Silverfox Match Angling: Sunday 13/09/2105 - Landsend Open

Sunday 13 September 2015

Sunday 13/09/2105 - Landsend Open - Specimen and Macth Lakes

After a great Saturday afternoon out with Bela and Geoff Francis I woke a few times in the night for obvious reasons, so felt a bit lethargic in the morning. Bela arrived on time as usual. We had breakfast in Shipham which wasn’t up to the standard for a number of reasons. Dean Malin was in the café holding court about various aspects of his life that can’t possibly be put in to print – he was well in form and off to fish in the Shiplate Farm league.

When I booked in I understood that Walters Lake was in the hat however, PSV had booked it so we over spilled on to Specimen Lake instead which I was hoping to avoid. That said I wasn’t enamoured about fishing Match Lake either.

In to the draw tin and out comes peg 18. Sandwich between the Gimp (DNW) on peg 19 and Bela on peg 16 (he reckoned he had put 100lb in each net so disqualified himself, hence DNW) – Umm!!

My peg for the day is an out and out Carp peg so I set up three rigs. A 4x12 Jolly with 0.16 hook length to fish at 10 metres with soft 4mm pellet/6mm meat (left over from Thursday). A 0.4 gram paste float to fish over the 10 metres line once the Carp arrived in numbers (this didn’t happen so it didn’t get a wetting). Finally a 0.3 gram PC pastes float to fish on the top-set down to the right hand margin.

Starting on the semi-hards over hard 4’s at 10 metres I had the usual few Silvers including two nice Crucian Carp. As anticipated it wasn’t long before a few small Carp took an interest. The upshot was that the Silvers had pissed-off and the Carp weren’t there in numbers so it was a question of picking off the odd Carp. I persevered out long for half the match switching to the paste in the margin for the remainder. Again there wasn’t enough competing Carp to line them up. However, I did have four doubles on the paste which boosted my weight.

My Silvers weighed 6lb 8oz and my Carp 86lb 4oz for a 6^th overall tally of 90lb 12oz (one out of coin).

The match was won by Craig Edmonds (pictured right with some of his catch) with a huge weight of 311lb 5oz from peg 13. Craig caught on 8mm hard pellet fish both long and short down his end margin fished over hard 6’s. He also caught on 8mm meat short at 5metres out in front.

The Silvers was won by Clint Wojtyle (pictured right with his net of Skimmers) with 36lb 1oz from peg 37. Clint caught on soft pellet over micro on one line and on corn over micro on his other line.

Full Result: