Back down to Acorn
for the second time this week for the Avon Angling Top Six Pole Open. With all
50 pegs in I was secretly hoping to be on the Dog Bone as I fancied an easy day
on the Skimmers, as my “Karters back” is still playing me up. The Carp are also
much smaller.
Into the draw bag
where I found only two pegs left, out comes peg 30 on Paddocks. I was happy
with this as I drew peg 31 a few weeks back and had a good day on the Silvers,
plus “toning” it late on with big Carp.
Arriving at the peg
I found peg 29 empty and peg 31 with Thyers Brian Slipper sky lining it. As I
prefer to fish the margins on this venue I was disappointed to find the peg had
no bank side cover from the resident sedges – just bare bank, each side. I
plumbed up both margins and found the RH side six inches deeper, plus I had the
extra room. The LH margin for some reason had a big shadow over it which kept
moving!!
So the one paste margin
rig for later in the match, hopefully only required after bagging on the
Silvers! I set up my usual Ronnie rig, a Skimmer rig (4x14 Stainey) and finally
a 0.5 gram paste rig for over the skimmer line at 4 metres. I didn’t get out
the number six section as I don’t often fish that far out on this venue. I
started on the Ronnie rig with single caster over loose fed caster and first
cast hooked and landed a Carp. Hopefully that was the one hungry one out of the
way. I then had a 3lb Skimmer – here we go then – not. So a switch to the
Skimmer rig again with single caster hook bait over kinder potted caster and I
was soon in my second and last Silver a 4oz Skimmer. I spent the next hour
trying allsorts to catch Silvers, but to no avail. So out came the 0.5 paste
rig to fish over the Skimmer line which resulted in one a foul hooked Carp
luckily it was hooked under the chin so was easyish to land. That was it for
the 4 metre line. So the last four hours or so I spent in the RH margin
catching on paste over dripped hard 4’s, but it wasn’t frantic at anytime as I
would catch two and then had a long wait before they sulked back. I think they
were backing off due to the disturbance from playing them. I ended the match
with 21 Carp which weighed 77lb 9oz and by targeted Silvers an embarrassing 3lb
4oz for a total of 80lb 13oz. I was surprised to find this put me 5th
overall, but 7oz out of the coin – bugger – I lost one at the net.
Bela had pulled end
peg 9 on the Dog Bone a peg I would have liked. Bela did well from it catching
52lb of small Carp – but no Silvers which I thought was interesting. Likewise
Bela was one of his
The match was won
by matey Glenn Bailey (pictured right - pictures courtesy of Ray Bazeley) from peg 2
with 111lb 10oz. Glenn caught on his top six fishing paste over kinder potted
hard pellet.
The Silvers was won
by Tom Thick (pictured lower right) from peg 5 – Dog Bone with 32lb 10oz. The Silvers
runner up Pete Wild was on adjacent peg 4.
Full Result:
1. Glenn Bailey 111-10-0 peg 2
2. Alan Oram 104-0-0 peg 7
3. Tim Ford 98-10-0 peg 27
4. Bob Gullick 81-03-0 peg 21
5. Mike Nicholls 80-13-0 peg 30
6. Craig Edmonds 80-09-0 peg 1
Top Silvers:
1. Tom Thick 32-10-0 peg 5 Dog Bone
2. Pete Wild 27-04-0 peg 4 Dog Bone
3. Martin Rayet 24-06-0 peg 2 Dog Bone
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