Tuesday 14/05/2024 - Acorn Cost Cutter - Paddocks

A rare visit to Acorn for their cost cutter with Glenn Bailey. Nice to catch up with some of the regulars. Fancied peg 10 where the wind was blowing into. Into the bag of eyeballs and found myself on peg 31. Before the de-silting I would run to this peg, however, told this end of Paddocks has been fishing hard. Found myself next to Glenn who was on bridge peg 33, fancying his peg.

I gave the peg a good plumbing and had a really good margin to the left - nice depth and wide. So thought I would fish the short Ronnie rig over caster there, was expecting Carp to arrive at some time so set up a 0.3 gram paste rig. My target however, was the Tench so a 4x14 fished at top set which took me up the shelf by a couple of inches adding a barrel later if necessary to target the Skimmers. The far bank is a far far 20 metres so thought I would try the waggler even though the wind would make it very difficult.

Mixing up some GB it was amazing how hot the water was as were the fish.

Loose fed the Ronnie/margin line with caster and the Tench line with a mix of finely chopped worm and caster. Started on the Ronnie rig expecting some Ronnie's, Perch and perhaps a Skimmer or two, had just one bite a bootlace Eel - not looking good so far. Went on the Tench line with a piece of worm and had two 2 lb Tench in two put in's. Interestingly both were caught on the drop. After a bit of a wait and having probably over done the feed had two Skimmers. Subsequently it got hard. Had a quick look on the waggler with double LR's over loose fed same. First cast and the light splash of the waggler sent the Carp bow waving away. Had one liner before binning it, the wind was far too strong, felt that on the right day it could be a good method. Been feeding the margin continuously, so tried the paste - nothing. Time to go to the one barrel line over GB laced with LR's. Put the LR's in some GB to get it down to keep the fish on the bottom. Stayed there for the rest of match catching what looked like 2 lb Skimmers that weighed 1 lb. Seen a swirl in the margin so went over it with paste and after a couple of lost foul hookers and with 30 minutes to go made up a maggot rig up for further along the margin over kindered maggot and had a 11 lb 6 oz Common. Felt this would have been the the way to have fished the margin instead of paste.

The silvers weighed 11 lb 5 oz for a total of 22 lb 11 oz. which was a bit disappointing. However, the venue generally fished hard, probably due to post spawning and the changeable weather.

The match was won by Paul Faiers (pictured with the silvers winner) with 119 lb 11 oz from peg 10. Paul caught on maggot with 50 lb of his weight coming in the last hour from the margin. Well done matey.

The silvers went to Tony Whitcombe (pictured) with an impressive weight of 69 lb 9 oz of Tench. Tony caught at 11 metres fishing three maggots on the hook over 2 pints of loose fed casters. Well done matey not all about paste. Thanks for the pint.

Back to the Prince of Waterloo for a pint.

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