Weight - 6lb 9oz
Catch - 6 Carp/F1, 3 Skimmers, 2 Rudd, 2 Perch, 2 Gudgeon, 1 Roach
Weather - Rainy, became increasingly colder
Match - Open (17 fished) - 13rd overall
I decided to fish this Thursday’s open in preparation for
Sundays teams of 3, as I haven’t fished the lake for 8 years.
Driving to the venue along the motorway, the heavens opened and
I was 30 seconds behind a car that decided to test the integrity of the central
barrier.
On the all-in I started tight across to the point of the
island, fishing a 4mm expander, toss potting a nugget of crushed expander and
2mm Uzit p-nut pellet. After 20mins I had 2 skimmers, but felt a heavier bait
was required in the ‘flow’ and switched to fishing 6mm meat. This produced a
1lb carp and a 2lb F1 by the end of the first hour.
The 2nd hour was a real struggle. The rain had
started up again I was getting ‘bites’ across, which were either small fish
nipping at the bait or bigger fish swimming through the line. It was becoming
increasingly frustrating.
I tried fishing down the track with dead maggot, but only
caught a couple of small silvers and the tow was increasing due to the
additional rain.
Next, I tried down my left margin where I had fed micros and
dead maggot, where I had a little run of fish, but everything was small
including the 3 carp at 2oz a piece!
I had also been feeding micros and meat by the pallet of p1,
which produced 1 carp late on, but I missed too many bites, not just down the
margin but across by the island as well due to poor presentation in the
swirling water.
1.
33- 6 –
Les Harper – p6
2.
32-12 – Mark Wooldridge – p12
3.
18-14 – Phil Auger – p11
4.
18- 7 –
Allan Oram – p23
5.
17- 0 –
Dave Rugman – p17
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