Weight – 19lb 9oz
Catch – 9 Roach, 5 Perch, 3 Carp, 1 F1, 1 Rudd.
Weather – Mild. Bright, windy!
Water Temp– 9.0c > 9.5c
Match – Open – 8th overall.
I managed a 1st during the week when playing 5 a side football, I got sin binned for 5mins, giving the ref a little too much verbal! Which isn’t bad for a keeper. Just as well I don’t get so heated when fishing.
As for Johns Lake is becoming a bit of a bogey lake for me, so I really wanted to gain a bit of confidence before next Sundays Winter League round, however peg 61 wasn’t what I wanted.
As we where setting up the lake was like a mill pond and I set a couple of 4x10 & 4x12 rigs. On the all in a slight breeze picked up, but it was more than manageable. After 15mins everyone around me was catching except me, which was frustrating. After 30mins I managed my 1st fish, a 1lb F1 on corn, but was 2 carp behind those around me.
I was at least starting to get indications fishing next to the island and over the next 30 mins I landed 2 carp and lost 2 foulhookers. They also wanted feeding! So a good match was on the cards. However after 90mins the wind had really picked up to the point it was difficult to the pole at 14m and my light rigs were now redundant.
A heavier rig was set and although it improved presentation, holding the pole tight to the island was becoming a bit of a joke. I set up another swim at 10m, but never had anything from it.
On the basis I felt carp were feeding and moving around, I thought I would try the far side again, but this time feeding and fishing caster, instead of micro pellet. So at least I would get regular bites and hopefully I would pick up the odd carp. Unfortunately it didn’t happen that way. I caught a few silvers, but I had to wait too long for bites, even varying the depth didn’t help. Plus, by now my back was beginning to seriously hurt holding the pole in the wind.
My margins swims had failed to produce, so just for something to do and a little preparation for next weeks league match I set up a silvers swim at 5m feeding caster. I picked up mostly roach, plus a couple of perch up to a pound, but bites were slow. I did foul hook a carp, which I thought was a rogue fish, until 5 mins from the end I properly hooked another, which I managed to land 13mins after the all out on 6 elastic, .10 bottom & 22 hook, Food for thought next week.
As for the match, 3 anglers around me had packed up early, defeated by the wind. Anton & Adrian opposite had managed to keep going. Anton had a quick start to the match, whilst Adrian had a few fish down the edge when he couldn’t catch long.
Garry Wall won the match from peg 70 with 36lb, whilst Alan Oram was 2nd with 30lb from peg 41 opposite.
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