Sunday 18/02/2024 - Westerleigh Winter League - Round 6 - Taylor's and Shipp's

My turn on Taylor's Pool which after overnight heavy rain causing the pools rise about 1 1/2 foot. It was suppose to be dry today, but at 2 pm we had a right down pour, little did I know my car window was left open - duh - going to take some time to dry the driver seat out.

Into the car boot taking disc nearest - peg 22. Good peg if you can fish 14.5 metres. The pool definitively designed with the larger angler in mind! As I was out of the league placings decided to fish for silvers whatever peg. However, peg 22 is the deepest peg on the pool, and due to the cold rain being on the bottom in the deepest areas expected the silver fish to be more likely to be in the shallow water.

For company on peg 23 was Ricky Mills of the Mills Scaffold fame.

Plumbed up finding the water shelves off steeply from bank to top set to 7 foot. It was going to be difficult to find shallow water so set up the waggler to get to 17 metres, the short Ronnie rig, a 4x14 Winter to fish top set and 4x16 to fish at full depth about another 6 inches at various lengths.

Fed small amount of GB laced with DR's on a line close in to the right down wind and the top set line. Started on the latter really strange fishing that deep so close in, can see every indication. Had a decent start catching  small Ronnie's and pesky small Perch. It slowed up and the culprit an F1 was soon in the net. F1's are a nuisance if they come are over your feed, find it's a question of leaving the line a while before refeeding. Onto the Ronnie rig and another good start adding five 3 oz Tench and more small silvers. However, couldn't fish as close in as I would like because of a snag. Caught two more F1's before trying the top set line again which was slow adding a couple of small Skimmers. Changed the Ronnie rig to the left which was better stayed there until cup of tea time so having previously fed the waggler line had a cast on it and had one bite which was missed the single LR was sucked right out!! Tried again but the Ducks were being a nuisance, only had to pick up the catty and they were there waiting. I tried the full depth rig at two barrels for nothing, so spent the rest of the match on the Ronnie rig.

The 3 F1's weighed 4 lb and my silvers 10 lb 12 oz for the silvers win. Pleased with that off this peg. Might have given the waggler longer as sure there were Skimmers out there. I did leave 2 Ronnie's in my keep net so lost 2 oz.

Our pool was won by Ricky (pictured with his catch of Carp) with 55 lb 1 oz from peg 23. Ricky had a few long over to the island on hard pellet, a few down the middle on meat and later long down his edge again with meat catching some of the better Carp.

An amazing 104 lb 3 oz came off Taylors peg 8 caught by inform Bela Bakos. Again with meat at 13 metres our three lines. Meat seems to be the inform bait. Too messy for me.

Back to the New Inn with the usual suspects, where I spent all my winnings. Great company.

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