Only set up 2 sections of pole and was going to focus fishing
short, i.e. no messing about chasing (and wasting time) fishing shallow, like yesterday.
Starting at 2+1 on pellet, I lost 1 foul hooker, but no fish and a
switch to paste brought no bites! So 15mins and no fish in the net. Allan Oram
on p50 already had 3 or 4 carp on the pellet feeder to the far bank and my
feeder rod was still in my bag, plus I could see the rest of the section behind
me catching.
Rather than persist with the short line, I quickly set up a small
30g method with So Simple kriller sticky pellet and a 6mm orange gofter cast to
the far bank. Fortunately, I started to catch and stayed on it for at least an hour,
whilst priming my short line.
Surprisingly, I never caught a fish on the 2+1 line all match,
which meant I ended up spending most of my time on the feeder.
Since the 2+1 line wasn’t producing, decided to start feeding meat
on my top kit line instead, plus 4s and micros into my right- hand margin. Whenever
I needed to rest the feeder line, I would switch to the margin, fishing the blue ice paste, but it was
very slow. As for my meat line, there seemed to be a few silvers about as I
caught skimmers and tench, which isn’t a good sign. It wasn’t until the last
hour of the 5.5hr match that I started to catch carp short and down my margin.
Come the end of the match, I really thought I was looking at 4th
section, as I thought I had about 140lb-150lb. Martin Pettifer (p48) was
admitting to 200lb+, Andy ‘Numpty’ Eagle (p47) 160lb and Cosmo (p44) didn’t have
a clue but was likely to have caught.
As it turned out we all over estimated! Some more than others, not
that anyone took the piss about of Numpty for being nearly 40lb out.
Fortunately, my 137lb 15oz took 2nd in section and 6th overall, which I was
delighted about. Well done to Martin for winning the section and match, caught mostly shallow on pellet.
A really strange match, with most of my weight coming to the feeder. It was evident the fish were quite unsettled this weekend, probably due to the recent spawning rigours and very few big fish showed, at least in my section
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