Weight - 257lb 8oz (15lb silvers)
Catch - 52 Carp, 14 Skimmers, 1 Tench
Weather - Cloudy and muggy. Rain later
Match - Open (9 fished) - 4th overall, 2nd on lake
After seeing there was an open being run at Shiplate over the
canals I decided to jump on as I enjoy my visits. Sadly, there were only 9 of
us and a decision was made to split us over both canals, rather than putting us
all on the 1 lake, mostly because Steve Howell didn’t want to be surrounded by
too many people. At least it would mean lots of space and hopefully bites.
I drew p2 on West Pool, which is a peg I have always fancied
drawing. There was a reed bed to the left where I decided to fish GLM paste, although
my main attack would be 8mm meat covered in A-krill cloud.
On the all-in I had thought about starting across on the far
bank with meat, however there were a couple of pleasure anglers on the main lake
who were doing a lot of walking between their pegs as they were setting up.
Therefore, I decided to start by the left-hand reed bed whilst the pleasure
anglers settled down and started fishing.
After an hour I probably had 50lb of carp, plus 10lb of
skimmers and a single tench, and a much better start than I expected. I found
feeding 6mm p-nut pellet was better than micros, probably because the swim was
nearly 3ft deep.
A switch to fishing across on meat, which proved to be
troublesome. On 3 occasions I managed to snag on underwater roots, which required
me going around and pulling them out. Once the swim was cleared, I caught, but I
didn’t feel it was quick enough. I also lost a complete rig, when the elastic
snapped on the puller, which was annoying as I only checked the elastic last
week, but obviously not closely enough.
A quick try down the right-hand margin in 18in of water,
fishing meat over GLM groundbait and bubblegum micros resulted in a good run of
fish that were a better stamp than those I was catching across. In fact, I
never went back to the far bank again.
After 3hrs (6hr match) I probably had just over 100lb. Back
down the left-hand paste swim, I had a really good spell for 30mins before I
started foul hooking.
The remainder of the match was a case of alternating between
the 2 margins swims, where feeding 6s down the left was still best and toss
potting groundbait/micros, plus a couple of cubes of meat was best down the
right.
I had the occasional look over a 2+2 swim fed with meat, where
I caught a couple of carp, but the 2 margins swims were definitely best.
I was pleased to weigh 257lb and a PB for the venue, where I
ran venue expect Kirt close, missing out on the lake win by 20lb and was left
ruing my bad 2hr hours, but still a great days fishing. As it happened
Hawthorns fished even better!
1.
309- 7 –
Gary Flinders – p3 (Hawthorns)
2.
298- 8 –
Dave Cockayne – p5 (H)
3.
279-12 – Kirt Pinkett – p6 (West Pool)
4.
257- 8 –
Ken Rayner – p2 (W)
Silvers
1.
21- 8 –
Ron Stark – p9(W)
2.
15- 0 –
Ken Rayner – p3 (W)
3.
13-10 – Golly – p11 (W)
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