Silverfox Match Angling: Wednesday 18/06/2014 - Mike's and Tony's Short Pole Match

Friday 20 June 2014

Wednesday 18/06/2014 - Mike's and Tony's Short Pole Match - Campbell Lake

I look forward to this short pole match every year which is very popular with many other anglers.

With a 10 o clock draw and with only 50 metre walk from the Lodge we had a leisurely breakfast ably cooked by Chef Mark breakfast.

Although it’s a Mike/Tony match the only contribution by me is to book the venue, Tony does the rest as usual, what would we do with guys like this.

Didn’t mind where I drew today but ended up on a peg that I won this match from two years ago, corner peg 132. For company I had Glenn Bailey on peg 131 and Chris Fox on peg 133 who didn’t last the full term of the match – see his blog.

I was very optimistic of a good days fishing because the wind had been blowing down this end which the scum bore witness to.

No need to talk pole lengths as were all limited to top-set plus three sections of pole. With the number one missing from most top-sets we were probably fishing at 5.5 metres.

I set up two identical paste rigs 0.3 gram Silverfox pc paste floats one slightly shallower that the other for the margin under the Willow. In addition to the paste the only other bait was hard 4’s for feed. Within 5 minutes of fishing it was clear looking around the Lake that the fishing wasn’t going to be manic.

Glenn, Chris and I were soon playing our first Carp. Mine was about 10lb and the biggest fish all day. From this point on I struggled to catch out in front and spent a lot of the time down to the Right under the willow tempting the odd small Carp weighing about 2lb which are so difficult to get out of their chosen homes. I lost about four to the under water Willow branches even though I was pulling very hard to keep them out. Mean while Glenn was catching bigger Carp steady through the match taking second spot overall.

My dozen or so Carp weighed 48lb 3oz and my lonely Tench 2lb 2oz for a disappointing total of 50lb 5oz.

The match was won by Tom Mangnall (pictured below centre with the Silvers winner - Tom's the one hiding his Maver shirt logo behind Tony) with 124lb 6oz from peg 114. Tom started on meat which proved to be slow so switched to 6 and 8mm banded pellet over hard 6’s feed. Tom fed about one pint.

The Silvers was won by Tony Rixon from peg 123 with 22lb 10oz of Skimmers and Tench using 8mm banded pellet over hard 6’s – see his blog.

I must mention Tim Ford fishing his first match since major surgery converting him to a Dyson who took third spot beating Tony Rixon off the next peg by a significant margin even though they were fishing identical methods. Welcome back Tim.

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