckily I won the comp.
Due to my time restrictions it took a month or so to get out on the bank but I couldn't wait. 

So, Saturday 23rd January I left home at around 5:30am to meet Ben in stunning Somerset at 7:15am.
We met in a pub car park in the middle of nowhere and headed to the first stretch of River. 
Part of the competition was I could use all the Fox gear Ben uses, which was nice, saved bringing all my kit, although I use the same Fox Rage rod but Ben's reels are loaded with braid, which was all new for me.

Sadly due to some recent rain we did struggle on the first couple of venues but was really good fun, and getting used to Lure fishing as I don't do it a lot.
We moved onto another River after blanking, this one called the Huntspill River and looked incredible, just after arriving Ben landed a small Jack Pike and after continuing up a short while he had a call from a friend, a friend who just happened to have a Lake in his garden, and although Ben was allowed to fish it there was next to no access for anyone else so felt very privileged to be allowed on.
After a short drive we pulled up at house, and couldn't help but get very excited as the large wooden automatic gates parted and we drove along side the ultra modern house.
The lake was quite large, a fair few acres I would say, and absolutely stunning, tree lined on the far side and plenty of reeds in the near margin.

The lake was mainly stocked with hard fighting Rainbow Trout to over double figures along with a few Pike. We started by leap frogging each other casting 5g soft jigs across as far as they could go and sink and draw quite quickly. The bites started quite quickly with small Trout around a 1lb or so but soon slowed right up. We moved down onto the lawn swim and continued, we seem to have stumbled upon a pod of Trout as we couldn't stop catching and the odd Pike, some of the Trout were going 4-5lb and unbelievably good fun on these light setups. The bites started to slow right up so I burrowed a different lure from Ben and continued, soon I hooked something serious, a HUGE Trout came up then with a flick of the tail was off, gutted.

Shortly after I hooked another biggie, not quite as big but once landed went 8lb 8oz, easily a PB for me so over the moon.
With the time getting on we called it day, no idea how many Trout we caught and a few Pike each too, a truly amazing day and an amazing lake. The drive back to the car park where I left my van was spent remembering the incredible day we had just had and all things fishy.
After we said our goodbyes I started my journey home and was on such a high it seemed to sail by, an epic red letter day and one I will never forget.