After breakfast Bela and I walked the Lake .
Although the Lake had plenty of colour there
wasn’t any sign of Ronnie’s – well at least it wasn’t frozen.
In to the draw landing net and peg 1 stuck to my hand. It
wasn’t one of the favoured pegs during the pre-match tittle-tattle. Bela
thought I had talked myself in to this is peg during our walkabouts. Bela drew
flyer peg 8, I think he should have fished more to his right!! The positives
were that I had plenty of room, sun and biting wind off my back.
I was slightly disappointed with the peg as it doesn’t have
much of a Silvers history. So it was a change of plan. It was to be GB and
maggot for the Skimmers and caster for the Ronnie’s. Instead the new plan was to start on the
expander over micro hoping to catch a few early Carp then switch to the GB
later. However, I couldn’t help myself, setting up two Ronnie rigs which stayed
lying on the ground for the duration of the match. The two rigs that mattered were
a 4x14 and a 4x12 Jolly. The latter to be fished in the RH margin at 9 metres
up to the over hanging brambles (starting to sound like Darren “Brambles”
Gillman) and the other out in front with pellet.
On the whistle I fed a few micros out at 9 metres and at the
same length down to the right where I fed twice as much plus an ample helping
of caster. Out with 3mm expander and first cast I had a 4lb Carp. Three more
followed in consecutive put-ins. I had topped up between each fish and probably
over done it as I sensed the fish had come up in the water. I eased back on the
feed and put on a piece of corn (scrounged form Tony Rixon) and after adjusting
the depth so that the corn shotted the float I hooked my fifth Carp, but
interestingly it was the smallest so far. So it was back on the expander, which
resulted in two Skimmers. I took this as a sign to switch to GB and maggot. So
after feeding GB laced with Pinkies it was time to test the margin. So after
kindering a few more micro and casters I went over it with corn, resulting in
some indications but nothing to strike at. I decided to switch to triple maggot
and soon netted a near 2lb Perch. I fed again and went over the GB with single
dead red and landed another small Carp. It was then turn of the Ronnie’s
catching a 2oz fish regularly. A decision had to be made Carp or Silvers and
because the Ronnie’s weren’t coming as quick as I would have liked I went back
in the margin catching another Perch and four more small Carp. I kept topping
up the GB line which only encouraged even smaller Ronnie’s.
My Silvers weighed 6lb 3oz (in hindsight I think I could
have framed in the Silvers if I focussed on the Ronnie’s) and my ten Carp
weighed in at 34lb 14oz for a total of 41lb 1oz for fourth overall, picking up
third overall pool by default.
The match was won by Alan Oram (pictured right with the
match runner up) with 85lb 10oz from peg 27. Alan had a next peg battle with
Martin Lenaghan who stormed ahead for first three hours of the match but Alan
pulled back once the fish deserted Martin in the last two hours. Both caught on
expander pellet over micro.
The Silvers was won by Tony Rixon (pictured lower right just
before he slipped on his ass – need to wear your glasses to the toilet!) with
61lb 6oz from peg 7. Tony also caught on expander over micro.
Full Result:
1. Alan
Oram 85-10-0 peg 27
2. Martin
Lenaghan 75-02-0 peg 28
3. Tony
Rixon 61-06-0 peg 7
4. Mike
Nicholls 41-01-0 peg 1
5. Paul
Elmes 39-02-0 peg 37
6. Bela
Bakos 24-12-0 peg 8
Top Silvers:
1. Tony
Rixon 11-10-0 peg 7
2. Martin
McMahon 9-12-0 peg 3
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