Weight - 45lb 4oz
Catch - 13 Carp
Weather - Hot & sunny start. Southerly wind
Match - Wiltshire Angling Evening Series - 4th out of 10 (2nd of out 5-section)
Tonight’s match would be the
last evening match of the summer at Rood Ashton and whilst I was out of
contention for the series, I wanted to get back a bit of pride due to some indifferent
performances. However, the league is very competitive and I haven’t quite got
to grips with venues.
I arrived early so had plenty
of time to walk around the lake and really fancied a draw on the far bank where
the wind was blowing. I got my wish drawing the birdcage and was hopefully for
a few fish.
Due to the shortening days
the match would only be 3¼hrs finishing at 9pm, before it got too dark to weigh
in. I decided to stick with 2 swims, 11.5m in open water and under the tree to
my right where it was slightly deeper.
Starting at 11.5m with a ½ pot
of 4s & 6s I tried paste initially, but after 15mins switched to a pellet
rig with 10mm JPZ, toss potting 6s and soon caught 4 carp in 30mins, as well as
foul hooking a couple.
The following 30mins I couldn’t
catch, which was odd. I had been regularly toss potting pellet, with a few
pouches of pellet and there seemed to be fish in the swim, but they just didn’t
want to get their heads down, preferring to hover above the feed. In the end I started
to dump ½ pot of pellet after each fish which worked and it reduced the number
of foul hookers. I caught most fish on the pellet rig, lifting and dropping
with most bites coming as the bait reached the bottom.
In the meantime I had kept
feeding under tree, which produced 4 carp late on, on paste.
Immediately after the match,
it was obvious my bank hadn’t fished well and it looked like I had the best
weight, however Stu White was in my section, pegged on the end bank and he won
the match fishing meat in the margins, which meant I picked up the section money by de-fault.
Funny moment of match was
watching Pete Neate swimming the length of the lake to retrieve his top 6 which
had been taken by a carp from peg 1. Fair shout to him, he eventually found it
on the other side of the big island with the fish still attached.
1st 98- 8 – Stuart
White – p6 (end bank)
2nd 63- 0 – Tony Gilbert
– p5 (the point)
3rd 55-12 – Ian Willetts
– p2 (the lawns)
4th 45- 4 – Ken Rayner
– p7 (bird cage)
5th 39- 0 – Gary Etheridge
– p3 (the lawns)
6th 38- 8 – Rich Brimble
– p4 (the corner)
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