According to the BBC Bela’s work would be rained off, so
fishing it is then. I tried to book into the Viaduct cost cutter but left it
too late due to the limited number of pegs available on Lodge and Match the
match was full. So I booked us into Ivy House - Kingfisher Canal
The turnout was a bit disappointing, but I guess this is
due to the general decline in match fishing, but more so to do with small clubs
forming with limited membership fragmenting the potential larger matches. Into the draw coffee tin and out comes end peg 15. I was told it was an out and out
Carp peg. In support of this I have seen some better Carp caught from the peg,
so was hoping I could catch a few. I was expecting a good result. Bela’s
drawing arm didn’t let him down pulling peg 7 - again, a good Silvers peg, we
wanted to swap.
What I like about this Canal is the way Andy has pegged it
with the prevailing winds off your back and the sun behind lends it’s self to comfortable
fishing. It’s hard enough as it is in these recent times with the rain and wind
battering us.
I didn’t have any company today as Val was too far away on
peg 13 to have any form of conversation. I set up a Speedy to fish the margins
with maggot, a 4x14 Winter (extra two foot of water had been delivered) to fish
the 4mm expander at top-set plus one, the final rig a 0.3g paste float to fish
at various lengths along the end bank where I expected to catch some lumps.
Meanwhile Val had to return home to get his top-sets, good job he lives close
by and not in Bristol .
I fed two places along the margin with a pot of hard 4’s and
started to loose feed reds down the RH margin. Starting on the 4mm expander
over micro resulted in a couple of small carp but found I had to re-bait four
times due to missed bites before actually hooking one – very frustrating. I’ve
not had this before and was eager to find out what was causing this – liners,
Ronnie’s, Perch I couldn’t come to any conclusion that was until we were
driving back and now believe it was the small carp taking the drop shot
mistaking it for micro. Next math I will test this by pumping up some 2mm
expander. To end the frustration I switched to paste and caught on the top-set
to the end bank and had about 20 small Carp. My calculation was I could put 60
of these Carp to be safely under the fishery limit of 50lb. I thought I needed
to catch some of the bigger Carp so went top-set plus three along the end bank
but could only catch similar small Carp. Fishing paste this long for small Carp
isn’t sensible if you can catch then shorter. So tried the maggot rig and was
surprised to start catching Silvers in a peg I was assured there wasn’t any! In
20 minutes I had a bout 15lb including four Tench and two decent Skimmers and a
host of Perch. I had been having problems with the elastic in one of my
top-sets and should have changed it but, you know how it is. I lost the lost on
another Tench. Luckily Adrian
on peg 6 retrieved the float for me. The upshot was I messed about with paste
and maggot until the end catching only one decent Carp on maggot.
I weighed 22lb 2oz of Silvers (where there are none, should
have fished for them all match, but wouldn’t have beaten the Silvers winner).
My 40 Carp weighed 29lb 8oz for a total of 51lb 10 oz, a decent days fishing
with plenty of bites and action.
The match was won by Bela (pictured below with the Silvers
winner) from peg 7 with 71lb 8oz. Most of his larger Carp coming from his LH
margin using triple maggot (two side by side an upside one) fished over DR’s.
The Silvers was won by Andy Gard with a decent weight of
41lb 8oz from end peg 3. Andy caught on worm over GB laced with chopped worm.
Well done matey. I thick Andy regrets not spending some time fishing for Carp
as he was on for a double bubble pick-up.
With a bit of drizzle on the way to the fishery and some on
the way home seem to nullify Bela’s guilt for not working today. The Pinky Ponk
also helped in Bar-Gar-Age I think – another memorable day out. The van now has
four double bubbles and a single with me dipping out today.
Finally, I hear that Martin Rayett whilst fishing peg 17 at
Acorn Fishery on the Tuesday cost cutter that whilst shipping back over the
fence behind him had the end of his MAP 901 pole bitten off by the resident
horse. The funnier part was he expected the owner to compensate him!
Result Overall:
- Bela Bakos 71-08-0 peg 7
Silvers:
- Andy Gard 41-08-0 peg 3
Weigh Sheet:
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