Bob Warren and I had our usual breakfast at Asda. It’s not
bad for the price.
I was looking forward to a rain free match, but
unfortunately we had another heavy down pour sufficient to get everything
soaked – again.
In to the draw bag and out comes disc 32. Pegs 34 to 30
don’t see the sun all day this time of year and can be cold – by the end of the
match I was shivering. I drew this peg a few matches ago and had 140lb and very
few Silvers, and as per the last match I had that very nice window fitter Paul
Haines on next peg 33. The peg looked dead with no sign of fish, as did many of
the pegs at this end of the Lake . However,
there were a few Ronnie’s topping in the margin. So the Ronnie rig was set up
and an optimistic Skimmer 4x16 jolly rig to be fished at 6 metres down the
inside shelf. Finally the margin paste rig.
I decided to feed some CW&C inside some of my Skimmer GB
at 6 metres but started on the single caster over loose fed caster. First cast
I had a Ronnie which felt very cold. I carried on catching the odd fish which
included some small Perch for about twenty minutes before the swim died. So it
was out on the optimistic rig with worm and for ten minutes fish were pulling
off the worm. I soon landed one of the culprits – tiny 2oz Skimmers. Once these
critters drove me mad I went back on the Ronnie rig catching a few decent fish
to 12oz. I then hooked and landed a 10 lb Common on this rig which took an age
to land. This killed the swim so a change of tactics and it was soft 4mm
expander over knubs of GB. This resulted in a bite a chuck from the tiny
Skimmers, but adding very little to by weight. With now two hours remaining I
switched to the paste in the margin, the upshot was I landed three more Carp
losing one foul hooker and one at the net with the hook pulling free. My four
Carp weighed in at 37lb 2oz and my Silvers 9lb 12oz for a total of 46lb 14oz. I
was surprised to find that this put me second in the Silvers and third overall
– happy days.
It looks as if we are now going in to winter mode for the Silvers.
The match was one by John Smith (pictured right with his
catch) with 85lb 10oz (only because Bob Price threw back his Silvers to make
room for more Carp) from peg 6. John fished 16 metres to the end of the
opposite island catching his fish on either meat or 8mm banded pellet.
The Silvers was won by Rich Coles (lower pictured right with the
overall winner) with 27lb 2oz. Likewise Rich tried CW&C and fail to catch.
It wasn’t until he switched to soft pellet over micro that he caught hand size
Skimmers throughout at 11.5 metres.
Full Result:
1. John
Smith 85-10-0 peg 6
2. Bob
Price 85-4-0 peg 18
3. Mike
Nicholls 46-14-0 peg 32
4. Ray
Bazeley 40-07-0 peg 14
5. Dave
Bacon 36-13-0 peg 15
6. Terry
Bruton 35-12-0 peg 4
Top Silvers:
1. Rich
Coles 27-02-0 peg 11
2. Mike
Nicholls 9-12-0 peg 32
2. Andy
Smith 9-12-0 peg 10
No comments:
Post a Comment