Weight - 59lb 7oz (10lb 15oz - silvers)
Catch - 9 Carp, 3 Skimmers, 1 Tench, 1 F1, 1 Ide
Weather - Mostly cloudy, following cool start
Match - Open - 7th out of 10 (3rd silvers)
Following Monday's match I was looking forward to today and was pleased to draw p19, which usually provides a few fish and I came 2nd from it 2 months go.
With only 1 silvers pay out today, I didn't see any point setting up any silvers rigs on this peg and decided to focus on the carp, using similar tactics to Monday. The only difference was the inclusion of a meat line at 5m to my right.
Well 5 days is a long time. Starting on the long line pellet rig I hooked a carp after 5mins only for it to fall off. Then I couldn't get another.
A switch to the paste rig down the track failed to produce despite plenty of fizzing in the peg. In fact the paste failed to produce anything down the track all match.
I eventually landed my first fish, a skimmer after 45mins tight to the island toss potting pellet. However I was already falling behind Clint on p18 who catching next to the island bush and Russ on p1.
Must admit the next couple hours was really frustrating. I tried the long line swinging rig and fishing tight to the island with either pellet or paste. Also tried varying the feed, cupping bait in, toss potting and catapulting, but just couldn't get into any rhythm or work how the fish wanted it. In the end I decided to just keep catapulting bait to the point of the island, hoping they would settle later in the match - they didn't and I probably overfed trying to force the peg.
My meat line was also disappointingly slow, producing a tench and only 1 carp. I had also fed my right hand margin with 6s from the off, but only caught 2 carp. I really wasn't going any where.
After catching the tench, I had a F1 and an Ide on pellet fishing across, I considered targeting the silvers, but couldn't see the benefit since I expected someone to be catching silvers. However, hindsight is a wonderful thing. The big skimmers hadn't feed in any numbers and no one was putting together a decent weight.
With an hour to go, I opened a bag of caster that I had left in my carryall not expecting to use them. 3 handfuls were deposited to my left on my top 3. 10mins later fishing double caster, I caught a decent carp, followed by a good skimmer. I then pulled out of what felt like a decent skimmer. I did the same thing to my right with the same result and ended up only 2lb winning the silvers.
A disappointing day, but I don't think the paste will be coming out again this year and I'm not sure the meat will either. Also need to keep my hands out of the bait tubs.
1st 152- 7 - Russ Peck - p1
2nd 150- 6 - Clint Wotlyla - p18
3rd 96- 2 - Matt Tomes - p11
4th 88-11 - Mike West - p15
Silvers
1st 12-13 - Dave Wescott - p7
2nd 11- 0 - Dave Sawyer - p24
3rd 10-15 - Ken Rayner - p19
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