Back to Bitterwell down to 12 fishing again to holidays and work commitments etc...Paul Issacs has had the aeration on for three days nonstop as the oxygen levels were down - could see he was concerned. The day before he had walked around in the margins measuring the oxygen levels and found that the shallower far end had the highest oxygen levels. He put this down to having the least silt - the organisms in silt need oxygen. So pegs 24 round to 18 the pegs I would like.
Silvers only today.
Into the draw bag and peg 28 it would be which put me next to a pleasure angler on 29 which didn't bother me. Next to Barny again on peg 26.
Set up two Ronnie rigs and a 0.3 Gram RJ to fish down to the corner of the rushes. Started with maggot over GB and after trying both the long and short Ronnie rigs and having just one Perch abandoned both. Tried the RJ with worm over GB and LR's and pulled out of a 2 lb Tench. So made my mind up to fish this rig for the rest of the match. Five Carp and three skimmers and a hybrid later went on a banana walk and everyone was struggling except the two meat heads - Martin Rayet peg 23 and Martin McMahon peg 19 both having weights in the teens. Back in the saddle and back on the RJ and had three more skimmers but took the Carp hooking to eleven landed Carp from 7 lb to 14 lb however, a couple of the lost fish may have been Tench - but might have been hallucinating due to the heat. Thirty minutes to go had a 3 lb Bream on worm. Think I had pissed off the Carp as it went quiet. Eight minutes to go had a big Tench which if it was 4 lb might just take me to double figures. Two minutes to go hooked what was another decent silver but the hooked pulled - may had been fouled hooked.
Was surprised to weigh 13 lb 4 oz for third overall with my Tench going 5 lb think a PB - what a lovely fish worth going just to catch this one.
As expected the two meat heads were first and second with McMahon's 6 mm meat (pictured above) beating Rayet's 7 mm meat by 8 oz (pictured with today's catch).
Nice to Matt Drinkwater out today coming 4th within 12 lb from a hard area. Well done Matey.
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