After a long layoff over the Christmas and New Year due to
family commitments and a heavy cold it was out today for the first time this
year on the Bathampton Silvers league. I was hoping for a good draw to start
the league off. However, it wasn’t to be as in to the bank bag and out comes
peg 25. I was up against pegs 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 and 24. Realistically my peg
was only better than peg 23 that was unless the Skimmers showed up in
numbers.
Peg 25 is well set back from both pegs 24 and 26 by 7 metres
so I wasn’t expecting to catch the Ronnie’s so Skimmers were the target.
I had brought the
feeder and waggler rod in case I dew this peg and set both up. I also set up
the pole with a 4x 16 Jolly to be fished at full depth at 6 metres where the Lake bottom levelled out.
I fed the 6 metres line with a big pot of a mix of all the hook
baits on the table – dead reds, Pinky, caster and wetted micro.
However, I started on the feeder and had two quick Ronnie’s
both less than 1/2oz! The feeder spent the rest of the match sat in the wet
grass.
On to the pole with maggot and I was soon catch and dropping
off more less than ½ Ronnie’s irrespective of the hook bait – except caster
which produced nothing. I found sitting on 4 mm soft pellet did produce the odd
2 oz Skimmer. I stayed on the pellet for a good few hours trying the various
baits including double micro which did produce some even smaller bottle tops. The
difficult part was deciding when to top up as when I did the swim died for a
while because small Skimmers will come up ij the water to intercept the feed. I
did have half hour on the waggler with caster over loose fed caster and even
though the presentation was really good I only had a ½ Rudd and a ½ oz Ronnie!!
I ended the match with 30 odd tiny Skimmers for a miserable
3lb 8oz for as expected last but one in the section. The Ronnie’s fed but not
the Skimmer as very few were caught as the weigh sheet bear witness.
The match was won by Barry Fitchew with 11lb 11oz of
Ronnie’s and Perch from peg 21. Barry caught on hid top set with casters and
other rest baits caught over loose fed caster and some micro.
I like the pictured of Barry upper right. I also like
the picture lower right.
Full Result:
- Barry Fitchew 11-11-0 peg 21
- Paul Dicks 10-14-0 peg 15
- Paul Barnfield 10-06-0 peg 18
- Charlie Barnes 9-02-0 peg 8
- Rich Coles 8-11-0 peg 14
- John Smith 8-05-0 peg 12
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