First stop the Beefeater with Bela, Geoff and Joe. Most of
the discussion was around what pole Joe should buy. A cold north easterly
blowing so would be far worse at the Windmill fishery and it was. I was hoping
for a peg on the near side pegs 27 to 16 would do.
In to the draw box and out comes peg 24 so near side, but I
had the curse of it being the Golden peg. And a curse it was. Got to the peg
and had to rush back to the toilet, and only just made it. Setting up I dropped
my shot pliers in the drink and got a couple of booties trying to get them out
to no avail – bugger. There is an upside of getting your feet wet is when you
get home and change in to dry socks and getting the lovely warm glowing
feeling.
Nonetheless a decent peg. I messed about deciding which
would be the best Jolly to use. I was hoping to fish up the shelf but it was
far to steep especially as the tow was hard and envisaged the feed pellet only
getting washed quickly down to the bottom of the shelf. So I settled on a 4x18
Jolly to fish top-set plus three in 8 foot of water at bottom of the shelf. The
other rig was for my margin a 4x14 Jolly to fishing in 4 foot of water up close
to the Sedges – as shallow as I could
get – bloody Sedges need ripping out. I fed the margin with a few dead reds and
the long line with pellet I stated on this line with 4mm expander, it took a
while before I had my first small Skimmer; the tow was impairing presentation
which was only to get worse due to the wind picking up. To say it was slow was
an understatement. I did manage two small Carp and a 1 ½ lb Perch before trying
the margin with single caster and first try I had an 8lb Mirror Carp. By
feeding and switching between the two lines I kept a few Silvers coming plus
the odd Carp. With ten minutes to go I hooked a 10 lb Mirror on the margin rig
on double dead red which took me into the sedges but luckily I managed to get
it out only to open the gape of the hook in the process and pulling out of the
fish – bugger – bloody Sedges. I think this cost me second overall. The curse
of the Golden peg!
My few Silvers weighed 7lb 8oz and my six Carp 28lb 10oz for
a third in the match total of 36lb 2oz. Luckily they paid the top three today.
The match was won by Dave Haines (pictured right) with 67lb
5oz from peg 18. Dave caught on the straight lead over to the end of the
opposite island using hair rigged pellet over loose fed pellet.
The Silvers was won by John Barker (pictured right) with
12lb 2oz which included a 2 ½ lb Perch. John fished maggot at top-set plus three
over loose fed maggot.
Full Result:
- Dave Haines 67-05-0 peg 18
- Gerry Walsh 43-15-0 peg 27
- Mike Nicholls 36-02-0 peg 24
- Joe Godfrey 35-12-0 peg 29
- Mark Hayes 33-04-0 peg 23
- Jon Clark 26-10-0 peg 5
Top Silvers:
- John Barker 12-02-0 peg 26
- Jon Clark 7-10-0 peg 5
- Mike Nicholls 7-08-0 peg 24
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