Another beautiful autumn day with temperature well above
average, with that unique English nip in the air. This added to a pleasant
drive to the fishery.
Two large breakfasts were devoured, me having passed my
black pudding and tomatoes to Bela Bake-off.
Another good turnout with 28 fishing. There are more
consistent Wonga pegs than others but to predict the winning peg is difficult, because
the winner has come from a multitude of pegs. Second in the draw queue and out
came peg 8 – happy with this, but always concerning when the section pegs are
so spread out. Bake-off drew peg 45 which I didn’t fancy with so many pegs in
around him.
The Lake was flat calm and
with bright sunshine it was going to hard I thought especially for catching
Skimmers. So the plan was to go out and out for the Ronnie’s and hopefully the
odd Skimmer. So I set up a 4x14 jolly and the Ronnie rig both to be fished at 4
metres, the Jolly on the deck for Skimmers over GB laced with caster and dead
maggot and the other up and down over loose fed caster.
I put the Ronnie rig in the margin to assess the depth and
found 30 inches just a few inches out from the bank so ideal for Carp later in
the match so set a combo rig of paste and a 4x12 jolly for a bunch of dead
maggot up just in case.
I started by feeding two small balls of GB laced with caster
and dead reds. I started over this with the Jolly and caught small Skimmers and
Ronnie’s, but was dropping some so switched to the Ronnie rig where I stayed
for most of the match loose feeding over the odd ball of cupped GB. I did have
an accidental 4lb 6oz Common Carp on the Ronnie rig which is always
interesting, trying to save my hook length. However, the fishing wasn’t easy
with plenty of anglers struggling. The last hour was very hard so I did have a
look in the margin with both margin rigs which produce not even an indication.
My Silvers weighed 12lb 15oz and with the accidental Carp
17lb 5oz. This put me in for second in the Silvers coin.
I don’t seem to be able to pin down the bigger Skimmers
which are really needed to win the Silvers. It would be easy to be beaten by accidental Skimmers on this venue. So next time I intend to fish a additional
longer line with micro and soft pellet.
The match was won by Steve Waters (pictured right with some
of his better Carp) with a run away weight of 115lb 8oz from peg 31. Steve
caught down to the peg 30 pallet using dead maggot fished over dead maggot.
Steve fed about 3 pints throughout.
The Silvers was won by Joe Thompson (pictured lower right) with
20lb 8oz from peg 5. Joe initially caught a few long on soft pellet over micro
and later coming short catching some better Skimmers on double corn over micro.
Full Result:
- Steve Waters 115-08-0 peg 31
- Paul Blake 77-04-0 peg 23
- Martyn Lenaghan 67-07-0 peg 21
- Jamie Compton 53-05-0 peg 27
- Chris Cottrell 46-10-0 peg 29
- Glen Picon 44-02-0 peg 34
Top Silvers:
- Joe Thompson 20-08-0 peg 5
- Mike Nicholls 12-15-0 peg 8
- Steve Chandler 11-5-0 peg 12
Weigh Sheet:
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