To be honest I didn’t get it right in the first hour. I tried to catch shallow without success, before catching a carp across on the method. As the wind started blowing from behind, I tried fishing corn across, big potting micros and corn. This produced a couple of small carp and skimmers, but the wind started being a pain again and I wasn’t catching as well as I hoped.
I could see Ricky catching well on p8 and Mark called me to say he had about 65lb after 90mins from p2, so I was already way behind and needed to get going.
I had fed 6s at 8m catching a few decent size skimmers on 6mm kriller pellet, but only 1 carp. I had also fed, both margins with 4s, where I caught a couple of carp on paste from the left margin, before they disappeared. The right-hand margin only produced a couple silvers.
With 2 hours remaining the 8m line had faded, so I came back to 6m potting a half cup of micros and 4s, fishing paste over the top. I was still catching skimmers up to 3lb, but I was at least catching a few carp up to 10lb in between.
The left margin was a bit a frustrating, as I started with nice clean bites, before suffering with too many fish in the swim and false bites. In hindsight I should have fished double corn or worm over the top.
Overall, an enjoyable evening, but a little too far behind the top 2, who both caught fishing shallow, so I probably missed a trick.
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