Weight - 45lb 2oz
Catch - 34 Carp, 8 F1, 3 Gudgeon
Weather - Grey & overcast, brighter later
Match - Tackle Den (20 fished) - 2nd overall
Originally 23 had booked in and fortunately this dropped
down to 20, which meant we didn’t need to put in the corners.
I drew p20, which if I couldn’t draw between p7-p11, I was
happy with. After catching nearly 100lb last week shallow I knew it would be
different today with so much pressure on the lake and the lake fished as I expected.
I still decided to start short on the expander, just in
case, but 1 F1 after 10mins confirmed what I thought. So out to 15m at the bottom
of the far shelf, tapping in 4mm fishery pellets covered in Uzit P-nut oil,
with a hair rigged 4mm or 6mm pellet. I kept going for nearly 3 hours and knew
I was ahead of those around, however it was slowing down and I decided to push up
the shelf a bit more, but it wasn’t nearly as good as I hoped and I had a
really bad 4th hour, not helped by losing a fish where the elastic
snapped at the connector (and yes I had checked it).
By finding a shallower area at 16m, I at least had a good
last hour fishing maggot. To be honest I was a little annoyed with myself for
that bad 4th hour, because I should have caught at least 50lb to win
the match.
Performance of the match should go to Andrew Black who is
leading the club championship, ahead of me with one more match remaining, who
decided to fish despite having a bad back. Due to his bad back Andrew couldn’t use
a seat box so he fished in a fold up chair, armed with a feeder rod and a couple
sections of pole, and finished the match 3rd. Well done mate.
1.
46-15 – Pete Phillips – p14
2.
45- 2 –
Ken Rayner – p20
3.
30-14 – Andrew Black – p23
4.
30-12 – John Brady – p8
5.
29-13 – Alistair Tilney – p17
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