Into the draw bag and out comes peg 22 on Taylor's. I would normally run to this peg, but since the big freeze over the fish have shoaled up at the other end vacating their normal island haunts.
Found myself between Norman "Winter Paste" Ferris and Phil Coulam whom I've not seen for some time. He amazed me today with the amount of equipment he set up around him in such a short time. Nice to see him again.
Thought the waggler the best option so set that up first and a short rig for the silvers as suspected the two Shipps down the right end would clean up today.
Started on the waggler with single LR on the hook fished over loose fed LR's and had two small Carp. It then slowed down and what surprised me that I couldn't catch any silvers on it. On to the short line with double Pinkie over GB laced with the same. One small Carp and one micro Perch. Meanwhile the two Shipps were bagging at 14.5 metres. For the first time for years set up the full 13 metres of the Colmic 808 which didn't quite get me far enough up the far slope, but was hoping for some Skimmers over GB and Pinkie. Fished this for an hour for one lost carp and Ronnie. Packed that up. Spent the rest of the match on the waggler catching the odd occasional small carp in pairs and one Skimmer. Difficult to work out the feeding, should have tried shallow.
Finished with 11 carp and 12 oz of silver for 13 lb 13 oz.
As expected the Shipp's (pictured) emptied it, both catching 55 + lb with only 1 lb between them. It looked like all the silvers were also down their end. Interestingly Vince caught on soft pellet and Ryan on maggot and GB.
Tim Ford won Shipp's canal with 27 lb from peg 11. Tim fished banded pellet over 4's. See his blog for further details.
Bill Ferries won the silvers with his usual net of small Ronnie's fishing short with maggot and GB.
Martin McMahon was runner up on Shipps with 21 lb 11 oz all caught on hard pellet in the last 30 minutes!!
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