Last match of the six match Silvers League which I was
leading by one point with a better overall weight, so needed a section second
to win overall. As I had breakfast at home I was first to arrive at the draw so
walked the Lake, pegs 3, 8, 10, 14, 15, 26, 28, 29, 30 and 32 were showing
signs of feeding Skimmers. That said I didn’t mind where I drew so long as I
missed pegs 2 and 34 as no one's going to get a days fishing from these pegs.
In to the draw box and out comes peg 21. Umm, difficult peg
because I had pegs 26, 28, 29 and 30 all of which had the form to beat my peg. What
was worse these form pegs had good anglers on them – double bugger. I had my
work cut out but the peg was mine for the next six hours and I wasn’t going to
run it down but nurture it. I was thinking 10lb would be a good target.
Peg 21 offers plenty of options but went for three rigs – a
4x16 F1 black top to fish top-set plus three at 10-o-clock for maggot and GB.
The same rig would also double up at top-set plus 4 for maggot or Pellet over
micro, a 4x12 F1 yellow top to fish at 12 metre, 12 inches up the far shelf
again maggot and GB. The final rig was a 4x10 Speedy Titan to fish the inside
margin.
I started on the short GB lone and started to catch well mainly
small Skimmers until I hooked what I thought was a Tench that was played
carefully until I saw a red tail so the wrong colour fish and a 4lb Carp was
returned to bugger off. The swim subsequently died. So after trying to revive
the swim I was forced to try the margin with caster over caster which wasn’t
working and produced nothing. So opened a pellet/maggot line at 11.5 metres at
10-o-clock, same story producing just one small Roach. I went for a walk along
the section to give my back some relief, I reckon I was lying joint second with
Rich Coles who was on peg 26 which I know from experience can die on you. After
a cuppa it was time to go over with maggot and GB luckily this produced a
menagerie of small fish at least I was getting bites. I stayed here until the
last hour giving all the swims another opportunity to help out adding a few
more small fish including the margin rig but with maggot this time.
I finished the match with 12lb 14oz which unfortunately only
gave me three points. That said I did enjoy fishing this peg as I needed to
work at it. With Callum Dicks winning his section I was pushed into second
place overall in the league by weight over Steve Dawson who was third – All
pictured below.
Steve Dawson won the match from peg 15 with 26lb 8oz. Steve
struggled fishing his favoured pellet and it wasn’t until he went for broke
dumping a big pot of maggot at 10 metres that he started catching Skimmers
during the second half of the match.
The league was well administered by Chris Rolfe who
recognised that the pegging could be bettered for next year. Thanks Chris.
Full Result - On The Day:
1. Steve
Dawson 26-08-0 peg 15
2. Dave
Willmott 24-06-0 peg 29
3. Dave
Wride 23-13-0-peg 6
4. John
Fuidge 23-12-0 peg 28
4. Tony Rixon 23-12-0 peg 8
6. Paul
Barnfield 21-0-0 peg 11
Overall Final League Placing:
1. Callum
Dicks/Des Shipp 9 points
2. Mike
Nicholls 10 points weight 76-12-0
3. Steve
Dawson 10 points weight 73-13-0
Weigh Sheets:
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