Weight - 97lb 8oz
Catch - 45 F1s, 33 Carp
Weather - Grey & overcast. Light breeze.
Match - Open (6 fished) - 3rd overall
With not a lot on this Sunday, Ivy House made a late announcement
they would be running an Open on Heron, so I booked in.
There were only 6 of us and Andy put in every other peg from
p2 to p12. I drew p12 which was the one peg I didn’t want as it’s a corner peg
that is rarely put in.
Speaking to Pete who was fishing the Winter League on the
other lakes he said he caught shallow yesterday during a pleasure session. As I
was unloading the car, I realised I left my shallow rigs at home, but
fortunately I had a couple rigs I could adapt.
As it felt a bit chilly, I started at 14m fishing a hair
rigged pellet, toss potting 4s. I caught a few carp, but it was obvious the
fish were up in the water already as I struggled to get a clean bite fishing on
the deck. Therefore, I switched to fishing a short pellet line, whilst I primed
the shallow line at 11m with maggot.
I caught a couple more carp over the short line but couldn’t
line them properly and switched to my shallow line. Whilst my rigs weren’t
perfect, I was at least catching F1s mostly on an over shotted rig.
Whenever the line needed a rest I tried the short pellet
line with limited success, which just left the margins. I fed the right margin
with corn and micros as I wanted to target the better sized fish, but I
realised a little late that maggot and groundbait was the better option. To be
honest I should have come 2nd but didn’t as I spent too long in the
first hour trying to catch on the deck, I was a bit slow getting the feed right
in the margins and I was unprepared to catch shallow.
Considering it’s the first week of November the lake fished really well, however, I expect it will fish differently when the lake is full next week.
2.
106-12 – Rob McMann – p4
3.
97- 8 – Ken Rayner – p12
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