Weight - 21lb 8oz
Catch - 6 Carp
Weather - Overnight frost. Freezing fog all day
Match - Christmas Open (50 fished) - 6th in section out of 12
50 of us at Todber for their Christmas match across
Hillview, Homeground and Ash. To be honest I wanted to avoid Ash, as I felt the
other 2 lakes were likely to fish better, based on last week’s match. Therefore,
I was disappointed to see Ash 67 staring back at me and the general feeling was
I would be on the edge of the fish, with p69-75 likely to best area.
Despite the heavy frost there was only a little bit of ice
around which was a relief and meant the ice breaker stayed in the car.
On the all-in I cast the lead and bread to the far bank
without success. So, after 15mins I came onto the pole at 14m where I tapped in
some micros and fished corn over the top and again no bites. In fact, very
little was being caught, therefore I decided on a complete change of tactic and
quickly set up a maggot feeder, cast 5m off the far bank for 45mins but again
no bites. I even tried the pole and maggot at 16m, which at least produced a
bite, but lost a large skimmer as the elastic had frozen in the top kit.
A few fish were now being caught to my right, but very
little to my left. After 2hrs I eventually caught my first carp on the maggot
feeder, quickly followed by another on double maggot sprayed with Uzit P-Nut.
In the last 90mins I had 4 more fish, 2 on the maggot
feeder, then 2 more on the straight lead and corn.
I was definitely at the wrong end of the lake today as P62
& p63 both blanked which included Pete Upperton, Ash Tomkins managed one
carp 30mins from time, so really hard. The further you moved up the lake, the
better the weights, with only 58lb needing to win the lake, so well done to
Simon Stacey who caught on the lead and bread.
Despite not getting above freezing all day the fishing was
excellent on the other 2 lakes. I didn’t hang around for the prizes and got a
surprise text from Mark when I got home to say I picked up £30 for 3rd
in the section super pool.
1st: Pemb Wrighting 242lb 6oz (78 HG)
2nd: Martin Rogers 236lb 0oz (49 HV)
3rd: Gary O'Shea 214lb 10oz (87 HG)
4th: Mark Poppleton 214lb 4oz (58 HV)
5th: Roger Hayton 207lb 6oz (48 HV)
Section A: Pete Neate 204lb 12oz (47 HV)
Section B: Adam Tester 166lb 4oz (55 HV)
Section C: Simon Stacey 58lb 6oz (74 ASH)
Section D: Tony Gilbert 157lb 0oz (84 HG)
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