“All Fish Lives Matter” – got that one off my chest.
Back to Harescombe a small Pricey breakfast this time. No
Ray Bazeley apparently out celebrating his Birthday as of yesterday – same
Birthday as my twin Granddaughters.
What a mild day for near end of October, hope it continues
until April!
In to the draw bag and out comes peg 5 – Again!! Rather fish
somewhere new, but felt I could have done better last match by staying on the
pellet longer. So a plan was in place and two of the “Rigs of the Day” (pictured
right) connected on two top sets fitted with Drennan yellow elastics.
Because the water was even more clear that last week the
margin rig never got used. The only rig to get wet today was the 4x12 F1. I
started at top-set plus one with 4mm expander over pellet. It took a while to
catch my first fish a 12 oz Skimmer. It was a much slower start than last week.
I kept a few Skimmers and the odd F1 coming on the pellet which I stayed on for
half the match with about 6lb of Skimmers and ten F1’s in the net I had a
surprised visit from Tony Cambridge who lives just a few minutes from the
fishery, Tony is good mates with Arthur Marshall both great river anglers in
their time. Arthur is not too good at the movement. It was nice to see Tony
again.
I’m a one dinner plate man and not keen to have separate
lines but decided to add another section and start a meat line at 10 0 clock.
This produced two proper Carp weighing 5lb between them, plus a few F1’s and
Skimmers. However, the best line remained the short pellet line which did get
better towards the end.
Amazingly I finished the match with the same number of fish
as last match with the Skimmers weighing 13lb 8oz and my F1’s 41lb 9oz for a
match winning weight of 55lb 1oz (pictured right). I knew the F1’s were smaller
this match with the 26 weighing 6lb less, but with 4lb more Skimmer weight!!
Finally Martin Alexander aka “Arkwright” drew peg 29 and
against my advice decided backed down the bank towards his peg only to end up
in the ditch. Luckily Andy Price was on hand to drag him out – see video below.
Full Result:
- Mike Nicholls 55-01-0 peg 5
- Ade Stokes 50-0-0 peg 15
- Alan Oram 45-12-0 peg 19
Weigh Sheet:
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