Catch - 50 Roach, 14 Skimmers, 1 Rudd
Weather - Mild and cloudy
Match - Silverfish Only Open - 11th out of 17
I really fancied some silverfish fishing and decided to book in, although the chance of a pick up was going to be remote with 2 England internationals and a number of very good silvers anglers in attendance.
Peg 18 put me on the railway bank, with Scott Puddy on 19, Kev Newman on 17 and Gareth Lennox on 16.
On the all in 3 balls of groundbait was deposited at 13m, plus caster off to my right at 12m. Starting on the waggler firstly with maggot and then corn cast just off the island only produced a few a roach and a hand size skimmer. A switch to the pole over groundbait after an hour produced a number of small roach, but no real quality. Scott had managed a couple of skimmers on the feeder, but was also being harassed by roach.
Despite refeeding in a number of ways the groundbait line only produced small fish. The caster line was better, with bigger roach, but the issue was there were a number of anglers who were catching some proper sized skimmers and I was falling further behind. I decided to stick with the caster line, moving out to 14m hoping the skimmers would move in later. In the meantime I kept feeding corn towards the island, hoping this line would be solid late on.
By staying on the caster, I eventually had a pound skimmer, quickly followed by its bigger brother and thought here we go, but alas the roach returned.
A switch to fishing the straight lead and corn late on produced 2 good sized skimmers, before a 14lb carp put in an appearance unsettling the swim and the skimmers disappeared.
An enjoyable day with plenty of bites and although I had the best weight on this bank I simply couldn't compete with other areas of the lake which fished very well, with the bulk of the better weights falling to the feeder or waggler.
1. 34-10 - Des Shipp (Preston) - p24
2. 33- 2 - Callum Dicks (Maver) - p3
3. 31- 9 - Gary Etheridge (Devizes) - p4
4. 30- 6 - John Fuidge (Thornbury) - p25
5. 28- 1 - Mark Leader - p10
6. 19- 3 - Bob Gullick (Mosella) - p11
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