Catch - 6 Carp, 34 Skimmers, 5 Roach, 1 Perch
Weather - Mild, windy and occassional shower.
Match - Open (9 fished) - 3rd overall
Mark Poppleton has organised a number of opens at Todber on
Hillview Lake. With a maximum of 20, Mark thought he would be turning people
away. However, the 11 or 12 that had booked in, dropped to 9, which raises the
question – what is happening to the match scene. It wasn’t that long ago that
20-30 anglers at Todber was standard for a Saturday open, but now if you get
more than 10 anglers for an open you are doing well, which is a shame.
I ended up on p56, with Mark Wynne to my right and Tom Thick
to my left.
On all-in I fed some 4s and corn, boosted with baninion at 8m.
Whilst that settled, I started on the method towards the spit opposite, fully
expecting a few pulls. After 15mins I only caught a small skimmer on a 6mm
yellow gofter and no carp had been caught near me.
Despite the mild conditions, the water temperature was still
low at 7.3c, and combined with the very up and down weather the fish didn’t
seem to be feeding. Therefore, I quickly set up a new rig (chimp 0.5g) to fish
4mm expander and maggot. I also fed a ball of groundbait (Top G : Crushed
Expander) with baninion micros at 10m.
I immediately started catching small skimmers and roach on
maggot, before switching to 4mm expander, catching better stamp skimmers,
feeding a small nugget of groundbait/micros every 2nd fish.
With 90mins remaining, I moved out to 11m, just feeding
pellet and corn, fishing corn on the hook. I caught some better stamp skimmers
and some carp (at long last).
In hindsight, I missed a trick as both Tom and Toby (p59)
caught over 30lb of skimmers, just feeding pellet and corn. I think feeding
groundbait just attracted too many small fish into the swim.
Still an enjoyable day to finish 3rd overall.
1.
80-10 – Mark Poppleton – p60
2.
59- 8 –
Dave Brittian – p52
3.
50- 3 –
Ken Rayner – p56
4.
48- 0 –
Tom Thick – p55
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