Back to my commercial fishery roots – Hillview. It was nice
to meet up with Keith Hill again. He told me the story of his missing Christmas
tree – Keith was not amused.
Keith has done more work adding a bar/function room
@ £3 a pint.
It was also nice to meet up with Terry King and Neville
Groves. These are the two anglers to interrogate. Apparently the winning weights have
been coming on the waggler and straight lead, not feeding anything with either
bread or maggot hook bait. However, there are only a few pegs that these
methods can be sensibly used. Otherwise it was to be pole and pellet or maggot.
The venue has been fishing well due primarily to the head of
big F1’s.
The pools are £20 with an option of a £3 Silvers Pool, which
I decided to enter.
In to the smelly woolly hat and out comes peg 24 on Heron. This
put me on the far side in the RH corner. Peg 24 is the shallowest peg on the
venue. I was glad I had done the Silvers as to win overall from this peg would
be difficult to say the least. I initially set up a Ronnie rig for caster over
loose fed caster. However, I couldn’t find enough water to make it viable so it
did get a serious wetting. The only other rig was a 4x 14 Jolly which had to be
fished at 7 metres to find the shelf in 5 foot of water.
I decided on two lines for the Jolly – one at 12 o clock
where I would fish 4 mm soft pellet over hard micro (can’t use wetted feed at
Hillview) and the other at 2 o clock where I fed Pinkie.
I started on the Pellet and after 15 minutes without a bite
switched to fishing maggot over the Pinkie and had for F1’s and some Silvers. I
did loose a 2 lb Skimmer at the net which was foul hooked and another where the
hook pulled at the net – bugger. I made amends by netting a 2lb Tench. The
Ronnie’s were not really feeding but I managed to keep a few small versions
coming plus the odd small Skimmer. Even though I kept topping the Pinkie up the
swim finally died after foul hooking three F1’s.
In the meantime I had converted the pellet line to a combo
of micro and dead red feed. I then had a run of f1’s on single red. I did loose
a 8 pound Common Carp at the net – bugger. Looking around my section there were
pegs which I expected to fish well but were struggling for bites and a good few DNW's
My Silvers weighed 8lb for first in the Silvers and my F1’s
weighed 20lb (you don’t get ounces on the venue – nearest ½ lb) for a total of
28lb for an additional section win and a double bubble payout. (pictured right with the match
winner).
I must say I did enjoy the day – my sort of fishing.
The match was won by that man again Neville Groves (pictured
right with his bucket of F1’s) with 64lb 8oz from Moorhen peg 2.
Full Result:
- Neville Groves 64-08-0 peg 2
- Andy Newton 60-08-0 peg 18
- Andy G 56-08-0 peg 6
- Pete 51-0-0 peg 36
- S Someone 38-0-0 peg 9
- Barry Hill 35-0-0 peg 40
Top Silvers:
- Mike Nicholls 8-0-0 peg 24
Weigh Sheet:
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