With Bela still out with the Pensioners bug, Paul Haines stepped in and kindly gave me a lift down with Ray Bazeley. It was breakfast at the Hanham Wetherspoons. I must say Ray and Paul got it right when they substitute the sausage for the lashings of extra bacon – good one Ray.
With 32 fishing all the pegs on Specimen Lake were in the draw box – so a Lake to avoid me thinks. However, it wasn’t going to much better on Match Lake Match Lake Match Lake Lake for the Silvers and not a peg I would expect to win the section side from – but you never know though.
Arriving at the peg it was soon obvious that the Silvers were spawning all round the Lake . John Bradford said it was just the F1’s - I thought they didn’t breed!! There was no way I was going to fish 16.5 metre over to the far bank, 13 metres was going to be the maximum, but decided on 11.5 with the 13 metre butt acting as ballast. For this line I set up my 4 x14 Jolly for the 3mm expander over micro for the Silvers – converting it later to paste once I had emptied it! I also set up a 4 x 14 Jolly to fish meat at 7 metres to the right. For some reason I set up a Ronnie rig for the caster – which, as expected was a complete waste of time. For company I was sandwiched between the two Adrian’s – Adrian Clarke on peg 31 and Adrian Jefferies peg 29, which made conversation interesting and in stereo.
Starting on the 3 mm expander over the kindered micro resulted in a decent half hour or so, landing some Skimmers, one F1 and a 10 lb Carp and some Ronnie’s. Over the next hour all I could catch was the odd small Ronnie. So it was a far too early entry for the paste, which resulted in one 8lb Carp. That was it for the next hour. Time to switch to the meat line which resulted in one lost foul hooked Carp. I had kept feeding it but because I had got some meat slime by the Kinder pot it started to slip round the pole top and I accidentally started to feed the 4 metre line to my left. After finally feeding the 7 metres line I had no further indications. So I switched to the CW&C at 9 metres which was a waste on money - not one indication! By now Adrian Clarke had been catching really well as was Shane Caswell on end peg 32. I was well behind and with 2 hours left I was thinking of a tactical walk, when I noticed a little blow over the 4metre meat line. So I quickly adjust the 9 metre line rig and had a 10 lb Carp first put in. I decided to stay on this line until the end landing another four big Carp before the end, losing one foul hooker. My few Silvers weighed in at 7lb 8oz and my seven Carp 68lb 11oz for a total of 76lb 3oz.
Adrian Clark (pictured right with his section winning catch) had fished a decent match, catching shallow and at depth over to the corner green tree at 16 metres landing fifteen Carp. I must admit I thought he had well beaten me for the section but as it proved he was only on lump ahead of me picking up the section leaving me 2nd in section and 11th overall. Happy with this from where I was at half stage.
The match was won by Anton Page (pictured right with the Silvers winner) with 188lb 8oz from peg 22. Anton caught most of his fish fishing pellet long and shallow.
The Silvers was won by Jerry Pocock with 28lb 4oz (weight reflects that the Silvers had other things on their minds) from peg 9. Jerry caught all his fish (mainly Skimmers) down the far shelf using CW&C with worm on the hook.
Full Result:
1. Anton Page 188-08-0 peg 22
2. Tom Mangnel 112-15-0 peg 21
3. Tony Rixon 112-03-0 peg 15
4. Craig Edmonds 107-04-0 peg 13
5. Adrian Clarke 88-12-0 peg 31
6. Jason Radford 85-02-0 peg 36
Top Silvers:
1. Jerry Pocock 28-04-0 peg 9
2. Paul Elmes 26-01-0 peg 3
3. John Bradford 24-12-0 peg 27
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