There's not much in match fishing that gets me more excited than match fishing a new venue. Back in the day the like's of Tony Rixon et el found new venues around the South West and organised matches, these matches brought excitement and great anticipation (from some talking up), always enjoyable even though we often caught very little. So off to The Clamp which brought strange looks from anglers that have fished it when making enquiries. Never seen the place even though have strained my neck driving past it many times trying to get a glimpse.
15 pegs on the Lake with 13 fishing. Had a quick look around, looked OK. Into the daw bag and out comes peg 13 on the 13th Umm. Found my self next to Julie the winning one Carp specialist on the lake.
Told it was very hard venue but plenty of small silvers, unlikely to hook a Carp - yeh right! So bait wise only took mixed Pinkies and GB consisting of Sensas Lake and Magic. Simple. Set two light elasticated top sets and a 4 metre whip. By feeding small nubs of GB and loose fed Pinkie kept small (minute) Ronnie's coming until the last 15 minutes plus a couple of Skimmers to 8 oz. Did foul hook a carp and lost another in the reeds due to being unable to get to the top set quick enough to pull elastic. Reeds and me are having a number of fall outs at the mo.
Weighed 6 lb 8 oz for the silvers win and third in the match. Very enjoyable albeit siting in a very cold facing wind.
The match was won by Jason Pitman (pictured with the silvers winner) with 9 lb 13 oz from peg 11. Jason caught at 14.5 metres to the island using maggot hook bats over micro. Well done matey.
No doubt a great pleasure venue.
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