Weight - 188lb 3oz
Catch - 31 Carp
Weather - Windy & showery
Match - Club - 1st out of 11
I haven’t fished our club
water much so far this summer and was looking forward to todays match which
would be fished between 2-7, but I wasn’t looking forward to the forecast wind
and rain. Fortunately the rain
wasn’t quite as heavy as expected, but the wind was as strong as expected.
11 members turned up
and I found myself on p6, which meant the wind was blowing across me from the
left and any thoughts of fishing shallow were soon dismissed. The depth in this
peg varies widely from just over 6ft to my right and 2-3ft to my left. So 2
paste rigs (.19 > 12 carp feeder) were set up to fish each swim.
Each swim got a pot
of 8s and I started in the right hand swim with paste. 45mins later I had 4 fish,
but couldnt get another bite. Due to the wind I had to mix the paste a little
stiffer than normal, but I didn’t expect the swim to die so quickly.
Into the left hand
margin and it was obvious the fish preferred the shallower water and I was soon
getting bites/liners, but was having a mare. Typically this shallower margin
has smaller resident fish under the tree, which then bolt around the corner as
soon as they are hooked, which was causing a few issues. However the main
problem was finding a flat spot to fish onto, due to all the stone/boulders
dumped in the swim to shore up an eroding bank. Also the wind, meant I couldn’t
fish too long, due to the reeds blowing all over the place. After 90mins I had
lost 3 rigs and several carp, mostly foul hooked.
A change of tact was
required. Instead of toss potting the pellet, I started potting in the bait to
force the fish down and I also setup a pellet rig (ackoo powertrap 0.2g >
.17 > 16B960) which worked much better than the paste.
As the match
progressed, the only person who I could see catching well was Andy on p10. After
2hrs he had a 5 fish advantage over me and was catching some proper lumps on
pellet. Now that I had sorted out how to fish my peg properly, I felt I needed
to have at least 3 or 4 more fish than him to overcome the bigger stamp of
fish.
For next hour we
both caught roughly the same number, but in the 4th hour I caught then
overtook Andy, but was really conscious of the fact it would be close. Most of
my fish still came from the left margin, whilst my right hand swim only
produced a couple. The fifth hour was slow for both of us and I wasn’t
confident that my 31 carp would beat his 27 and a bream. As it turned out
there was only 1 fish in.
1st 188-3 - Ken Rayner - p6
2nd 183- 5 - Andy Bradley - p10
3rd 130-11 - Chris Davidge - p16
4th 123- 9 - Andy Lord - p3
5th 108- 1 - Glenn Putterill - p27
6th 85- 7 - Roger Putterill - p21
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