Catch - 16 Carp, 6 F1
Weather - Cold start and bright
Match - Tackle Den (20 fished) - 4th overall, 3rd in section
We had 20 booked on today, 12 on Kingfisher and 8 on Moorhen,
and virtually every peg in. I drew p33 on Moorhen which was OK.
I started across tapping in a few maggots and didn’t have a
bite. In the meantime, Alistair to my left started catching immediately dobbin
bread, and I had to follow suit, eventually catching my first fish 30mins into the
match.
It was noticeable I was on the edge of the fish as Alistair kept
catching and most of my fish came by fishing to my left towards Ali. I only had
1 fish to my right all match.
Over an hour I caught 8 carp all on bread, but my catch rate
was slowing, so I switched to fishing at the bottom of the far shelf (13.5m)
fishing a 4mm expander over tiny nuggets of fishery micros boosted with Baninion
and groundbait (Top G & Crushed Expander). I had to move to my left to stay
in contact with the fish, but at least I was catching albeit more F1s which
were a smaller stamp than the carp. I tried maggot on the hook to see whether I
could catch quicker, however this just resulted in a roach which fell off.
With 90mins remaining the swim was fading and decided to try
across tight to the far bank fishing 4mm expander feeding nuggets of micros and
groundbait. This resulted in more carp, bouncing between 2 swims to keep them
coming.
The last 30mins slowed down, as had the whole lake. I had
tried a short maggot line but only gave it 5mins when I couldn’t get a bite.
On the all-out I knew Alistair had won our lake and I missed
out picking up the section as Andy Burns on the end peg (p35) weighed 43lb.
1. 55-13 – Alistair Tilney – p32 (Moorhen)
2.
53- 9 –
John Brady – p42 (Kingfisher)
3.
43- 8 –
Andy Burns – p35 (Moorhen)
4.
38- 8 –
Ken Rayner – p33 (Moorhen)
5.
38- 7 –
Andy Bartlett – p48 (Kingfisher)
6.
31- 8 –
Steve Venn – p47 (Kingfisher)
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