Weight - 4lb 5oz
Catch - 1 Bream, 2 Skimmers, 3 Perch, 1 Perch
Weather - Cloudy, sunny later. Light breeze.
Match - Open (28 fished) - 17th overall
Managed to jump onto one of the few opens allowed at
Shearwater run by Clayton and was more than happy to draw the boathouse on the
lawns. However, we were met by an otter swimming around.
After an hour I didn’t have a bite on the hybrid, but neither
had anyone else on the lawns! As well as the otter we also had 2 cormorants for
company, which were obviously unsettling any fish in the area.
As I couldn’t get a bite, I decided to feed a 25m line and
fished a conventional cage feeder with dead maggot. This produced a couple of
small fish and then a bream, but after that I struggled to get another bite.
For the rest of the match, I swapped between the hybrid and
a conventional feeder at 61m for 1 perch, occasionally dropping in on the short
line for a couple of small fish.
I tried waiting for up to 25mins on a cast on the long line and
even tried fishing beyond 61m, but just couldn’t find any bream or carp.
A quiet day, where my section was won with only 23-15 (1
carp and 3 bream) and 4 of us only had a 1 bream, so not the area to be in.
In hindsight, I think I fed too much groundbait over my long
line, it attracted too many small fish, which in turn encouraged the
cormorants, but I still think I would have struggled.
1.
104- 8 –
Andrew Pritchard – p15 (dam wall)
2.
69-11 –
Zak Williams – p5 (road side)
3.
67- 8 – Jack Stamp – p9 (road side)
4.
40-10 –
Steve Trevett – p11
5.
39- 3 – Mike Brown – p3
6.
31-15 –
Andy Neal – p1
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