However, it is starting to slow down as we enter autumn and I decided to fish the Wiltshire Angling open on Ash Lake. With 13 anglers there was only 1 spare peg, so when I drew p65 to find p64 was the spare peg, it’s fair to say I was happy, although there was a reason why p64 was left out.
On the all-in I started at 2+2 line, fishing 6mm kriller pellet over 4s. Initially, I was getting a few foul hookers, but by toss potting the pellet this seemed to concentrate the fish and I started catching properly. After an hour I was up to 10 carp, but then pinged out of a carp trashing my rig.
A switch to a large method cast to the far bank with a mix of blue ice & kriller RTGs and a 6mm pellet in the band and I ended catching quicker than on the pole, but the fish were a smaller stamp. After 45mins the feeder swim was slowing and I had sorted out my pellet rig.
I had kept the pellet line topped up and when I returned had another run of fish.
In the meantime, I had been feeding micros about 1.5m off the left margin where it was about 18in deep. Switching to fishing to paste (blue ice kriller), I got plenty of indications, but struggled to get a proper bite. Thinking that the micros were just sending the carp into too much of a frenzy, I switched to feeding 4mm pellet flavoured with sludge and never looked back for the next couple of hours.
With 90mins remaining, the margin was fading a little and switched to the 2+1 line where I had been feeding 8mm meat and hemp, which produced a few better carp, before returning back to the margins.
I was pleasantly surprised to finish 2nd, probably helped by the spare peg.
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