Full house at 20 - Pegging same as the Winter League. With an open draw. Didn't mind where I drew as you can never tell where the fish are going to be. The wind direction sometimes gives a clue, but with light winds coming from the SE I was unsure. May be worth collecting data on wind direction and catches.
Bread was allowed today. I don't use it as it usually means fishing long. I often hear the words "Dobbing Bread", but not sure they actually do this in the manner first intended.
Peg 6 again for me, which won the last match. For company on 5 was Vince Shipp which came second. So what to do? Decided to to keep both options of Carp and Silvers - start for Carp and see what fish salutes the flag.
So three rigs with the 4x12 Winter doing most of the work as the two lines I chose were almost the same depth - marked the deep line with a marked pen above the float and the shallower below the float adjusting accordingly. Long Ronnie rig for silvers and a 0.3 gram for the RH margin.
Bait wise - DR's, LR's, Pinkies and GB.
Fed the two barrel line with GB and Pinkie and four barrel line with DR's. Started at two barrel and as previous match on peg 4 was catching F1's regularly and again in the first hour was winning the Lake, and again it petered off. So on to the four barrel line and few more F1's, plus some Ronnie's. Mike Etheridge on 8 was catching well, Vince was struggling. Matty opposite on 10 and Bela on 4 were doing OK, couldn't see anyone else. Decided to switch to the Ronnie and silvers. Caught a 12 oz Perch and 12 oz Skimmer, so stayed with this for the rest of the matching adding the odd Crucian and F1 and the occasional better Ronnie. Sport was interrupted when I hooked a double Common which was played for a very long time before the hook length let me down - I had caught a lot a fish on it though!!
Weighed 3 lb 10 oz of Silvers and 17 lb 12 oz of F1's and Crucians for a total of 21 lb 6 oz for a silvers win. Enjoyed the day especially when Vince's umbrella collapsed over his head - twice! Plus was able to pack up in the dry - at last.
Shipp's was won by Mike Etheridge (pictured with Taylor's pool winner) with 64 lb 8 oz from peg 8, Mike caught on 8 mm punched bread just off bottom fishing over and down the right side of the island and later long down his left margin where he caught the Lion's share of decent Carp - feeding nothing. Well done matey.
Taylor's was won by Taylor with 38 lb 4 oz from peg 22. Mark caught at 16 metres with punched bread on bottom, again no feed. Well done matey.
Andy Gard took the silvers on Taylor's with a lowly 1 lb 7 oz waggler caught small Roach from peg 17.
Feeding is in my DNA, so would find it unsettling to fish without feeding? I would at least take some liquidised bread.
Back to the New Inn for a pint. Always a good part of the day.
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