Weight - 129lb 5oz
Catch - 43 Carp, 4 Roach, 1 Perch
Weather - Grey, overcast and cold.
Match - Open (11 fished) - 5th overall
After a tough month of not catching a lot, I decided to fish
todays open to get a few bites and looking at yesterdays result the bulk of the
fish appeared in front of pegs 58 & 56 which were first and second with 486lb
(Martin Rogers) & 446lb (Jack Stamp) respectively.
I wasn’t disappointed to draw p48 and speaking to Lee Jan who
drew it yesterday, he weighed 262lb for 4th mostly catching down the
margin on maggot over micros.
I started at 4m on 6mm bubblegum pellet over 6s. After
45mins I had 11 fish and looking around it seemed to be on par with everyone
else. I had an early look down my margin, but had no bites and my short pellet
line was now fading.
As there were fish boshing by the island, I tried fishing
the method, hooking 4 fish, but only netting 2 and by the end of the second
hour I had added not a lot as I chopped and changed. In hindsight I was trying
to force the peg too much, expecting 200lb+, when the fish weren’t really
having it.
I wasn’t the only one struggling and decided to change tact
slightly. I set up a new line at 10m, feeding 4mm pellet, instead of 6s and started
catching again, but just as I thought I was lining a few up, the swim faded
again. Fortunately, the margin swim started to show signs of life where I
caught for the last 90mins fishing dead maggot over micros, although the last
15mins the fish had backed off.
Overall, the lake fished harder than yesterday, and I didn’t
get my feed right and should have fished a different match, but at least I
caught a few fish which was welcome.
1.
237- 0 –
Tony Gilbert – p44
2.
184-14 – Alfie Rhodes – p54
3.
157- 2 –
Adrian Drew – p49
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