Silverfox Match Angling: Sunday 16/07/2017 - Tony Rixon's Float Only League - Round Four - Landsend Fishery

Monday 17 July 2017

Sunday 16/07/2017 - Tony Rixon's Float Only League - Round Four - Landsend Fishery - Specimen, Match and John Walters Lake

Didn’t sleep well, eat too late I think. Bela arrived dead on the dot as usual. Driving to Landsend just outside the village Bela thought he saw a dead Piglet in the road. Amazing what hunger can do to a man. I prevented him from going back.

Went in for breakfast to see Steve Segar eating an egg and bacon sandwich with a knife and fork! He said it was to stop egg running down his knees, yes but he had jeans on – well nearly – see picture right. I offered to give him my jeans after the match and Bela offered him his shoes. I will Steve a Tie next match so we can truly call him Colin Segar.

Another nice breakfast, but you should have seen the look on Bela face when the small breakfast was put in front of him – don’t ever get between Bela and food.

The match was planned to be at Shiplate which we were all looking forward to, but due to a cock up over dates we found ourselves back to Tony Rixon’s favourite venue.

Into the draw tin and out comes peg 11. Very happy with this one because I have had 50lb weights of Silvers and plenty of Carp nets. I can compete with the 16 metre Carp Slayers on this peg because I can catch down to the pallet on peg 12 at a comfortable 10 metres. However arriving at the peg I couldn’t even see the peg 12 platform due to the dense trees that surround the venue which is gradually engulfing Match Lake. So my Jungle army training came into use and with my razor sharp machete – well my pocket knife, I fought my why through the undergrowth to reach the lake side where I could stand on the dry margin where I have previously fished! Twenty minutes later area cleared. However, I was hoping not to go down there.

For company I had matey Martin Rayet (pictured right – seriously concentrating) on peg 13 and Gentleman Nick Brown on peg 9.

Now dripping with sweat I set up a 0.3 Stew Barnett paste float for down to the now visible peg 12 and a 4x12 Winter to fish top-set plus three out in front in 4 ½ foot of water. Bugger no casters so it would be soft pellet over micro or maggot for the Silvers for which I would need the Ronnie rig.

I started on the soft pellet with the 4x12 over micro. I was determined not to get the carp in the swim so adjusted to feed accordingly which seem to work well catching skimmer nice and steady for an hour, everything about the fishing felt right. Then for some unknown reason after losing my first foul hooked Carp the swim completely, everything I tried to revive it failed. So on to the Ronnie rig with single maggot over loose fed maggot produced very small Ronnie’s. It was much too early to switch to the carp margin so decided to stay with this until the last two hours. I did have two accidental Carp on the Ronnie rig luckily they were small. It was now time for the margin with paste over hard 4’s. To start with I knew the Carp weren’t around as the Ronnie’s were tormenting the paste to death. It wasn’t long before the float sat still so knew it would soon disappear and it did. I would catch 2/3 carp before they backed off to the end bank. Warning; don’t follow them as the will back off further well put of reach, it’s a question of waiting for their return and they do. The fish were either near doubles of tiny 3lb fish. I thought Martin Rayett had beaten me because he had a 38lb head start with the Carp, however, I had completely under estimated the size of the fish particularly the larger ones.

My Silvers weighed 15lb 11oz and my Carp 97lb 5oz for a total of 113lb for a section win, fourth overall and second Silvers so plenty of coin options covered. And it was a pleasure to at last beat Tony on his favourite Venue and peg 7.

Bela was chuffed to pick section money by double default with 36lb only nearly 192 lb behind. I had how he caught all the way home!

Some say he puts Viagra in his butt section to stiffen his pole, all I know its The Trig again who won the match with 228lb 15 oz from peg 27. Trig (pictured right with his boss and Silvers winner) caught at 17 metres to the island in 12 inches of water using pellet over loose fed pellet.

The Silvers was won by Neil Mercer with 24lb 14oz from peg 24.

With a double bubble van it was back to Bar-Gar-Age for a Pinky Ponk Juice.

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