Catch - 15 Carp
Weather - Warm, sunny, cloudy periods. Increasingly windy.
Match - Tackle Den (17 fished) - 6th overall, 4th on lake
The information I received about how to approach this match
was ‘slap, slap and when you are bored slap some more’. I’ll be honest I wasn’t
that excited the prospects of slapping all day.
I was asked (with Andy Burns helping) to peg the lakes with
8 pegs each on Cottage and Selwood. Having pegged Cottage, we had nearly
completed Selwood, when Brian Duckett informed us, an extra peg was required.
As a result, this meant there was 1 peg that didn’t have a spare peg either
side – permanent peg 14, which I promptly drew and in hindsight I wish I had
put an extra peg on the opposite bank, as the wind was blowing into that bank.
I didn’t mind which lake I drew so long as I was at the
windward end, so I wasn’t that enthusiastic about my draw with wind blowing directly
from behind, but at least I could cast to the island. I really need my drawing
arm to return.
On the all-in I started on the method to the island without
success and fed some 4s and micros at 5m.
A switch to fishing paste at 14m feeding a few pellets with
paste, resulted in liners but no proper bites. Eventually I caught my first
carp over my 5m line after 45mins.
I did try slapping a pellet over the 14m line, but whilst
there were carp around they didn’t seem interested and after 15mins I got bored
and never picked up the rig again.
I had been pinging 8mm pellet to the island and first cast
on the straight lead with a red 8mm pellet resulted in a 2lber and a further 3 carp
soon followed.
The 2nd half of the match I caught a couple more carp
on the straight lead, before concentrating on the 5m line and the left-hand
margin fishing paste. I was having a frustrating time, with loads of liners and
no proper bites, until I cut out feeding micros, feeding just 4s was much
better.
I did try worm down the margin which resulted in 1 carp, but
paste seemed to be best, catching 3 fish in the last 15mins.
In the end the draw went against me as the windward side of
both lakes, proved to be the place to be. An angler on each lake lost their 1
net, Andy Burns went over the net limit and Steve Venn lost 30/40lb when his 3rd
fell in whilst doing the weigh in. Needless to say he was still very happy to
have beat me by 1lb.
1.
162- 4 –
Andrew Black (Cottage)
2.
116-14 – Michael Triggs (Selwood)
3.
109-15 – Vince Grillo (Cottage)
4.
89-15 –
Andy Burns (Cottage)
5.
85- 9 – Pete Philips (Selwood)
6.
84-13 –
Steve Venn (Selwood)
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