Catch – 13 Carp, 8 Bream, 7 Fantails, 5 Roach, 2 F1, 1 Crucian
Weather - Sharp shower to start. Mostly sunny, with odd light shower. Increasingly windy.
Water temp – 18.0c > 18.5c
Managed to get Friday off work, which meant I had 1 day to practice for Sunday’s match and 1 day to prepare for a week’s trip to Stafford Moor.
As with most pegs on the Match Lake at Bullocks Farm, peg 21 had the usual features, in this case reeds bordered by wood panels.
My intention for today was to put what I learned last week into practice. I started at 11m in the open water, after feeding micro pellet & expanders.
After 15mins I probably had 6lb in the net, which was a great start. However, as the session progressed the fish didn’t seem settled. I was soon feeding a pot of pellet and then switching to the near read swim on paste. In the end I was feeding the open water swim by a toss pot, but I would only feed once I hooked a fish, by turning the pole. This seemed to work, but only for 3 or 4 fish at a time, before having to switch to another swim.
In the last 2 hours I concentrated on the paste. I had left the far reed swim and the margins alone, but still feeding to build the fishes confidence. This paid dividends with a number of carp, although I lost a few due to hook pulls. I got the impression the fish weren’t feeding confidently and I was only lightly hooking them.
There was a 7 peg knockout on the lake, which was won with 31lb, so I was really pleased with my final weight.
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