Sunday 11/07/2021 - Tony Rixon's Short Pole - Round Three - Chiltern Trinity - Woodlands

The media, the BBC and Gradian in particular regularly report about the areas in the world that are having high temperatures so they can peddle their religion of climate change and ignore the areas that are having lower than average temperatures. Example North America where they point to the West coast where its unseasonably hot, totally ignoring the East coast which is having an abnormal cold spell. They specifically ignore the fact that the global temperature have fallen whilst CO2 has risen. I mention this because today once the rain came down hard combined with a North Easterly wind I was bloody freezing. However, we MUST phase out the diesel and petrol cars due to the harmful gases they exhaust, and not because of CO2 which as far as I am concerned - more the better for Mother Earth. Changing our natural gas boilers is an absolute nonsense.

Travelled with Glenn Bailey and arrived nice and early. Into the draw box and out came peg 6. Happy enough with this as I have won from here a couple of times albeit many moons ago when there was actually a platform to sit on! The peg is now such that you sit on the bank behind a plank setting you back from the Lake, so I moved to the RH end onto the grass and which was still difficult to get the seat box level. I really thought I would catch some decent Carp down the edge. For company on peg 7 was Mark Cook whom I travelled to Denmark with - now in the distant past, good angler.

So set up a paste/worm rig, short Ronnie rig and a 4x18 Jolly to fish top set plus two barrels at the full depth of 7 foot. Fed the Skimmer line with GB mix of caster and micro, the margin down as far as I could see close in with a big pot of micro and started to loose feed caster for the Ronnie rig.

Started on the Skimmer line with worm on the hook and had four decent Skimmers straight away, before it faded. Topped up with the GB mix and after a short wait had four more albeit smaller hand size Skimmers and a couple of small Hybrids. Topped up again and tried the Ronnie rig and had a run of decent Ronnie's and a Hybrid on single caster. I then hooked a 5lb Carp which I was lucky to land on the light rig. Back out on the Skimmer line and few more hand size specimens. It was obvious there was an Eel on the feed so tried four DR's but didn't get a bite on them. So time to try for some Carp down the edge with Paste to only find nibblers, so switched to whole large worm and had a 2 lb Perch - nice fish. Kept topping the line up with micro but could only get tugs from small fish. I was disappointed that I couldn't get any Carp from this line. Switch back to the Ronnie rig and had a 2 lb F1 and a few more Ronnie's, but it had slowed so went back on the Carp line with double worm for the remainder on the match to no avail. Glenn was still in the knockout and was pleased to see he was catching the occasional Carp on his paste at three barrels, which was enough to beat Ryan Shipp. It was now pouring with rain and glad when Tony called the all out.

My Silvers weighed 16lb 9oz for well off the pace and my Carp 7lb for a total of 23lb 9oz. Each side of me faired even less which shows how bad this area of the Lake is fishing.

The match was won by Vince Shipp (pictured right with his catch of quality Carp) with 101lb 7oz from peg 13. Vince caught at all three barrels on pellet fishing shallow/slapping. His catch consisted of just ten Carp. Well done matey.

The Silvers was won by Ricky Mills (pictured with a spectacular net of Skimmers) with 40lb 14oz from peg 25. Ricky also caught at the the full three barrels using chopped worm/caster with worm hook bait. Well done  net of fish to envy.

This Lake as Tony put it the Lake is "challenging". The consensus it that it could do with stocking of 2 to 3lb Carp to get it back to how it was.

Travelling back and Glenn and discussed peg 6 and concluded that over the last couple of years the peg has definitely stopped producing like it once did. Today most of the fish came from the middle to bottom end.

Well done to Tim Cark for keeping the weigh sheet dry.

Result:

1. Vince Shipp 101-07-0 peg 13

2. Lee Masey 76-06-0 peg 27

3. Martin Rayet 65-08-0 peg 17

Silvers:

1. Ricky Mills 40-14-0 peg 25

2. Martin Mc Mahon 28-08-0 peg 16

Weigh Sheet: