Catch - 4 Carp, 14 Perch, 10 Skimmers, 6 Rudd, 4 Roach, 1 Crucian
Weather - Mostly sunny and windy, later heavy showers
Match - Club - 3rd out of 13
I think it’s fair to say the carp really need to spawn, because they are just not feeding properly at the moment. Following a couple of days of warm weather 2 weeks ago, they were ready to go, but since it’s been cool & cloudy. Hopefully this weeks forecast of constant warm weather will prove correct and the carp can get it out of their systems.
Following
yesterdays struggle, I was expecting another for today’s club match at Lands
End. 13 anglers turned up, which is a sensible number for Match Lake, but was
disappointed to have P24 as my home for the day. I have some good days and some
poor days on the peg, so it was a case of see what happens.
There
was no silverfish pool today, so payout was for top 3 overall, so the intention
was to fish meat short and along the end bank looking for carp, with 2 pellet
lines at 13m out in front and to my left for skimmers & hopefully a few
bonus carp.
Starting
along the end bank on 8mm meat, feeding meat & hemp via a toss pot I soon
had a bite, which turned into a perch. After a couple more perch and rudd, I
eventually landed a carp, but after an hour that was all I had to show for my
efforts. Unfortunately Brian opposite wouldn’t be fishing long, which meant the
fish had plenty of space to back off and were unwilling to venture far from the
cover of the trees.
Fishing
meat just didn’t seem right, so switched to fishing double caster over potted
caster and I had a 45min spell of continually catching mostly perch & rudd
up to 8oz, plus a pound crucian, but I wasn’t going anywhere fast. So the swim
was converted again, to pellet in the hope of pulling a few fish to my
side of the tree.
Both
my open water pellet swims had a regular consignment of damped 4s dusted with
groundbait and by toss potting one swim and fishing the other I caught a few
skimmers on banded 6mm pellet. I had hoped for a few carp, but other than 2
foulhooker I didn’t have any. Unlike Craig on p22, who was adopting the hook
and release policy. He did eventually get a few in the mouth.
Had
we had a silverfish pool, I would have been quite happy sticking with it, but really
needed carp to at least frame. My short meat line turned out to be a complete
bust, I didn’t have a bite on it. Down the end bank on pellet didn’t produce
either and I really wasn’t sure where I was going to get a carp from.
With
2 hours left, what had been a bright sunny day with a strong wind blowing from
behind it became very dark and the heavens opened, which had everyone
scrabbling for umbrellas and coats. As for me I ended up running to the car for
my coat.
Following
the storm, the air was very still and a few carp were now showing themselves
shallow. I had tried at 16m behind the willow stump on a conventional shallow
rig, slapping for all I was worth but nothing. So I quickly attached a long
line rig and mugged a 6-7lber, which was followed by 2 smaller carp, by
swinging the rig towards the overhanging branches at 16m. I was hoping that
those 3 carp in the last 20mins would see me sneak into the frame, which
fortunately they did.
Overall,
many complained about foul hookers, which wasn’t a surprise, particular on the
island pegs. Hopefully the carp will be back feeding properly soon. Had I been
able to stick with the silvers, I’m sure 25-30lb would have been on the cards.
1st
51-13 – Chris Davidge – p5
2nd
46-7 – Craig Davidge – p22
3rd
36- 4 – Ken Rayner – p24
4th
32-13 – Tim Allen – p17
5th
26-13 – Andy Bradley – p13
6th
25-13 – Dave Bradley – p21
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