I was really looking forward to fishing Match Lake, but hoping not to be on any of the first five pegs on Spring Lake allocated with the Match Lake section (got that one wrong – see later). However, because Match Lake is so shallow (3 feet) it is susceptible to change in temperature, which was to be the case today.
Captain Tom handed me peg 44. I was delighted; wind off my back/over my right Hand – spot on. Walking to my peg I spied a number of Skimmers rising in peg 42 at about 5 metres. Darren Baker arrived in next peg 45 and explained that he had fished peg 42 the day before catching about 20lb of big Skimmers on the pole with GB and Caster/Red Maggot, throwing in his left over bait in at 5 metres!! Darren didn’t do so well today though weighing in 2lb.
I set up a waggler to be fished ¾ over, a feeder/straight lead for tight over and a Skimmer rig to be fished at 11.5 metres. On the whistle I fed the waggler line with caster followed by four big balls of Skimmer GB laced with casters and Pinkie at 11.5 metres. As it proved it was a day when a device to remove all the GB would have been very handy. I hate hindsight.
I started on the waggler with double dead red and soon had a 12oz Skimmer in the net. It was ten minutes before I added a 12oz Perch, then a 1 ½ lb Tench – mixed bag then. I was aware that no one I could see was really catching, as it always happens at this point my swim all but died except for three quick foul hooked Skimmers to 2lb - Happy days. For the rest of the remaining three hours all I could muster was one more 2oz Perch and a 4 oz Skimmer. I weighed 8lb 12oz for 13 Points (I think). As with most anglers on the lake I didn’t have a bite on the pole line. And as for the straight lead tight over I had one small Perch, but was picking up too much rubbish on the hook to stay on it longer than 5 minutes (good excuse me thinks). As it transpired the Spring Lake Skimmers had moved from their normal haunts on peg 15 to 19 around to pegs 24 to peg 2 – Umm. And just when Fabio draws peg 17 - unlucky matey.
Unbelievably, with only one match remainig, team wise we are still in with a chance on picking up overall, scoring 58 points on the day lifting us to the dizzy heights of 2nd overall – but there is only five points separating the top five. Our good result today was primarily down to Captain Tom Mangnel with a Lake first, coming second overall (pictured right) and Bela Bakos with a Lake second.
The match was won by Steve Seagar (pictured right with the Silvers winner) with 105lb 8oz from peg 99 with thirteen Carp to 18lb. Steve caught all his fish on the straight lead using either popped up bread or meat fished on various hook lengths from 1 to 5 foot.
The Silvers was won by Tony Rixon (pictured bottom right in his shop, fastidiously preparing for todays match) with 43lb from peg 26. Tony caught …. See his blog, Tony better mention his moaning about it being the worse peg on the Lake!!
1. Steve Seagar 105-08-0 peg 99
2. Tom Mangnel 96-07-0 peg 123
3. Paul Greenwood 87-10-0 peg 110
4. Tony Creech 77-02-0 peg 115
5. Steve Jackson 65-02-0 peg 113
6. James Knight 60-06-0 peg 128
Top Silvers:
1. Tony Rixon 43-0-0 peg 26
2. Fred Roberts 26-13-0 peg 24
3. Mark Broomsgrove 24-05-0 peg 9
4. Vince Brown 19-04-0 peg 1
Teams on the Day:
1. Viaduct 71
2. Garbolino BVMG 64
3. Silverfox TM 58
4. Somerset Magic 57
5. Maver Veals Red 52
6. Sensas Thyers 49
7. Maver Veals Blue 49
8. Somerset Angling 47
9. Avon Angling 46
10. Keyford 41
11. Westerleigh 40
12. Langport 39
13. Viaduct Allstars 36
14. Viaduct Select 35
15. Team Jinx 34
16. Amigos 29
17. Mega Baits 21
Teams Overall:
1. Garbolino BVMG 214
2. Silverfox TM 213
3. Somerset Angling 212
4. Maver Veals Red 209
5. Viaduct 209
6. Westerleigh 181
7. Team Jinx 176
8. Viaduct Allstars 172
9. Avon Angling 171
10. Maver Veals Blue 170
11. Keyford 157
12. Somerset Magic 146
13. Sensas Thyers 138
14. Amigos 121
15. Langport 109
16. Mega Baits 102
17. Viaduct Select 101
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