Weight - 92lb 9oz
Catch - 19 Carp
Weather - Warm & sunny
Match - Twilight Open (12 fished) - 6th overall
Well, this was a match of 2 halves, not helped by the realisation
that I left my no.5 section at home and missed the first 15mins as I returned
home to collect it.
I drew P5 which is Ok and a peg I won from a few weeks ago.
Once I got back to my peg I started on the method to the
island, whilst I sorted out my pole rigs, I lost everything on the 3rd
cast to an underwater snag and didn’t bother setting up another.
A switch to paste at 16m, potting in 6s and catapulting 6s
over the top, I soon caught my first carp, but struggled to get a proper bite. There
were a number of fish swimming through the swim which I tried catching shallow
without success.
I kept feeding quite heavily with 6s hoping the fish would settle
and did catch 2 more fish on paste but I think I had over done it by being too
aggressive with my feed.
Ideally, I wanted to catch over my short line where I had fed
6s from the start, to be my main line, but surprisingly this line didn’t produce
a bite despite the swim fizzing.
At the halfway point (5hr match) I only had 3 carp in the
net. I noticed p13 opposite had been catching the odd fish shallow, but not a
lot had been caught along my bank and I hoped for a few late on.
As I felt I got the feed wrong on my 16m line, I moved to my
right at 16m on the other side of the island gap, just feeding through the toss
pot which worked much better as I started to catch.
I had also been feeding both margin with 6s and they started
to show signs of life in the last hour. I needed to feed micros to keep the fish
coming and managed 4 from the right margin and 3 from the left all on paste to
add 45lb.
In the end the slow start probably cost me a frame, although
the bulk of the weights came from the bottom end of the lake.
1.
131- 1 –
Carl Mulford – p10
2.
121- 8 –
Tim Hadland – p8
3.
105- 8 –
Mick Lane – p12
4.
98- 6 – Gary Knight – p16
5.
97-10 –
Mike – p13
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