With nothing on local I managed to get in to Tony's silvers match at Plantation. Travelled with matey Glenn Bailey. With Tony having to earn an honest living it was left to Ron Hardiman to run the match which was well done I must say.
Into the draw bowl and out comes peg 11 - umm, not sure its a peg of choice but would be out of the wind. Monday's match it DNW'ed. I was also surprised that peg 12 was also in, occupied by the affable Lee Waller. Peg 11 is set 13 metres back from peg 8 back in a bay. Glenn had drawn well with peg 7 next to Pete Z, these two would have a bit of pole fencing to do - Diawa v. Preston - pole roller set up pictured.
The light on the water was awful so set up a white, red and black tip 4x13 MR rigs to fish three lines. The 4 metre whip was wagglerised which could be fished top set plus 2 barrels equivalent. My initial target would be the decent Ronnie's that reside in this lake. I fed a 11.5 metre line at 11 o clock (white tip) with half a cup of micro. Fed the whip line with one ball of GB with a smidgen of caster and Pinkie and started to lose feed a few caster over the top. First cast with single LR I had a 8 oz Skimmer - good sign. Had to wait 15 minutes before my next fish, a decent Ronnie. I was already feeling a struggled developing. In my panic fed three balls of GB at 10 metres at 2 o clock (black tip) and left it to cook whilst a look over the micro line with a 4 mm expander. No sign of a fish umm. Back on the whip and started to catch some small Ronnie's followed by a short run of skimmers to 2 1/2 lb - looking up! Fed again which left it to have a try over the long GB line and again not a sign of a fish - not even a Ronnie umm. Back on the whip and another short run of Skimmers. had stopped feeding casters in favour of LR's. Started to catch the odd better Ronnie but already knew any coin was far out of reach. Tried the long GB line again and had a 6 oz Skimmer (the only silver from a long line) I was getting indications so stayed on it until the culprit was captured a 7 lb carp which lead to unarmed combat in the landing net, line subsequently abandoned in favour of monking the match out on the whip adding the odd Ronnie and Skimmer. It would have been worth a trial of the wag and mag, so wished in was in the roost.
My silvers weighed 17 lb 8 oz so a good days fishing by any standard and in great company. Don't know why the Ronnie's weren't in this peg.
The match was won by Paul Faiers (pictured) with 42 lb 6 oz from peg 32. Paul caught short both to his right and down his left into the bay using maggot hook bait over small balls of GB and loose fed caster. Well done matey.
From the weigh sheets over the past few matches it appears the fish are flowing the wind moving from one corner to the other in accord with the change in wind direction.
No pub as Glenn had to get back quick to watch the Stiff Little Fingers. Heard of them but not listened to them so put them on this morning - bet Glenn doesn't know the words 😁. No my cup of tea.
Result:
1. Paul Faiers 42-06-0 peg 32 (caught short)
2. Mark Broomsgrove 37-14-0 peg 28 ( caught long)
3. Gary "Junior" Bowden 26-14-0 peg 1 (caught short)
4. Glenn Bailey 26-13-0 peg 7 (caught long)
5. Dave "Willy" Willmott (chip shopped) 25-04-0 peg 31 (moaned)
6. Andy Gard 21-07-0 peg 16 (nice net of Roach matey caught short)
Weigh Sheets:
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