Firstly - Bloody weather - cold wind and rain once again. Weather forecasters couldn't predict day and night.
Back to this lovely fishery, which is becoming very popular with the over 55's, so have booked every two weeks. Down to 16 due to holidays etc... split 8/8 on each Pool with separate payouts top 2 and 1 silver.
Paul Clayton drew for me handing over peg 1. Right Pool for me but perhaps wrong end. Had Martin McMahon next to me peg 2 - moaning a tad about it though. The night before our match pegs 2 and 3 were plundered which wouldn't help his peg and as it happened moved the fish across the other side of the lake where Tony Rixon was waiting to plunder on peg 11.
Set up a 4x14 Winter to fish top set plus three barrels. A 0.3 gram RJ Slim to fish either down to the bush or the down wind LH margin and optimistically a paste rig for the LH margin both margins were a bit too deep for my liking.The plan was to secure the silvers placing and carp later.
Started on the long line with triple Pinkie over GB and as can be expected the F1's are first to the feed and had three decent one's, three pesky small Crucians, a Ronnie and a small Skimmer before the wind got a bit harsh for me. Went down to the bush with double DR's over kindered micro and DR's and had a Ronnie before catching some line snagged in the bush so off the box to retrieve the rig. due to the wind dragging the rig away from the bush switched over to the LH side with double LR's over potted micro and LR's it was a small Perch every put in plus the odd Ronnie which were coming off, so set up the short Ronnie rig with single LR over loose fed LR's had a run of Ronnie's and better Perch and an F1 before it went quiet. Definite sign of carp about so chanced the paste and surprised to land three carp for 30 lbish. Kept switching between maggot and paste to keep some silvers and decent carp coming including a strange Mirror carp with a fan tail. Was about to go down to the bush with the paste when people started packing up - time shot by today.
Silvers weighed 5 lb 6 oz for pool silvers win and a total of 71 lb 15 oz for second so nice double bubble.
Tony Rixon pictured above stormed the match with 173 lb 8 oz from peg 11. See his blog for the details, but it looked to me as he caught everywhere on anything including an F1 on a bare hook! Well done matey certainly landed on them today.
Bit too wet for more photo'. Kit now drying - out again!
Result:
Taylor's Pool:
1. Paul Barnfield 48-11-0 peg 22
2. Shay Gillman 46-04-0 peg 16
Silvers: Shay Gillman 12-0-0 peg 16
Shipp's Canal:
1. Tony Rixon 173-08-0 peg 11
2. Mike Nicholls 71-15-0 peg 1
Silvers: Mike Nicholls 5-06-0 peg 1
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