Catch - 1 Carp, 6 Perch, 1 Rudd
Weather - Overcast and mild.
Match - 5th out of 7
Back to familiar ground and was really hoping for a decent draw. With only 7 of us today we decided to fish speci lake since it was the smallest of the lakes and hopefully fewer areas for the fish to back off to.
The draw saw me on p36. Not a great draw, but wasn't overly disappointed until I saw how clear the water was. For most of the week the lakes had been iced over, only defrosting yesterday, so plenty of melt water and this peg usually struggles when its cold and clear
Started off fishing corn along various points along the far shelf hoping for an early carp, but never had a sign of a fish. Switching to the bottom of the shelf, fishing left and right with maggot over micros & groundbait did produce a few micro perch & rudd. After 2 hours hooked a carp in the tail which I eventually landed after it did everything to gain its freedom, including getting behind my keepnets, much to the amusement of everyone! I did foul hook another carp, but this one came off.
The second half of the match I just couldn't get a bite any where. I started pinging 4s to my left, hoping to pull a few carp in for later - never had a bite. Caster/maggot down the bottom of the right hand margin at 14m - produced one perch. I even tried fishing the straight lead further down the peg, but nothing not even a liner.
Russ on p34 had been struggling until he started fishing the end bank in p33. He had 1 carp off the point of the island, but nothing else, which really confirmed there wasn't many fish in the area. Top weights came from the expected areas.
Oh well always tomorrow.
1st 39- 6 - Martin Rayet -p40
2nd 35-15 - Mark Walsh - p30
3rd 33-12 - Russ Peck - p34
Silvers
1st 6- 4 - Martin Rayet - p40
2nd 3-15 - Dave Wescott - p28
3rd 3- 4 - Mike Duckett - p32
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