Sunday 08/07/2019 - Tony Rixon's Float Only - Round Three - Sedges - Brick and Tile Lakes

Travelled with Two Pots today, so breakfast at home,more beans and porridge. Podge is still on page one of his new car sat nav manual so had to follow us down. Didn't need us on the way home though.

Two Pots was telling everyone that this venue was the best paste venue in the South West - Umm.

I really to be wanted to draw on Tile Lake, simply because the Silvers could be won off any of the middle pegs. Whereas on Brick the favourite areas are pegs 5 to 8. There are pegs to avoid at the moment - Brick pegs 2,3 20, 19,18 and 17. So into the draw tube and out comes peg 3. Noooo. No chance of beating peg 1 especially with Meat Head on it and with little hope of Silvers it was going to be a philosophical day. For company on peg 2 was the affable Nick Brown and Phil Hardwick on peg 4. Phil fetched the item pictured right from his car. I wasn't sure what it was - a sewing machine, Gramophone? I was hoping it was a picnic to share.

Being an out and out paste venue!!! I set up two paste rigs one o fish at top-set plus three out in front and one for the RH margin which was just the right topography for presenting the paste. In case I set up a 4x16 Winter Titan for Silvers at top set plus four at 11 o'clock. I started on the long paste rig after feeding a big pot of micro/4's mix. The expectation was to immediately have some fizzing, I was amazed and worried this didn't happen. I expected in this case to have some nibblers - more concern when this didn't happen the paste just sat there. I had a go on the Titan with expander's of micro and again no sign of feeding fish not even a Ronnie intercepting the bait on the drop. Nick hadn't had a bite either whilst Phil was catching the odd Carp on the pellet waggler - releasing as many as he was landing! The penny dropped all the fish were up in the water and really didn't want to feed. I thought about setting up the waggler but knew I couldn't possible catch meat head. At sometime the fish would go down on the bottom to feed, but was a question of when? So rather than sit there bite less I thought I would socialise and have a walk around the Lakes having a chat with at least 75% of the anglers. I did this twice! It was obvious that the venue had converted from a paste venue to Slappers paradise. Arrived at Two Pots corner peg 31 and found he was struggling with the paste and was practising his slapping. Back to my peg and so to while away the time I set up the Ronnie rig and caught an assortment of small fish - nothing manic ob caster over GB and caster. With an hour to go Nick had his first Carp so time to go back on the long paste line. I fed some more hard 4's and had the elusive fizz right away. During the last hour I had three Carp losing one fouler and three decent Skimmers. Come the all out the peg was alive with feeding fish giving me liners!! This has happened before and will happen again. At least I saved face with my total weight of 32 lb being halfway up the Lake beating two in the section!!

The match once again was won by Neil Mercer (pictured right) with 258 lb 14 oz from Tile corner peg 40. Neil caught on banded pellet fished over pinged 6's fished at 14.5 to his end bank. His catch also included an Eel of 3 lb 4 oz - nice to see. three matches in the three, I don't think The Trig is that happy about sharing his flyer's around - even though Neil is his boss.

The Silvers was won by Chris Fox (pictured right with a nice net of assorted size of Skimmers) with 44 lb 2 oz from Tile peg 38. Chris caught mainly on expander's over micro and hard 4's. However, see his blog for more details.

Result:

1. Neil Mercer 258-14-0 peg 40
2. Tony Rixon 184-0-0 peg 37
3. Paul Elmes 156-08-0 peg 21
4. Vince Shipp 126-05-0 peg 24

Silvers:

1. Chris Fox 44-02-0 peg 38
2. Paul Faiers 32-04-0 peg 27

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