Weight - 4lb 12oz
Catch - 1 Carp, 16 Roach
Weather - Bright start, cloudy and cool later
Match - Teams of 3 (36 anglers) - 10th out of 12 in section
Today was the 2nd round of the Teams of 3, having
missed the first round due to the re-arranged last round of the Ivy House
Winter League. I had selected to fish Meadow Lake, whilst Jason Crump would be
on Field and Laurie Laing on Match Lake.
Fortunately, the recent rain had coloured up the lake, so it
wasn’t as clear as Friday and I was hopeful of at least catching to avoid a
blank. As the priority was to at least catch I set up a 0.4g chimp with .10
bottom and 5 elastic to fish at 13m over a 50:50 mix of U-Zit Black Bubblegum and
crushed expander with a few 2mm p-nut micros.
On the all-in I tried the lead and meat cast ¾ across to the
far bank, but with no indications after 25mins, I switched to the 13m line and
soon caught small roach on single maggot. I tried expander and double maggot to
improve the quality of fish, but couldn’t catch anything other than roach.
After 2hrs, I had noticed most anglers had at least 1 carp
and since I couldn’t catch anything other roach, I needed a carp of my own.
I had been pinging corn and 4mm p-nut pellet ¾ across
towards the far bank and did catch a 3lber on double corn, which sadly was
smaller than the average stamp.
I also feed meat at 3+2 hoping the carp would turn up late
like they did on Friday.
I also tried the margin, initially with maggot just hoping
to a get a bite without success and soon switched to feeding meat again without
success. The angler to my right on the end peg had netted a couple of carp along
the end bank and there were a few carp showing themselves, but they weren’t straying
far from the end bank. So, with an hour to go, I tried to force the peg, big potting
groundbait, corn and micros down the margin, I also catapulted several pouches
of 4mm pellet across the lead line.
As for the meat I just kept trickling in the meat over the
short line, but never had a bite from anywhere.
The top 3 weights came off the dam wall end and the angler
to my right came 4th 31lb (4 carp). As for me I only beat the 2
anglers immediately to my left and had my carp been 1.5lb heavier I could have gained
another 2 spaces, but in reality, I was up against it.
1.
74- 9 –
Luke Seabrook – P3 Meadow
2.
51- 5 –
Andrew Black – p10 Field
3.
50-10 – CJ – P4 Meadow
4.
44- 5 –
Ricky Mills – P9 Field
5.
43- 0 –
Allan Oram – p2 Meadow
6.
42- 8 –
Cliff Dutton – p11 Field
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