Today's match was practice for the up and coming Westerleigh winter league.
Open draw and peg 17 on Taylors for me. As I would find it diffucult playing large Carp happy to be on Taylors albeit a corner peg which usually aren't great for silvers. Set up a 4x14 Winter to fish 3 barrels but soon relised that I wouldn't be able to hold it that distance for long so put two barrels away and plumbed about at one barrel, finding a few high spots which were probably stones. Set up short and long Ronnie rigs. The left hand margin was nice so hope to catch plenty of Ronnie's there. There was a little cold wind but wasn't really providing any cover or water movement.
Fed some DR's in GB, feeding some LR's down the LH margin. Started out in front with double DR's (very small). Soon getting indications resulting in a couple of small skimmers and the odd Ronnie. It was very slow so had a qiuck look in my banker margin on the short rig initially expecting Perch, but blow me couldn't get a bite from anything. Meanwhile the anglers near/around the areator were catching well. Tried the long Ronnie rig with single LR over loose feed LR's and had some Ronnie's and a couple of F1's. I was struggling as was John opposite on peg 19. Basiccaly kept trying all three rigs picking off the odd small Silvers and F1's. Lost a couple of better Carp, one breaking the tip on my Winter. Set up again but never the same - why-o-why? Silver fish are the first to react to low oxygen which I think was the reason John and me struggled, desperate for some real rain.
My Silvers weighed 6 lb 9 ozish and 8 F1's 9 lb 4 oz. A real struggle but still enjoyed the day as usual. Hoping the Doctor can sort my arm and neck. Today I saw the benefit of using digital scales instead of dial scales espeicially with low weight silver fish. The digital scales are far more diffinitive.
Taylor's was won by Matt Tainton (pictured standing due to a bad back - know the feeling) with an excellent catch of 82 lb 10 oz. Matt caught long over the bar fishing corn. Well done matey.
Silvers was a joint affair with two 7 lb 2 oz by Dave and Nick. Would digital scales had found an outright winner?
Shipp's was won by Martin Rayet (pictured drinking tea as per usual) with 58 lb 13 oz from unfancied peg 13. Martin caught on maggot long feeding about 1 1/2 pints. Well done matey.
Silvers was won by Steve Rogers (not John Winter a weigh sheet) with 2 lb 10 oz from peg 5. His catch included two deceny Perch.
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