Today’s match was at Todber with 42 anglers over Ash,
Hillview and Homeground, and was pleased to draw p49 on the right side of the
spit. This was my first match at Todber since last year and John had decided to
reduce the match times from 6hrs to 5hrs, which will save time for the weigh
ins and the number of required keepnets!
On the all in decided to start on 6mm pellet, dampened with
So Simple new Blue Ice boost juice, which I was trialling for Andy. Despite its
name the liquid was clear rather than blue and smelt really sweet. Fishing at
9m, I initially thought I had made a mistake as most of those around me who started
shorter, started better, whilst it took me 15mins to get my first fish.
However, by regularly toss potting pellet I kept going for 90mins, pulling ahead
of those that started short. It was steady, rather than hectic and when the
swim started to die a switch to corn produced a couple more fish, before pushing
out to 11m feeding pellet & corn and fishing corn that I had another run of
fish.
By the half way stage my swim completely died, but it felt
colder under the increased cloud cover and northerly breeze. I had started
feeding meat short, which didn’t produce and the left hand margin, where I fed
blue ice flavoured micros and corn only produced 1 fish. Mind you it did weigh 19lb 9oz, which beat my PB by 1oz.
With just under 2hrs to go my margin line started to come to
life, toss potting corn and micros fishing double corn, occasionally switching to
the short meat line when the margin needed a rest. I know I pulled ahead of Ash
Tomkins (p52) and Roy Worth (p55) during those last hours, however Simon Stacey
(p60) won the section with 164-11, which was 3rd overall giving me
the section money.
2- 172- 0 – Joe McMahon – p70 (Ash)
3- 164-12 – Simon Stacey – p60 (HV)
4- 162- 0 – Dave Willmott – p89 (HG)
5- 156- 8 – Callum Dicks – p43 (HV)
6- 142- 7 – Ken Rayner – p49 (HV)
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