Plenty of rain to re-establish the water table, and although
my keep-nets had been out since Sunday they were still damp this morning. It as
promised to be 10 degrees today but windy, but what wasn’t said was the wind
would be bitterly cold blowing in from the NNW. Arriving at the fishery I had
to become a Herder to move some cows from the entry gate. The usual suspects
having breakfast, but the morning was brightened up when Nicky Collins came in
delivering for Sensas M5. Nick is one of my Silvers Hero’s, hard to beat on any
venue.
The venue has been fishing really hard and to be fair so has
many other fisheries, probably accepts Hillview. The water had definitely
coloured up, but not as much as I thought, the water running in and out was
just still a dribble. But did expect it to fish much better than recent matches
– WRONG.
In to the draw bag and out comes peg 19. Normally would be
very happy with this one, but not today as the wind was blowing in at me at
11-o-clock, which was strong enough for me not to bother with the far bank. So
it was just the one rig a 4x12 - F1 which was plumbed to fish at top-set plus
one and three.
I started on 4mm expander over micro on the short line and
within the first half hour had four small Skimmers and two small F1’s. I then
got pestered by really small fish that couldn’t quite pull the float completely
under. I decided to take off a number 12 shot to aid me not striking at these
nibbles. Had some more small Skimmers, bit topping up caused a lull in the
bites. Opened up the longer swim again with 4mm expander over micro and had a
quick F1 and a couple more Skimmers. Again I was bothered by uncatchable small
fish. So I made the brave decision to switch to 6mm meat. I think this was
right as although I had to wait longer I didn’t get bothered by small fish. I
fed meat on both lines and kept the odd Skimmer coming.
I was glad to hear Terry blow for the all out as I was
bloody freezing. I weighed 13lb 2oz with the Skimmers making up the Lions
share. It proved to be a very tight match and I was lucky to squeeze in to
third and last in the money.
The match was jointly won by Terry Chivers and Tony Price
(pictured below) with 13lb 10oz. Both caught on maggot with a late run in their
margins.
Full Result:
- Terry Chivers 13-10-0 peg 8
1. Tony
Price 13-10-0 peg 4
3. Mike Nicholls 13-02-0 peg 19
4. Terry Girdlestone 12-0-0 peg 11
5. Rob
Pass
6. Roy
Liddell10-04-0 peg 21
Weigh Sheet:
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