It was -2c when I left home and apparently -5c overnight at the venue meaning a hard day was likely. At least with a match on the main lake opposite, there wouldn’t be any anglers walking or running up and down the far bank.
In the meantime, I kept the 5m line topped up with maggot in the hope of some skimmers or carp as a back-up line. After an hour I saved the blank catching a roach on maggot, but this line only produced roach proving to be an unnecessary distraction.
An hour later I eventually caught my first carp from the far bank on a 6mm baninion expander over baninion boosted micros. An hour later I caught my 2nd & 3rd carp and it is fair to say it was slow going!
The frustration was Steve Smith to my left on p5 had 4 or 5 carp in this time from that far line. With 2hrs remaining I knew I was behind p1 and p5 and decided to big pot micros and some groundbait to make something happen – it didn’t, although I did manage another carp off to my right at the limit of my swim, but the fish weren’t really feeding with all fish being hooked around the mouth.
I had been feeding meat at 6m to my right, but it wasn’t until the last 30mins that it produced 3 fish for 18lb. As for my margin, it wasn’t until very late that I saw any movement by which point I was concentrating on the meat line, but no one had more than 1 carp from the margins, probably not helped by the cold weather.
Overall, a bit of a head scratcher as I felt I should have caught more from that far bank. Had I, I would have been able to push for the section. That said a few lessons learnt for next time.
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