Catch - 15 Carp
Weather - Cold, cloudy, strong south westerly
Match - Club Christmas - 1st out of 12
On Friday I was officially unemployed as I left my employer of 14 years on Thursday. A new adventure starts on Monday, still working as a pension specialist, but my new role is more technical, with loads to learn, but with better prospects. Have to say I'm feeling exciting, which I haven't felt about work for the last 2 years.
With some free time I took a trip to my club water on Friday, catching 15 carp and a bream mostly on the lead/bread, adding some late fish on the pole/pellet.
Today the weather was a little different with a strong wind forecast for most of the day and it was cold overnight, so I really wanted an open water draw, so I could cast towards the middle of the lake if required. As it was I ended up on p17 in the top corner, which at least offered some protection from the worst of the wind.
Before the draw Dave Bradley served up bacon & egg baps from the back of his car. Very welcome, as was the cup of tea.
Since I was near the top corner I couldn't cast too far, so decided to focus on the pole, fishing 12m and on the edge of the left hand bush. Rigs for the day:-
- small grip mesh feeder > .17 > 16 carp feeder - bread
- Ackoo Powertrap 0.4g > .16 > 16 B911 - hair rig corn/bread
- HB dweezil 0.5g > .14 > 16 B911 - 12m
On the all in I started by the bush on bread, without feeding, but didn't have a bite after 15mins so switched to the feeder, fishing popped up bread with mashed bread through a small grip mesh feeder, casting as far right as I dare. After a hour 2 carp was the result, but it was definitely slow going and from what I could see no one had more than 2 at this stage. The 2nd hour produced another 3 on double corn from the bush. Unfortunately the wind was proving troublesome and getting any prolonged presentation at 12m was difficult. When the wind did drop I caught 3 carp including a 13lber on 6mm expander. I even tried the straight lead over the pole line when the wind was really bad, but didn't have a bite.
By continually switching between the long line and the bush I finished the 4th hour with 10 carp. The fifth and final hour proved the most productive with 5 fish coming from under the bush on double corn.Come the weigh in, it was fairly obvious I had won, with everyone else struggling. Although it was commented a decent angler would have caught a 100lb - lol
1st 99-10 - Ken Rayner - p17
2nd 31- 3 - Andy Bradley - p5
3rd 23- 0 - Tim Allen - p21
4th 22-10 - Graham Millard - p12
5th 20- 0 - Chris Davidge - p3
6th 19- 8 - Gilly - p7
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