Weight - 156lb 12oz
Catch - 40 Carp, 1 Skimmer
Weather - Dry start, a couple of showers and a sunny afternoon.
Match - Open Rover (17 fished) - 6th overall, 1st on the lake.
When I arrived, there were a few fish sunbathing and hopeful
of a catching a few. On the all-in I immediately tried the mugging rig and
caught a carp within 5mins, at which point all the sunbathers disappeared,
re-
appearing to my right in the quiet water.
Moving across tight to the far bank fishing paste (Uzit GLM
& Betaine) over 4mm and micros p-nut pellet, catching straight away and
finished the hour with 6 fish, although the swim had slowed, and I wasn’t sure
paste was the right approach.
Therefore, I decided to switch to fishing meat covered in
Uzit A-krill cloud, tapping in 6-8 pieces of 8mm meat with a few micros. It was
slow to get going and by switching left and right along the far bank on a light
strung out rig, I moved up to 17 fish by the halfway point (3hrs). The fourth
hour was excellent with another 11 carp, before the fishing slowed.
I tried fishing paste in the margin, which was 4ft deep and
a 2+2 
line after I had been feeding both lines for the last 2hrs, but the
response was disappointing catching only a handful of fish and I needed to move
back to the far bank.
At the weigh in I had won Hawthorns, but reports were
filtering through of a couple of 200lb
weights on the other lakes and the chances of me being in the top 4 was looking
remote for a pick up and that is how it turned out.
The only disappointment of what was an enjoyable day was the
average stamp of fish, which were smaller than expected.
1. 220-12 - Dave Cockayne – p8 (west pool)
2.
215- 8 –
Kurt Pinkett – p11 (main lake)
3.
215- 0 –
Luke Fothergill – p7 (main lake)
4.
199- 1 –
Dom Sullivan – p12 (west pool)
5.
185- 2 –
Matt Shephard – p2 (west pool)
6.
156-12 – Ken Rayner – p11 (hawthorns)
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