Weight - 24lb 11oz (14lb 14oz - silvers)
Catch - 3 Carp, 6 Bream, 4 Roach, 2 Ide
Weather - Mostly cloudy and cool breeze.
Match - Club (12 fished) - 4th overall
I drew p25, which to be honest I wasn’t that happy with as
it 6ft deep at 2+2, going to 7ft further out, which I felt was too deep to
catch properly. Therefore, I needed to catch short fishing left and right in 5
or 6ft of water or fishing tight to the island.
I started on the method to the island but overhanging
branches were problematic and ended up switching to the pole lines much soon
than intended. I had kept pinging 8s to the island and fishing the straight
lead a couple of metres off the island, but never had a bite.
On the all in I had fed a 50:50 mix of Black ReAct : Black
Bubblegum, with dead maggot and micros 10m to my right in 6ft of water. The first
2 hours were quite productive, catching 4 bream, with a few smaller fish in between.
I found topping up with a small ball of feed every couple of fish was best,
however as time went on I had to wait longer for bites.
I had also been feeding meat and micros to my left, catching
a 6lber quiet quickly and fully expecting to catch a couple more. However, I
only managed 1 bream over this line.
I had also been feeding margins, caster and corn down the
right and meat and micros down the left. I never had a bite, in fact at the end
of the match I scooped the margins with my landing net and the bait was still
there.
The fish just didn’t want to come in too close and I
regretted not bring a waggler rod as Martin to my left managed 3 carp on maggot
in the last 2hrs and they were a much bigger stamp than mine.
As it happened the top 3 came from what were end pegs and
probably an indication the fish preferred at the quieter ends of the lake.
1. 45-15 – Tom Ince – p1 (incl. 25- 8 silvers)
2.
37-15 – Tim Lynch – p11
3.
30- 9 – Martin
White – p27
4.
24-11 – Ken Rayner – p25
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