With The Coffin Dodgers and Pill Poppers match being
cancelled Ray Bazeley organised a match at Rood Ashton with a sell out to
mainly CD & PP regulars. I got my name down early as I love this venue and
haven’t been there for some time. Luckily for us there was an evening match on
the Car Park bank so we were on the far bank (my favourite area) with
permission to drive round – good one Ray.
Rood Ashton is a venue that is so picturesque that it
doesn’t matter if you catch or not – which was to prove lucky for me.
As Mark Tanner also likes the venue he managed to get a day
away from the office so picked me up. Mark decided to stop at McDonalds for a
coffee and bought me a tea, only for Mark to hit a pothole and I ended up
wearing it – very painful.
In to the draw box and out comes peg 6 which was midway
along the top bank opposite the island. Unfortunately it was a very narrow swim
(but not quite a Parrott cage), dead calm and bright, with surface rubbish
blowing in and out the swim (this went on all day). So I had no margin option
so it was going to be just the one swim at 10 metres. I set up one paste, a
soft pellet and a maggot rig all to be fished full depth – 18 inches!
I started on the soft pellet over kindered hard 4’s and
could only get bites from small Ronnie’s
but could not hook one. So I switched to the single maggot again over kindered
dead maggot. I started to hook a few Ronnie’s but because of the depth of water
they were splashing around on the surface a soon as I struck, losing 50% of the
fish I hooked. It wasn’t going to plan. I then hooked and lost a foul hooked
Carp breaking the hook length. I had a walk done to Mark Tanner who was on peg
8 and mark was catching on the pole and straight lead. Mark had plenty of wind
cover which was helping him. I decided to focus on the Silvers, which might
have been the right decision if I caught some, but I didn’t, instead I was a
case of hooking a Carp in the mouth and then lose a foul hooker. I tried the
paste with no joy. So I stayed on the maggot until the end landing 8 Carp and
losing 12 (yes 12) foul hookers. I tried allsorts of feeding but I couldn’t
work out how to catch the critters in the mouth – very frustrating.
My 8 Carp weighed 24lb 14oz and my bag of Ronnie’s 1lb 3oz
from a not so grand total of 26lb 1oz for 8th overall and third in
the Silvers! That said I did enjoy fishing against the fish at one time I had
clawed back to 8 Carp in the net and lost 8 foul hookers, but lost the day in
the final 30 minutes.
The match was won by Mark Tanner (pictured upper right with his
catch) with 67lb 8oz from peg 8. Mark caught on hard banded 8mm pellet fished
at 12 metres over lose fed hard 4’s. Mark also had a couple on both the pellet
waggler and straight lead.
The Silvers was won by Andy Shields (pictured lower right with the
match winner) with 3lb 4oz of Ronnie’s all caught on maggot from peg 10.
Full Result:
1. Mark
(I don’t like this peg)Tanner 67-8-0 peg 8
2. Pete
Greenslade 46-10-0 peg 46-10-0 peg 2
3. Kevin
Jefferies 44-04-0 peg 4
4. Dave
Gillard 40-12-0 peg 3
5. Ray
Bazeley 34-04-0 peg 1
6. Paul
Haines 30-0-0 peg 9
Top Silvers:!
1. Andy
Shields 3-04-0 peg 10
2. Charlie
Barnes 1-08-0 peg 5
Weigh Sheet:
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