Weight - 45lb 7oz
Catch - 9 Carp, 1 Skimmer
Weather - Short shower to start, mostly sunny with cloud periods
Match - Pairs (28 fished) - 18th overall, 7th in section
Mark did the draw and drew himself p42 on Kingfisher, whilst
he gave me p13. Oh FFS, I really don’t like this peg and my section included P7
to p14, so not to sound too dramatic I was up against it.
I started on a small hybrid with dampen 4s and a 6mm pellet.
This produced 2 carp in the first 30mins, but nothing else. I tried micros and
then a method feeder, but except for 1 tiny carp I never had another fish.
I managed to catch a few carp at 16m on paste but had to
continually back off the swim to let it settle.
As it was fishing hard, I set up a negatively fed pellet
swim at 13m off at an angle but this didn’t work either.
To be honest I wasn’t overly concerned about the poor start
as I’ve had a number of matches here were I’ve caught late short and/or down
the margin. However, that didn’t happen today. I had a couple of fish at 5m and
had carp coming into the margin but bolted out almost immediately.
A really frustrating match, which unfortunately went as I expected,
with pegs 7, 8 & 10 taking the top 3 in section, whilst I finished 5th.
Except for the end pegs 10,11 & 18, I had the best weight on my bank, so
putting it into perspective I just wasn’t in the best area.
Mark managed 3rd in his section, beaten by the 2
end pegs.
1.
218- 6 –
Chris Telling – p2 (OML)
2.
202- 4 –
Mick Lane – p48 (K)
3.
145- 0 –
Joff Rogers – p39 (K)
4.
134- 8 –
Steve Waters – p7 (OML)
5.
116- 8 –
Mark Poppleton – p42 (K)
6.
111- 4 –
Alfie – p44 (K)
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