Sunday 24/07/2016 - Windmill Fishery Open - Match Lake

It was Beefeater for breakfast with Bela, Geoff and Tim then on to Windmill Fishery. All our nets were put out to dry before the draw.

In to the draw bag and out come wooden counter 13 – unlucky for some. The peg is on the bottom bank which hasn’t been fishing that well recently, so a tad disappointed. However, the optimist was hoping to catch some decent Carp in the last hour or so in the LH margin. The wind was unusually light for this venue but was blowing at me at 11-o-o clock.

I initially set up a 4x16 Jolly to fish the “The Gabe” at top set plus two in five foot of water. A 0.4 gram for top set out in front in three foot of water, plus another paste rig a 0.3 gram Barnett on the top-set for the LH margin in twenty inches of water.

I fed the two paste lines with hard fours and the Jolly line with “the Gabe” mix. I didn’t expect to catch on the paste until the last two hours. Starting on the Gabe with 4mm expander I started catching 3-4oz Skimmers right off. I kept these coming for the first two hours topping up the feed accordingly.

I decided not try the in front paste top-set line and abandoned it. I did however; keep trying the margin with paste and in hindsight wasted far too much time and bait trying to catch Carp which only resulted in one 5lb 8oz Common, so no more on this no hoper. It was back on the tiny Skimmers until two hours to go, when I decided to have a practice with the caster so set up the Ronnie rig with caster over caster. Plenty of tiny Rudd around but very few Ronnie’s but did have the odd tiny Skimmer.

I weighed the one Carp and 16lb 4oz of Silvers for first in the Silver and a poor on the day total of 21lb 12oz (silvers winner pictured right with the match winner sucking on his chemical pipe)

The match was won by Shaun Townsend (pictured right with his some of his catch) with 128lb 8oz from peg 10. Shaun caught short out in front using 8mm meat over cupped 8mm meat and later in his LH margin using meat over meat and pellet combo.

Bela was won out of the money by 2lb but decided to put a 4lb fish back after netting it!!

Full Result:

1. Shaun Townsend 128-08-0 peg 10
2. Tim Ford 98-10-0 peg 6
3. Mark Summerhaze 86-0-0 peg 20
4. Bela Bakos 84-06-0 peg 8
5. Martyn Rayett 82-08-0 peg 25
6. Gerry Walsh 56-07-0 peg 18

Top Silvers:

1. Mike Nicholls 16-04-0 peg 13
2. Shaun Townsend 10-08-0 peg 10

Weigh Sheet: