Weight - 65lb 8oz (19lb silvers)
Catch - 28 Skimmers, 1 Roach, 17 Carp, 1 F1
Weather - Cloudy and muggy
Match - Open (11 fished) - 1st in silvers, 4th overall
A return visit to the Old Match Lake at Ivy House, which I haven’t
fished for a few months. To be honest it hasn’t been fishing well recently
although recent results have been improving, although fishing the tea bag seems
to be dominating again.
I drew p12 which isn’t my favourite area and with the 2 tea
baggers (Allan Smith and Richard Rogers) drawing p1 & p2, an area which won
the last match, the regulars felt we would be fishing for 3rd.
For me I wanted to play around with a new paste mix which
revolves around the U-Zit GLM groundbait. On the all-in, I tried the method
with fishery micros and 6mm wafter and immediately caught a small carp. A
couple more followed before the swim died.
After 45mins I switched to a 3+2 line where I had been
feeding 4s, fishing a hair rigged 4mm pellet and to be honest I was
disappointed with the response, particularly as Simon Dukes on p10 already had
a couple of carp and skimmers from his short line.
I did catch a small carp and couple of skimmers and decided
to switch to the paste. Again, I caught a small carp and a couple more
skimmers, but it didn’t feel right with what felt like more skimmers than carp
in the peg, so I quickly set up a paste rig I have been using for F1s, i.e. 0.15
to 14 hook, rather than 0.19 to a 12 hook.
This was much better as I started to put skimmers up to 2lb
in the net, staying on this line for much of the match. I occasionally tried
the tea bag and 8mm pellet by the island to rest the swim, where I had been
pinging 8s. This would produce 2 or 3 fish, but again they were on the small
size.
At the halfway stage, news filtered down that the tea bag
boys had already had 60lb each, so decided to stay on the skimmers.
Coming into the last hour the short line was fading, so I
started feeding 4s off to my right at 3+2. I had also been feeding my margins,
with corn, 4s and micros, which the roach loved so I just increased the feed.
I managed a couple of better carp on the tea bag before switching
to my carp paste rig and this produced some proper carp from the new short swim.
Finally, I managed a proper carp late down my left margin on double corn.
An enjoyable day and I’m pleased I stuck with the skimmers
to win the silvers.
1.
118- 0 –
Allan Smith – p1
2.
114- 8 –
Richard Rogers – p2
3.
70- 0 – Dean Johnson – p7
4.
65- 8 – Ken Rayner – p12
Silvers
1.
19- 0 – Ken Rayner – p12
2.
14- 4 – Paul Baker – p5
3.
11- 8 – James Dave – p16
1 comment:
Well done Ken
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