Catch - 24 Carp, 1 Roach
Weather - Wet start, clear and sunny later
Match - Airpsrung AC - 1st out of 9
I always look forward to the first match of the year at Rood Ashton since it means summer is on the way, although I think its hiding as it was chucking it down when I arrived in the car park.
Today was an evening match fished 6-9.30 and with 9 fishing we were well spread around the lake, so no really bad pegs. I drew peg 1, which is the first peg by the car park. A good peg which tends to have a lot of smaller resident fish, but with so much space I fancied it for a few.

Tactics today where simple, meat over groundbait down the right and just meat to my left.


A text from Mark pegged opposite the island said he had 10 and I could see Steve Martin further down catching and I didn't think I was to far off the pace.
I had also being pinging pellet at 13m as a back up, but couldn't get a proper bite, so discarded that line after 10mins of trying.
Back down the left the carp had arrived, catching 3 fish on the bounce, before the fish disappeared again and this was really the pattern for the evening. The short margin swim had died completely, which meant I had to keep swapping between the left and right 13m swims, fishing 10mm or double 8mm meat.
With 30mins the left hand margin had died completely and decided to start a new margin 6m to the left tight to the bank in the shallow water. It didn't take long for the fish to turn up and in the last 15mins I managed 4 more carp, including a 7lber.
On the all out Steve was admitting to 18 carp and as news filtered down it was starting to look like I may won, which is the way it turned out. Really pleased with that result, as that was my best Rood Ashton evening weight.
1st 96-12 - Ken Rayner
2nd 78-4 - Mark Poppleton
3rd 65- 8 - Rich Whitmarsh
4th 50- 0 - Steve Martin
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