Catch - 6 Bream
Weather - Cold start. Bright and sunny, and very wind
Match - So Simple knock Up (8 fished) - 2nd overall
What started as a couple of us having a bit of a practice,
soon turned into an 8 peg knock up. The only issue was the wind, and it was
certainly blowing when we arrived.
I didn’t care where I drew. I just wanted to try a few different
things, such as trying a new 13ft Freespirit Power Feeder Special rod, but I’ve
never really used braid and thanks to Roy Worth for helping me look at using
power gum as a shock leader which was really helpful.
I drew p8 and fortunately a big tree provided me with some
shelter from the wind. However due to that wind which was forecast to get
stronger I decided to fish a sensible 55m, to keep it accurate and just build
up a single swim.
The good news was I at least had some 60g large ICM Banjo
feeders, so that’s what I fished for the rest of the match, casting every
10mins to build the swim.
2hrs in I eventually had a positive pull on 3 dead maggots
soaked in BMG and a 5lb lid was safely netted. 2 more followed before it went
quiet. By this point Andy and Chris who had drawn in the deeper water were
walking the bank. Apparently, the wind and tow was so bad they couldn’t hold a
60g feeder!
It turned out my 3 bream put me 2nd so far with
no else catching more than 1 fish except for Rich above me on p9, who had 6.
With no more bites I decided to feed another 5 big feeders
full of bait and 30mins later I had another bream, again followed by 2 more on
dead maggot, before it went quiet. I did hook another with 10mins remaining but
pulled out of it.
As it happened it didn’t affect the result with Rich very
comfortably winning the match and watching him fish it was obvious he is very good
at this long distance feeder flinging. I was pleasantly surprised to come 2nd
and more importantly picked up a number of tips for next week’s match.
2.
27- 4 –
Ken Rayner – p8
3.
10- 0 –
Roy Worth – p6
4.
9- 6 –
Colin Butler – p7
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