October was the best month last year to be on Mustang, but this year I was disappointed with how the fishing went. The water temperature crashed from 17 degrees to 11 degrees in just six days and it really slowed things up. However now the water temperature has settled, Mustang is fishing and has fished really well in November. If I remember last November was slow, especially compared to October, so things are the other way round this year.
I dug Mustang Lake to be good in the winter months, 6ft pretty much flat all over with just one deep area. There are no features for the fish to hold up in and now the weed has vanished the carp have to keep moving around the lake. When carp are moving in the winter they're very catchable and that is the case on Mustang at the moment. You only need to fish over twenty or so boilies in the open water to get a bite. Small PVA bags full of boilie crumb or old school stringers are working a treat. The anglers keeping it simple are making it look easy when the fish switch on. Nash Amber Attract, Mainline Cell are good winter boilies and I've seen several carp caught in the last two weeks on both.
If you want pike action then bring plenty of sea dead baits and enjoy the sport. I watched two lads have over 12 pike in a morning the other day. Three of them were doubles as well. Please just look after them on the bank and get them back in the water quickly as they're not as tough as many anglers believe.
I will finish off by saying I'm pretty confident there are over 100 twenties in Mustang now. It really is becoming the lake I set it out to be when I started the project five years ago. As I write this no one is on the lake, it's a pukka day and I saw three carp roll in the morning as I walked round and planted a tree. I might even get my rods out for the afternoon.
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