Catch - 17 Carp, 7 Skimmers, 1 Tench, 1 Perch
Weather - Warm & sunny, becoming cloudy later
Match - MFS - 4th out of 31, 2nd - section
When this 2 dayer was organised accommodation was also
arranged for those who wanted it and it sounded like a good idea, so a room was
booked. Originally it was going to be in Somerton, but ended up at Cannards
Well in Shepton. Now many of us in Bristol pass this B&B/Pub on the way to
Viaduct, which also offers breakfasts as well. My suggestion – keep going,
its really shabby accommodation, which offered up a tasteless carvery. Breakfast was better, but it
really was rubbish. However, it saved an hour long journey home and it was an
enjoyable evening at the bar.
Back at the draw it was my turn for Cary, which fished a
little patchy yesterday, with the Campbell bank fishing the best and the diagonal
bank being the worst. I was a little disappointed to draw p94, particularly
when I knew Pete Bailey would be in my section on p86, and then Alex Murray
rocked up on p85. The good news, however there were a few fish moving around
ready for an 8mm pellet to be dropped in front of them.
For company I had Barry Richards again opposite on p90 and
Calcum Craig next to me on p96. I had a quick chat with Roland Lucas who caught
110lb -yesterday from the peg and I was hopeful of catching a few.
Because I wasn’t sure how to catch I set up a lot of kit,
including 2 wagglers (full depth & shallow), lead rod, margin rig, pellet
rig, paste rig and finally a long line dobbing rig.
Since there were a few cruisers out and about, I went straight
out and caught one immediately. After 2hrs I had 9 and close to 100lb in the
net. As expected the fishing got more difficult, but so far was holding my own
against 85 & 86.
The middle part of the match was quiet. I had been feeding
6s at 13m and caught a few skimmers on 8mm pellet, but no carp, although I managed
a few cruisers whenever they drifted close enough. I had also been feeding 8s towards
the end bank from the start, which did produce a small carp on meat/lead. At
the half way point I also started potting in groundbait down the right hand
margin, hopeful of a few carp late on, disappointingly this only produced a few
silvers.
My 5m line was now fizzing and 10mins of trying caught a
decent carp, but was getting loads of little knocks and a switch to the pellet
rig confirmed my suspicion. Skimmers, were the culprits and that carp was the
only one I had.
Trying the waggler produced 2 carp on the full depth rig,
plus the odd mugged fish, but they were difficult to spot since it had clouded
over a little. With 10mins to go, some scum had drifted into the corner and a
few carp were slurping, so swung in the shallow rig and hooked one, but as I
was pulling it out of the corner the elastic snap which was annoying. I suspect
the elastic had grated on the side puller and the sooner I get the freenze side
puller the better! I wasn’t happy.
By the end of the match, I thought I had about 180lb, but
knew Pete had taken the section, including some full depth waggler caught carp,
and then he made his margin work, something I really need to get sorted. Come
the weigh in, it transpired that last carp proved expensive, since it would
have put me definitely 3rd, maybe 2nd overall. Oh hum.
Despite the late disappointment, I was pleased with the
result and had my best Viaduct weight.
1st 283-11 – Pete Bailey – p86
2nd 199- 4 – Roy Worth – p81
3rd 192- 0 – Fred Roberts – p125
4th 191- 3 – Ken Rayner – p94
5th 181- 0 – Neil Morgan – p118
6th 167- 5 – Mark Poppleton - p112
Silvers
1st 73- 1 – Martin Fisher – p123
2nd 40- 0 – Dan White – p97
3rd 34- 0 – Calum Craig – p96
No comments:
Post a Comment