I did consider targeting the silvers, but with the pairs match on Friday and the upcoming teams of 4 today represented an opportunity to work out a few things if I drew poorly in the league.
After 2hrs 10mins I had only caught a handful of silvers on the pole at 11m and no carp,
although I had lost 3 foulhookers. Richard Yeo only had a couple on p39 on the straight lead, as had the angler on p42 and it didn’t seem there were many carp in the area.
As I was struggling, I decided to be quite positive with my feed. Pinging pellet 2/3 of the way to the island, produced 2 carp on the straight lead and corn, but it wasn’t right as the wind was spreading the feed over too wide an area.
I had also been feeding meat at 2+2, plus micros (choc orange RTGs) and baninion boosted corn 2m off the right margin. Due to the wind, I ended up using a 0.5g chimp rig on the meat line and started to put a few fish into the net, including a couple of decent ones and was starting to enjoy myself.
The margin swim was a little slower to get going but I had 3 carp on corn in the last 15mins.
In the end I thought I had a 65-70lb, however I badly underestimated my first 1st net which had 16 fish as it went over the 66lb limit (probably 70lb) and I was knocked back to 50lb.
My final weight put me 5th in a 10-man section, instead of 3rd. Fortunately this didn’t cost me as p46 on the spit had 110lb to pick the section money, however a note to self not to make the same mistake in the winter league. Despite this oversight I was pleased with how the 2nd half of match went and it was nice to feed some bait.
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