Weight - 59lb 3oz
Catch - 23 Carp, 9 F1s, 1 Skimmer
Weather - Sunny, with cloudy periods and breezy.
Match - Summer Series rd1 (14 fished) - 2nd in section, 3rd overall
The
1st round of Harescombe
Summer series, with the best 6 matches out of 8 counting. After Thursday’s match
I had a fair idea how I wanted to approach the match and decided to bring some
meat just in case.
Switching
to the primed shallow caster line only produced 1 F1, so I didn't waste too
much time on that, although the breeze was swirling around making it hard to
accurately feed. Next, I tried toss potting caster and corn with corn on the
hook which worked well on Thursday, but not today, adding only a handful of
fish.
With
3hrs remaining of the 5.5hrs I was struggling and falling behind those around
me. I decided to ditch the caster and switched to toss potting 6mm meat covered in Uzit A-krill cloud and a few p-nut micros along the far bank. It was like flicking a switch, by rotating left and right I started catching mostly carp, wishing I had done this sooner.
With
an hour remaining I needed to rest the far bank swims and tried my margins which
I had also fed with meat and micros but didn’t have a bite, which was
frustrating as I saw Steve Brown on p10 catching down his. I also fed meat at
2+2 and caught a couple more carp, but not quickly enough. The rest had helped the
far bank swims as I had another run of fish, although the wind was becoming
troublesome.
With
2mins remaining after netting another carp, I decided to try the short meat
line and hooked another carp just before the whistle to finish the match
strongly, but ruing not getting right to start with.
I was
happy to finish 2nd in section behind Ian Didcote who was subbing
for Mark Saunders and a good start to what should be a competitive league.
2. 75- 0 – Ian Didcote – p4
3. 59- 3 – Ken Rayner – p14
4. 53- 0 – Steve Brown – p10
No comments:
Post a Comment