With the Bitterwell match cancelled due to only three booking in. I was going to give fishing a miss this week. Geoff had previously booked in to Windmill and wanted a curry afterwards, so booked in last minute. I wasn't prepared for the match and pinched some 6 mm pellets from Geoff and a handful of maggots from Shay and Andy. Had 4's, corn, micro and worms with most of my other baits left in the garage!
Into the draw bag hoping to draw somewhere other than the low twenties. Peg 2 it was - still can't get down the other end of the lake. Handy being drawn next to Geoff peg 1 and Shay peg 3, not far to get my bait! Opposite peg 2 is a line of tall Sedges where lots of Carp live and are notoriously hard to hook and keep out of the reeds. So set up the pellet waggler - 6 banded over 4's feed. A 0.4 gram RJ for top set plus three barrels and a 0.3 RJ Slim margin rig for both sides in the Reeds which was attached to the Drennan margin top set with 25 elastic, any fish hooked wasn't going anywhere far soon.
Started on the waggler for two swirls. The Sedges are so high couldn't get close enough even when I touched the top of the Reeds. The Carp wouldn't or it was too early for them to come out of the reeds. So waggler abandoned. Fed chopped worm. micro, maggot and corn mix on the long line for just some indications. Not looking good. four hours to go - bit early for margins? Went in anyway with corn over corn and a few 4's. Had some knocks from silvers putting couple in the net. Bit slow so one more try before going for a banana walk and landed a 7 lb common - walk postponed. The elastic is very aggressive but got it out of the reeds. I had plumbed up tight to the reeds as possible on a shelf that was about 8 inches wide and is where I fed. I found laying out the rig out into the lake and letting it fall towards the shelf produced positive takes at what was guessed at as half depth. Leaving it on the shelve did produce four lost foulers. Lost three with hook pulling and line breakages due to the aggressive elastic, but non lost in the reeds, so you have the choice on which way to go on this one. Next time I would makeup some rigs with 0.2 through rather than 0.16 hook lengths. managed to land 11 Carp, 1 Perch, one Ronnie and 2 tiny Skimmers all on Corn! Ten minutes to go one of the 11 jumped out of the keep net so down to 10!! Jump must had been a near record, at least a PB. Really enjoyed today more relaxing than normal Ronnie bashing.
Weighed 11 oz of accidental silvers 😀 with the ten Carp going 62 lb 4 oz for 7th. Some lovely fish
The match was won by Matt Taynton (pictured) with 92 lb 10 oz from peg 6. Matt caught most on paste at 6 metres. With corn in his LH margin and worm over DR's from his RH margin. Well done matey.
The silvers went to Paul Barnfield with 9 lb 11 oz from peg 14. Guessing worm and micro did it for him!. Now hears a thing he's drawn peg 14 four times on the trot. Chances of this with 18 fishing every match is 1/105000. Well done matey
Best part of the day was in a cool Indian with a pint of draught Cobra, a Chicken Balti and good company.
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