Today is the “Glorious 16th June”, the start of
the coarse fishing season, which is the date we have historically chosen for
our annual fishing holiday. However, because of the advent of Commercial
Fisheries and no close season on Canals it’s not so “Glorious” these days, but we
do have our holiday to look forward to instead.
This year we elected to visit Viaduct Fishery, choosing one
of the two new Lodges’ (pictured right – with Glenn Bailey stocking the Pinky
Ponk - more on the Lodges later). The line up is Mark Tanner, Bela Bakos, Glenn
Bailey, Martin “Woody” Woodington and me, with Tim Ford planning to come down
midweek for a couple of days to bank run for us and a good drink in the
evening. Unfortunately, Bela had to cancel because of the pressure of work; he
can only work when it’s not raining, so well behind!
Luckily Woody’s café open in time for this holiday, giving
our resident gourmet Chef a break.
I was hoping for any peg so long as the first two numbers
were 11. Not quite out came peg 130. Not one of my favourite pegs as it tends
to be a bit of a Carp Slayers peg with the lead and waggler the order of the
day. I must admit there were plenty of Carp showing out by the aerator. I
elected to ignore this and fish the usual short pole. The wind was again
blowing in to me at 1 o clock and was gusting in all directions. I set the
usual Skimmer rig and Paste rig to be fished at 7 metres and a paste rig for
the RH margin. Starting on the meat for the Skimmers I hooked and landed two
decent Carp, before I landing a couple of Tench and some hand size Skimmers.
The wind was a nightmare. I then had a blank period with no signs of fish. So I
switched to paste over micro, which only produced a small Carp. I was
struggling to say the least. I pumped up some expanders and tried them and did
have a few more hand size Skimmers. But I was getting pestered by the Ronnie’s
taking the pellet on the drop. I decided to walk the section to see what was
happening and from what I could gather everyone was struggling, so in with a
chance of coin, back to the peg and head down with meat which accounted for
three more Tench, two more Carp and more hand size Skimmers. The margin
produced nothing of mention – just some speared motherless.
My Silvers weighed in at 25lb 14oz and adding my five Carp
weighing 30lb 13oz for a total of 56lb 11oz. This left me third in the Silvers
and third in the bank section.
The match was won by Martin Lenaghan (pictured right) with
188lb 6oz from peg 119. martin caught long down to the end margin using 8mm
hard banded pellet fished over loose fed 8’s.
The Silvers was won by Silver guru Charlie Barnes (pictured
right) with 30lb 5oz from peg 80. Charlie caught on 4mm expander fished over wetted
hard 4’s fished at 10 metres up to the spit.
Glenn drew peg 85 on Carey and netted 10 Carp for 83lb 6oz
for section second and Woody on his first visit drew peg 123 on Campbell
Full Result:
1. Martin
Lenaghan 188-06-0 peg 119
2. Dan
“The Dude” Squires 167-05-0 peg 78
3. Jim
Cooper 161-10-0 peg 110
4. Phil
Caudwell 139-15-0 peg 115
5. Jon
Gray 125-12-0 peg 116
6. Nick
Ewers 111-01-0 peg 111
Top Silvers:
1. Charlie
Barnes 30-05-0 peg 80
2. John
Green 29-10-0 peg 126 (He’s Back)
3. Steve
Jackson 28-03-0 peg 129
4. Mike
Nicholls 25-14-0 peg 130
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