Tuesday 18/05/2021 - Acorn - Cost Cutter - Paddocks

Travelled with Glenn Bailey today and met up with Junior who managed to sneak out again at the last moment.

We all had a walk around and again pegs 1 to 12 fancied, however, I would have chosen peg 27, there always seems to be some wind in this corner. Not a bridge please.

Mike pulls me peg 31. Happy with this as its in the same area as last match. So its inevitable that you approach it the same, isn't it? Well I did. So see the last Acorn post for explanation.

I started exactly the same and had a Carp first try on the 6mm expander, followed by another which had tangled it's pictorial fin so expected to land it quick, but the hooked pulled. I'm thinking reasonable start. Umm. I had tried long with paste down to the LH pallet and was getting liners and after losing a foul hooked Carp this was abandoned .... now need to fast forward to mid match where the Silvers net was dry and in the other one lonely Carp. I had to get some bites so made up a 4x10 Winter Titan to fish on the top-set at full depth out in front for Silvers/bites. First I tried choppy/caster and with worm heads in the hook started to catch Skimmers and the odd small Tench and some nuisance Perch, it's all bites though which was leading to a half days fishing. This dried up a bit so switched to double LR's on the hook, loose feeding the same and by laying out the rig caught a few Skimmers on the drop. I then had a good run of six decent Carp again on the drop. This worked well catching Carp steady until I foul hooked one which came off at full speed with the rig hitting the keepnet and smashing to bits. Twenty minutes left  and would be a waste of fishing time to set up another, so picked up the paste float and fished it in the LH margin where I had been dripping in hard 4's. Again plenty of liners but did manage two decent Carp before the whistle.

My Silvers weighed 13lb 14oz and my 14 Carp 71lb 13oz for a match winning total of 85lb 7oz. So a good day out especially as the weather had improved with no rain or showers. Me pictured above being held up off the ground by second and third in the match

The Silvers was won by Gary "Junior" Bowden (pictured) with 45lb 8oz from peg 21. Gary caught on Caster and maggot up the the bridge. His catch consisted on mainly big Tench.

Back to the pub with the usual suspects to end another memorable day out fishing with like minded people.

Result:

1. Mike Nicholls 85-07-0 peg 31

2. Gary Bowden 75-02-0 peg 21

3. Glenn Bailey 69-01-0 peg 34

Silvers:

1. Gary Bowden 45-08-0 peg 21

2. Eddie Wynne 33-12-0 peg 33

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