Drawing peg 16 was a good start, as it’s a peg with form. Decided to start at 16m fishing a 6mm killer pellet over 4mm fishery pellet flavoured with sludge. I was soon attached to an 8lber which I promptly lost at the net and unfortunately that set the tone for my match. I only caught a couple of carp at 16m and in hindsight probably overfed it.
After an hour I tried my skimmer line at 14.5m to my left fed with corn and micros, which again produced a few fish, but it was really slow.
Casting a small method loaded with micros & rocks with a 6mm yellow gofter cast to the island was my best swim, but for some reason I struggled to keep the fish on the hook, losing 1 in some reeds on the island and 4 under the rod tip. It was really frustrating.
With 2 hours to go I hoped my margins would come to my rescue, but again it was slow and frustrating. I had 1 carp to my right on kriller paste over micros & 4s and another on corn down my left, but the fish just didn’t seem to settle losing a couple of foul hookers.
I also tried a 5m paste line, which produced a 10lber and I thought here we go, but after that only had a small carp and a skimmer.
Really not happy with my match, just felt I was trying to force the swim too much, which wasn’t helped by losing fish. In all honesty I felt I should have had at least 80lb had I fished a better match, so was disappointed when only 78lb was needed for 2nd. At least there is plenty of room for improvement!
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