So who's is the Phantom Banana skin man?
Every year we have that sudden change over one day from pleasant weather to wintery conditions which happened last Tuesday, so no paste in the bag today.
Kit all dried out from Tuesday downpour, but expected it to get another soaking today. I had a walk around the lake which had plenty of colour and a bit of wind on it towards the far end. I decided that I wanted either pegs 1, 25 or 24 so would be sheltered from the wind and rain and would sit it out for silvers. Well couldn't believe it when peg 25 stuck to my hand! Happy with this then. For company I had Rip Off Ray on 24 and John "Standing Man" Osbourne on peg 1 (pictured below playing a carp). Peg 25 is the deepest peg on the lake at 10 foot.
Decided not to fish off the platform for obvious reasons (
pictured) and spent some time reed cutting to create space for the keep nets. Soon got comfy with brolly up, felt sorry for the lads down the far end - would be difficult for them.
So silvers it would be. Set up short and long Ronnie rigs and a 4x14 Winter Titan to fish top-set plus one, which was up the shelf in 6 foot of water. As an after thought set up a RJ for the corn in the LH margin.
Fed both the long and short lines with GB with LR's on the hook. Started on the short rig and had a micro Perch first put in and that was it, couldn't get any more indications from the shallow water. So out on the long rig and started to catch some 4 to 6 oz Skimmers and the odd Ronnie. I kept topping up through the kinder pot and as soon as the line went quiet I foul hooked a Carp! So switched to the Winter Titan which reduced the fouling and started to land the occasional carp. In between catching Skimmers. I did try the margin with corn but as expected the carp didn't want to come out of the reeds nor the deeper water. I only lost one carp in the mouth due to it thinking it was a trout! I foul hooked seven - all lost. I landed eight so a draw.
My silvers weighed 12 lb and my carp 47 lb 9 oz for a total of 59 lb 9 oz from second silvers and sixth overall - an a back up default section. So a good day out of the awful weather. I think my decision to fish for silvers was correct as there are plenty there. However, somehow need to avoid the carp for a decent weight.
The match was won by Glenn Bailey (pictured right) with 105 lb 13 oz from peg 14. Glen caught down the middle fishing paste over copious amounts of soaked 4's. Well done Matey, two wins this week 😉
The silvers was won by Dave Haines (pictured with his nice net of Rudd and Roach) with 15 lb 7 oz from peg 17. Dave caught short - up and down with maggot hook bait over loose fed maggot.
Back to the "Ringer" with the usual suspects. Time has come to sit in doors.
Back to Windmill this Sunday - nice and local especially with the current petrol situation.
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