More rain, at least it was a tad warmer and less windy - a miserable dull day in offering though.
Bridge Pool looks far from recovering, its going to be months before its fishable. Apparently EA are going there tomorrow. Some sunny warmer weather will help.
With my partner away I was lucky enough to get allocated matey Geoff Francis who drew peg 69 and with Dave Wride and Tony Rixon in his section it was going to be third at best from his peg. However, Tony was in the worse section peg, but was to snare the resident 2 lb Perch sneaked from peg 66. Geoff did really well getting a section second.
Drew peg 44. Likewise expected to beat the pegs to my right but not the two to my left. I was between Kev Winstone whom was expected to win the section and Dave The Whip.
Usual three rigs set up:
4 Metre wagglerised whip
4x14 Winter Titan
8 inch drake bodied waggler
The peg is set back in a bay. Plumbing around at top set plus two barrels primarily for the whip found 6 foot of water, however, it very much up and down guessing it was rocks. I had to go the the right at 2 o clock to find a flat spot. Wasn't confident the whip would work. Plumbed at top set plus three barrels and found it 6 inches deeper but still a bit uneven. Plumbed around with the waggler and found another couple of feet at 20 metres (I often see anglers say they fished at 50 winds which is meaningless as reels have different spools sizes). Fed the two barrel line with a ball of GB laced with some offerings of Pinkie and Caster. Two more balls potted at five barrels for the short waggler line. Started on the three barrelled Titan and didn't have any indications, so picked up the whip and had a small Ronnie, however, it didn't feel right hooking the bottom a few times. Back on the Titan and had a run of small skimmers and Ronnie's, again wasn't happy with this short line so abandoned it in favour of the three barrel line where I fed another ball of GB. Had a run of small skimmers and Ronnie's but it didn't feel right. Line abandoned in favour if the waggler, initially fished over the five barrel line had a couple of 8 oz skimmers and some better Ronnie's. It felt right so would stay on this for the rest of the match. The five barrel line died so loose feed LR's at 20 metres to keep the odd fish coming. With 15 minutes to go I hooked a carp and knowing if landed it would be a guaranteed pick up, so played it steady finally landing a 15 pounder on the whistle. All fish caught on single LR's.
I claimed 8 lb but hoped for 10 lb of silvers, weighing 10 lb 14 oz for second in section. Playing the 15 lb carp was a waste of time as I had the same pick up without it! Proper fishing is this Pool and the sections are pretty close to being fair as it gets.
The silvers was won by Kev Winstone (pictured with his catch) with 13 lb from peg 45. Kev caught at 4 barrels to his left with maggot hook bait over GB and later to struggled at 14.5 metres.
Paul Clayton had a nice day on the carp weighing 44 lb 2 oz from peg 71 which was top weight on the day with my one carp putting me second.
Back to the Compton with the usual suspects and stragglers.
Result (Silvers):
1. Kevin Winstone 13-0-0 peg 45
2. John Thompson 12-06-0 peg 66
3. Mike Nicholls 10-14-0 peg 44
4. Hughie Evans 8-14-0 peg 54
5. Chris Rolfe 8-04-0 peg 51
5. Dave Poole 8-04-0 - peg 43
Weigh Sheets:
Pairs Result (one match remaining):
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