Back to Shiplate Farm Fishery and as always a warm welcome
from fishery owners Steve and Carol. Usual suspects already there supping tea
putting the world to rights.
Son Steve took my Twin Granddaughters here last Saturday and
fished Squircle Pond for their first fishing outing I just wished I could have
been there - enough then for a match. This pond is perfect for Kids. It was a
good start for both of them catching a range of small Carp and Skimmers on soft
pellet.
This is an amazing Silver fish venue and if I fished
regularly for Carp I would be saying something similar about Pigs. It was good
to see Tom Thick there today; we can’t afford to lose these young anglers from
our sport.
After some tactical chit- chat with like minded Ray Wickham
it was into the plastic draw carton and out comes peg 11 which I was told is a
good Carp peg. Umm. I knew there was company on one side which was my old GB
supplier Keith Fisher, but you can only see anglers opposite so no conversing.
I knew the lake would be towing hard into the wind which was
initially quite strong. So abandon my usual Skimmer rig which is designed to
pick up tow and made up one that would slow the tow, which was a 4x14 to fish
at top-set plus two in 5 foot of water, which I was hoping wouldn’t get used.
The favoured Ronnie was set up and a 4x10 to fish the LH margin on the top-set.
Started on the Ronnie rig with single caster over loose feed
and after three Ronnie’s snagged up losing a hook. This was repeated two more
times before I decided to switch lines preferring to fish down the left side in
shallower water. This worked better plus the tow was a lot less in fact I could
get it to run a bit the other way. I caught well in spurts including a Tench, a
decent Hybrid and a Perch. The spurts I discovered were due to Carp disruptions
some were coming up for the caster. At half way I had struggled to 10lb but
could tell from the pegs opposite it was fish very hard. So went for the Banana
walk and found my side was fishing just as hard. Back in the saddle and decided
that the humongous amount of caster I had wasn’t getting a ride home so put
four big pots on the Skimmer line (might now be a Carp line). Left it for a
while catching a few more Ronnie’s in close, until I spotted a blow over the
caster so went our with the 4x14 and was soon playing a Carp which bored me to
death trying to get it out and judging by its tail it was huge, we finally
ended our relationship and parted company. Two more lost Carp followed then I
landed a small 6lb version. Then the Skimmers rolled up leaving me with a great
last hour adding 20lb of big Skimmers all on double caster. I kept on thinking
I needed to feed again but refrained as I like Carp but prefer Skimmers.
My Silvers weighed 30lb 5oz – 4oz less than last match for
first in the silvers the one Carp weighed 6lb14oz. A very enjoyable days
fishing.
The match was won by Tom thick (pictured right with the
Silvers winner) on fancied peg 15 with 75lb. Tom initially caught a couple of
Carp down his margin fishing double worm over GB, Tom then switched to paste over
the GB and caught well for the remainder of the match, however, he did tell me
he had quite a lot of lost foul hookers. Tom’s GB range is worth a try. Well
done matey. Oh yes the scarf - Man flu!
Full Result:
- Tom Thick 75-10-0 peg 15
- Tom Light 71-02-0 peg 1
- Mike Owens 68-14-0 peg 14
Top Silvers:
- Mike Nicholls 30-05-0 peg 11
- Dave Wride 22-0-0 peg 8
- Ray Wickham 18-04-0 peg 9A
Weigh Sheet:
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