I have been looking forward to the start of this league as
it is well attended and as expected was a sell out with four sections of six. Luckily as the weather was to take a turn for
the worse we started on Bridged Pool which has been fishing reasonably well –
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The match was won from peg 24 with 43lb 12oz by Dave Wride
(pictured lower right with his exceptional net of Skimmers). Dave “apparently” caught on either
dead red maggot or 3 mm expander over either GB or micro fished at 11 metres at
11 o clock.
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In to the very small draw bag and out comes peg 29. As I
have said before I really don’t mind where I draw – but the higher pegs haven’t
been fishing that well of late. However, I was peg D2 and expected the fishing
to get worse further down the section higher numbers, so I was the right end.
Also I had good company with John Smith on peg 30 – D1.
I decided on a negative approach setting up three rigs.
Firstly the usual Ronnie rig which produced just the one on caster. The other
two rigs were 4x16 Jolly’s. One with a 18 - 808 for the 3mm expander over micro
and the other a 22 – 808 for GB and Pinkie, otherwise they were identical
except for the depth as the bigger hook was to be fished out in front and the
smaller at 10 o clock both with 10 metres of pole.
I started by feeding a small amount of micro with a dash of
caster at 10 metres, holding back with the GB until I tested things. I started thrashing
around for the Ronnie’s and caster before going out with the 3mm expander where
I had a good 45 minutes catching Skimmers to 12oz regularly. I kept topping up
with micro gradually increasing the caster to micro ratio. The reason for
including the caster was for the Hybrids which can go to 2lb and well worth
catching. However, today this proved to be a mistake as I only managed to
attract Carp but couldn’t catch one. What followed was a difficult two hours.
It’s very difficult to reverse feeding so I stopped feeding the caster and
switched to GB laced with Pinkie. This produced a few more Skimmers but mainly
small Ronnie’s. Thinking I had made amends on my pellet line I switched back
only to be pestered by small Ronnie’s removing the 3 mm pellet before it got to
the bottom. I had to switch to a 2mm pellet to catch them. For the purists a
2mm pellet on an 18 – 808 looks ridiculous, but it works. It was a question of
feed a line and switch to the other and back again. I did have a bite every put
in but the fish were very small from here to the end of the match.
My weight very difficult to estimate and was pleased to put
12lb on the scales for third overall and a section second – a satisfactory
start to the league. The full section result is shown below which confirmed my
view if the section.
The match was won from peg 24 with 43lb 12oz by Dave Wride
(pictured lower right with his exceptional net of Skimmers). Dave “apparently” caught on either
dead red maggot or 3 mm expander over either GB or micro fished at 11 metres at
11 o clock.
Full Result:
1. Dave
Wride 43-12-0 peg 24
2. John
Smith 14-06-0 peg 28
3. Mike
Nicholls 12-0-0 peg 29
4. Pete
Greenslade 11-01-0 peg 16
5. Alan
Jones 10-04-0 peg15
6. Bob
“Medium Slice” Price 8-09-0 peg 7
Accidental Carp Pool is a roll over even though Terry Bruton
landed three but didn’t invest in the £2 pool!
4 comments:
Well, thats one of your records gone! Superb weight considering how difficult most of the lake fished.
Records are there to be broken. Credit where credit is due angling wise exellent display. However, I thought he was a bit of a post match plonker.
what was the record thats a good catch of silvers
The record was 43lb exactly so beaten by 12oz.
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