Bela and I went for the usual for breakfast in the Beefeater
where we were joined by jokes galore Chris Davis.
Fifteen fishing today so reasonable turn out. In to the draw
box and out comes peg 16. Fished it before in winter I remember doing well in
both Silvers and Carp but couldn’t remember exactly how I did but it wasn’t
relative to today’s match because it was autumn.
There was no one on the end bank which would help. Arriving
at the peg there was Carp everywhere sucking and swirling along the end bank
and margins. Not a good sign I’m thinking.
Set up a margin PC paste float, a 4x14 Jolly to fish top-set
plus three for Skimmers on expander over the Gabe and of course the Ronnie rig.
Fed a ball of the Gabe on the long line and started to loose
feed the caster for the Ronnie rig. No sooner I had fed the Carp were swirling
over both lines. So reluctantly went on the margin paste and hooked a Carp
first try which was a Common that wasn’t going to give up and fair play got
released with the hook pulling out. I then foul hooked the next two Carp which
got no where near the net. I then had four commons in the mouth which reached
the net. It then slowed even though there were still loads of Carp swirling all
over. So out on the Skimmer line and had a 4oz Skimmer one a bung on 4mm
expander. Kept topping up with the Gabe and which kept the Skimmers coming.
Tried the Ronnie rig with caster but it wasn’t happening with only a couple of
Ronnie, Perch and Rudd to show for it. However, I was continually picking up
residual hay from the remainders of broken up hay bale placed in the end bank
margin. I decided to abandon the Ronnie rig for another day and kept feeding
the margin with caster and wetted micro. Back out on the Skimmers and had a
couple of decent Skimmers. However, I kept being distracted by the Swirling
Carp so tried the paste again only to foul hook Carp which over the match
totalled seven. Back on the Silvers which now had slowed so fed some micro
which energised the swim catching a few more 4oz Skimmers and a couple of Crucian’s.
Time for the banana walk, Chris gay on the next peg was claiming 70lb and Bela
and John Clark 50lb, John Barker was reckoning on 8lb of Silvers, so still all
to play for. In to the margin with paste and I was still getting frustrated by
the swirler’s. With 90 minutes left the Carp decided to feed properly subsequently
I had a decent run of Common Carp which took an age to land. The Mirror Carp
were twice the size and half the time to land and with too many Commons it
slowed me affecting my overall weight.
My Silvers weighed 17lb 3oz for first in the Silvers and my
Carp went 105lb 10 oz for a total of 122lb 13oz for third overall with the
Commons and lost Carp costing me a double bubble.
Another great days fishing and only 15 minutes from home and
the pub!
The match was won by Chris Gay (Quiffy pictured right with some of
his catch) with 154lb 8oz from peg 18. Chris caught most of his fish in his RH
margin with corn over corn. Chris would have had more if he hadn’t broken his
number six section of his Maver pole. Well done matey the pick up wasn’t quite
enough for a new section, but helped.
Close behind Chris in second place was Bela with 145lb 3oz
from the peg 22 which I had on Thursday’s match.
Full Result:
- Chris Gay 154-08-0 peg 18
- Bela Bakos 145-03-0 peg 22
- Mike Nicholls 122-13-0 peg 16
- John Clark 108-1-0 peg 20
- Chris Davis 75-02-0 peg 25
- John Osborne 52-09-0 peg 9
- Mike Nicholls 17-03-0 peg 16
- John Barker 14-04-0 peg 26
Weigh Sheet:
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