A fight to remember

I have a carbon pole thats about 15 yrs old. It's only 5mtrs and really thin so I don't use it much. It's only seen silvers and an eel.
I went to the pond on Tuesday to find it really windy. It was impossible to fish a waggler and I didn't have a surfboard so I dusted off the pole.
Fishing from the third swim along the road side of the pond with corn just 6ft out from the plants on the left. I fed little and often, after about 2hrs I had a really feeble bite and when I struck it and it took off I realised it was a nice fish.
My No8 elastic (which Martin managed to squeeze down the top section, cheers mate) was really taking a streching and all I could do was hold on and pray that I didn't get smashed up.
As I took off a couple of sections it went for the plants near the bank so I decided to put them back on and just hold on.
After about 10 mins a really pissed off common carp surfaced and I managed to slip the net under her.
What a stunner, just shy of 7lbs.
I thanked her for a fantastic fight and slipped her back into the pond. What a day.

I might be in for a bigger pole with stronger elastic soon M!

Nice one - its amazing how much stretch some of these pole elastics take. Real heart in the mouth stuff.

It's why we all love catching carp, they are tough and unforgiving but just wait until you hook into oine of the bigger tench in the pond, so far big tench 5 anglers 0