Thursday, 19 December 2024

15/12/24 - Lavington - Ellis Lake

Weight - 13lb 3oz
Catch - 7 Perch, 5 Roach, 2 Carp
Weather - Mild,mostly cloudy with sunny periods. Breezy at times
Match - Club Christmas Match (14 fished) - 12th overall

With 14 anglers, this Christmas match was always going to be tough one. P25 put me in an area I thought would be Ok and I at least avoided the shallower end of the lake.
 
Starting on the lead and bread produced a small carp straight away. With no further bites on bread or corn, I tried my 11m line where I fed a 50:50 mix of Black ReAct & Black Bubblegum groundbait, a few 2mm p-nut pellet and dead reds. This produced some roach up to 12oz and then another small carp.
 
The rest of the match was just a struggle. I managed a handful of perch to my right at 8m on maggot, but I really needed to catch some carp.
 
I had expected to catch by the island late on where I had been pinging 4mm pellet and corn, but never had a bite. In fact, I tried various areas of the swim without success.
 
By the all out, I was in a row of 6 pegs, that were bottom of the standings, so obviously the fish didn’t want to be in the area. My peg was 8ft at 6m and just over 9ft at 11m, which in hindsight was too deep and the fish didn’t want to come in too close the bank.
 
As it turned out the shallower end of the lake was the place to be.
 
1.    38-  1 – Tim Lynch – p11
2.    29-  6 – Martin C – p17
3.    25-12 – Terry Fell – p7
4.    23-  7 – Mark Cartwright – p5
5.    23-  4 – Tom Ince – p13   

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