Bela and I stopped at Cannards Well for breakfast, after
which we decided to give it a wide berth in future – enough said.
It’s a nightmare running these leagues with anglers dropping
in and out. That said Tony “Two Nets” had planned on equal 8 section of 5 anglers
but miss counted once again and we ended up with 41! If Tony was a bit more
organised and tidy with his match register (pictured right) like his results
secretary Steve Evans with his results pages – then?
The first round of any league is always full of anticipation
as everyone wants to get off to a good start. For me my aim is to try if
possible to pick up every round rather than worry too much about point scoring.
I think most anglers were hoping to be pegged on Campbell as it has been fishing best of late
and there was less spawning activity compared with Carey. In to the coffee tin
and out comes peg Campbell
111. First objective achieved, I would rate this peg in the top 30% over the
two Lakes so a days fishing should ensue. However, in terms of my five peg
section I would rate it last as I fishing against in form pegs 115, 114, 112
and 110. For company I had Dave Evans on 112 whose back I would see for most of
the day and Blakey on peg 110.
I set up three rigs: a 0.4 Paste rig to fish long at 10
metres (the wind was a skimmer hampering presentation) in the shallowest water
I could find which was at 11-o- clock. A 4x12 Roob for meat at 4 metres,
finally a 0.2 corn/paste float to fish behind me to the right up to a small
stump with either paste or meat.
I fed the 4 metre line with ¼ pot of 6mm meat which I would
subsequently loose feed the occasional 8mm over. Fed the behind margin peg with
a full pot of hard 4’s. I started on the long paste line feeding hard 4’s
through the kinder pot and I was soon playing a 10 lb Common, followed by three
more Carp soon after. Every time I would feed the paste and 4’s together through
the kinder pot which wasn’t right as I soon found out, foul hooking the next
four Carp. So leave it alone for a while then. So on the meat line and had
another Carp first try on 8mm meat hook bait. I then had three Skimmers two of
them weighers and a 3lb Tench. The swim slowed so out on the paste with similar
feeding pattern and another run of Carp, buggers came up again but if you don’t
feed it completely dies so the pattern was set by switching between the two
lines I kept the odd Carp coming. Time to try the margin initially with meat
which was getting hammered by tiny fish until I had three Tench two 4oz one’s
stocked last April and another 3 pounder. Come the last hour I was holding my
own in the section but as expected I then had to suffer watching both Dave and
Blakey bag up whilst I slowed. I tried the meat rig long over the pellet/paste
line to no avail. Then switched the paste over the meat and hey-presto I
started to catch Carp and Skimmers quite quickly. Unfortunately I left it too
late so one to try earlier next time.
My Carp weighed 91lb 2oz and my accidental Silvers 12lb 8oz
for a total of 103lb 10oz for section third but an all important second in
Silvers pick-up, my apologies to those that were targeting Silvers.
Interestingly my weight was 15th in the match – top 30%.
The match was won by Dave White form Carey peg 109 with 25
Carp for 204lb. Dave explains how he caught in the short video below.
The Silvers (and my section) was won by Blakey with 25lb of Tench and Skimmers. Paul also explains below how he caught today.
The Silvers (and my section) was won by Blakey with 25lb of Tench and Skimmers. Paul also explains below how he caught today.
Full Result:
Weigh Sheets:
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