Weight - 108lb 14oz
Catch - 81 F1s, 8 Carp, 2 Perch, 1 Skimmer
Weather - Sunny, heavy rain shower later.
Match - Tackle Den (21 fished) - 3rd overall, 1st in section.
I’ve been looking forward to this match as I have enjoyed my
previous visits to Tunnel Barn. Today we were on Top Pool and I was a little
disappointed to draw p19 at the narrow end of the lake with the wind blowing
down the other end of the lake.
Plumbing up revealed the lake was a little deeper than I expected,
and the margins were 3ft deep.
I started on a pea size piece of Uzit GLM paste at 2+2 and
soon realised there were quite a few small F1s in the swim. After 30mins as I couldn’t
catch any quality fish I switched to my right margin on a top kit where I had
been feeding meat and caught some bigger F1s amongst the smaller ones.
In the meantime, I had prepped a shallow caster line at 14m
by a small island. I caught a few on a conventional shallow rig, but soon
swapped to an overshotted rig and had a really good 45min spell when I had some
ripple. However, when the swim went flat calm a jigger rig kept me in touch
with the fish, before the swim faded. A further switch back to the overshotted
rig pushed under the overhanging reeds kept me going, but it was hard going.
Although I could catch the occasional 2lb F1, most of the fish were 12oz to
1lb.
To give the swim a rest I also caught a few fish at 6m shallow
down the left margin.
With 2hrs remaining the weather turned cold and very windy
as a heavy rain shower passed through. When it stopped, I couldn’t catch
anything shallow and was struggling.
To make something happen, I decided to drop a big ball of
micros down my left margin on a top kit plus 1 and caught really well including
an 8-9lb carp on paste. In the last hour I simply alternated between the paste down
the left margin and meat in the right margin.
1.
139-13 – Jason Crump – p3
2.
112-13 – John Pearce – p1
3.
108-14 – Ken Rayner – p19
4.
101-13 – Ian Barker – p13
5.
92- 8 – Dan Barnett – p27
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