Waking today it was clear I was paying for the excellent days fishing yesterday on the waggler with my RH wrist in agony. Why is it that we grip the rod handle so tight – I think it’s the tension created in the anticipation of a bite. I had planned to fish Bitterwell, which is a rarity for a Monday as I am usually doing the weekly shop with the Special One. After a pain killer I decided to go but fish the pole short for Ronnie’s with caster.
Like most fisheries the water had gone clear, but because of the overcast conditions I thought the big Ronnie’s might put in an appearance. In to the draw box and out comes peg 8 which is on the far bank, two pass the big Oak towards the changing rooms. That’s OK as it can be good for the Silvers. On the end peg 7 was match organiser Steve Dawson who was having great difficulty in reconciling the pools money, he seemed to be one payment short. After Steve talk himself around the pegs everyone appeared to have paid – half hour later the penny drops and it was Steve himself who hadn’t put his tenner in - Duh!!
I set up two Ronnie rigs to fish with caster or dead reds the only baits I took. Starting on the 11.5 metre rig with single caster potting a few with the Kinder pot resulted in a lost foul hooked something – not sure of the species. With an hour in to the match I had nothing to show from this line. So it was on to the 4 metre whip again with single caster over loose fed caster. This resulted in about a dozen Ronnie’s and some tiny micro Perch. However, the swim died and with an hour to go |I decided to call it a day so weighed in my 3lb and packed up to take some photos instead.
The Lake fished hard but on schedule 15 minutes after the all out fish were topping everywhere because the light had gone.
The match was won by Terry Church (pictured right with one of his two big Carp) from peg 12 with 26lb 3oz. Terry caught on the maggot feeder fished out to the aerator with triple red on the hook.
The Silvers was won by Steve Dawson from peg 7 with 8lb 14oz. Steve caught the majority of his fish on the waggler, but needed to swap around to keep them coming although spasmodic.
Runner up in the Silver was Chris Davis with a quality Ronnie’s to 1lb (pictured right), caught on his favourite chop worm method.
Poor Ryan Jordan (pictured lower right) who drew fancied peg 1 thought he had scraped in to the coin until the last angler weighed in Beat him.
Full Result:
1. Terry Church 26-03-0 peg 12
2. Norman Ferris 22-02-0 peg 13
3. Ryan Jordan 19-06-0 peg 1
4. Lee Waller 18-0-0 peg 9
5. Steve Dawson 11-06-0 peg 7
6. Noel Fletcher 10-09-0 peg 11
Top Silvers:
1. Steve Dawson 8-14-0 peg 7
2. Chris Davis 8-05-0 peg 3
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