Weight - 106lb 0oz (15lb 8oz - silvers)
Catch - 22 Carp, 14 Skimmers, 1 Perch
Weather - Warm and sunny
Match - Twlight Open (13 fished) - 5th overall
After a long hard week at work, I was looking forward to
this twilight open, fished 3.45 – 8.45, which should have been renamed the skivers
open, as there were 13 of us at the draw.
Starting on the method to island produced 2 carp in the first
30mins, however I couldn’t get as tight as I wanted due to overhanging vegetation
and didn’t bother for the rest of the match.
I had fed 4s at 3+2 slightly to my left and caught a few
skimmers, but no carp. So, I tried down the end bank on corn or paste, but just
got pestered by silvers, even catching a perch on paste, so I didn’t waste too
much time here.
Back to the short paste line produced a few skimmers, but
only 1 carp. I had also been pinging 6s at 14m to fish shallow, which was
unsuccessful. However, I noticed some fizzing so decided to try paste and
caught straight away. It seemed the carp preferred to settle further out.
I set up a new short line slightly to my right feeding 4s,
as I felt the carp would prefer to settle further away from the end bank and kept
catapulting 6s over the long line. A pattern emerged where I would catch a
couple of carp before catching a skimmer and then swap to the other line.
After a slow start I had an enjoyable match and speaking to
those that framed they all fed more bait than me, so I do wonder whether I
should have been more aggressive. That said the average stamp of my fish was a
little below the average, probably because the bigger stamp followed the wind
down the other end.
2.
161- 0 – Dwayne Seed – p9
3.
130- 0 – Jamie Durrup – p8
4.
118- 0 – Chris Telling – p12
5.
106- 0 – Ken Rayner – p1
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