Two Chews Bakos wanted a quantity breakfast today so it was
off to Lillypool Café where a large breakfast was shown no mercy.
Earlier draw today 09:30 still later than I would like. A
walk up to the Lake with Steve Segar revealed
little to no signs of feeding fish, we both thought it would fish hard as it
did last week.
In to the draw and out comes peg 25 again. I wasn’t too
bothered about it as I was lying tenth overall with no chance of catching up so
I planned to fish for the reliable Ronnie’s who I suspect would still show. For
company I had Glenn Bailey on 26 (who went on to second in the match and winning the knockout) and Dick Bull on 24 so not a lot of room for
us.
I set up a two Ronnie rigs, one to hand and the other a 4x12
Jolly, both rigged for caster. I also set a margin paste rig to fetch out any intruding
Carp.
So it was heads down. After half hour it was clear that the
venue was fishing hard with few Carp showing and the Ronnie’s not competing as
usual for the caster. I kept my head down until half way when it went quite so
in went the paste and a 7lb 1oz Common went in the keep net. It still takes a
while for the Ronnie’s to recover, so rested the swim and had a walk up to Two
Chews who was on peg 31. Amazing no one in his section had caught a Carp!!
I went back and carried on with the Ronnie’s until the last
¾ of an hour went the Carp were up on the top taking the caster so it was a
question of chasing around for those extra ounces until then end. I was Amazes
That I didn’t hook a Carp during this time.
I though I had about 300 Ronnie’s which would give me around
16lb. However, I was disappointed to find the scales go to 13lb 14oz. I usually
under estimate my weight so I checked my keep nets when I got home for holes. There
wasn’t any a ½ ounce Ronnie could get through. I count my fish in batches of 50
and put a 4 mm pellet to one side then count the total. I now reckon I added
one too many pellets over estimating by 50 fish. This left me last but one in
the section and fourth in the Silvers – 16lb would have put me second – but I
didn’t catch that many!!
Bela came good in the last two hours of the match catching
50lb of Carp shallow at 6 metres giving him a section win and the Pinky Ponk
honours.
The match was won by Shaun Townsend (pictured right with his
catch) from end peg 23 with 72lb 11oz. Shaun caught a few shallow on pellet,
with the majority coming from his RH margin on meat.
The Silvers was won by Joe McMahon (pictured right) with
19lb 3oz of Ronnie’s from end peg 32. Joe caught similar to me caster to hand.
The league was won by Paul Elmes (pictured right with the
top three individuals).
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