Catch - 10 F1, 9 Carp, 15 Skimmers, 1 Roach
Weather - Cool & showery start, brighter later. Blustery breeze.
Match - Open (8 fished) - 1st overall.
After having last weekend off with friends, I was looking
forward to today’s match.
There were only 8 of us today, probably because it was
easter Saturday, so I was not fussed where I drew, but peg 5 wouldn’t have been
my first choice as it hasn’t been the best area recently, but at least we all
had plenty of space today.
I then switched to fishing 4mm expander (flavoured with
project X) over small nuggets of micros with some groundbait (crushed expander
and green re-act) a metre off the island. I had considered fishing tight to the
island, but the breeze was making presentation awkward.
I was little concerned when all I could catch was skimmers,
but decided to stick with it for the next 2hrs hoping the carp/F1s would turn
up later. Other than 1 small carp and 1 lost lump, it was all skimmers, whilst
Steve Partington on p10 and Lucas on p25 were now catching and pulling ahead.
In the meantime, I had kept both my short meat lines topped up
and when I dropped in on them, I had a big skimmer from each swim and must
admit I thought – oh dear!
Fortunately, the carp and F1s turned up with the right-hand
swim being the stronger. With 75mins remaining, I sacked off the left-hand swim
to concentrate on the right that was now producing some better stamp carp
during the last hour.
I had also started feeding meat and micros down the left
margin, which produced 4 F1s, and groundbait down the shallower right margin
which only produced 1 fish.
At the all-out I thought that Lucas opposite had beaten me,
but those early skimmers proved crucial as I put nearly 10lb of them on the
scales to win the match with 61lb.
1. 61- 3 – Ken Rayner – p5
2.
57- 9 –
Lucas Hurcombe – p25
3.
54- 0 –
Nigel Reeves – p15
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