Weight - 71lb 8oz
Catch - 21 Carp
Weather - Overcast and cold. Breezy later
Match - Open (14 fished) - 6th overall
There were 14 of us for today’s Open run by Mark Poppleton.
After a severe frost on Thursday night and a less severe frost last night no one
was sure how the lake would fish, but more importantly the lake hadn’t frozen
as the ambient water temperature was still high enough.
I wasn’t overly enthusiastic about drawing peg 51, halfway
down the arm, as it can be a bit hit or miss in the winter and last week it didn’t
fish well.
On the all-in I started on the straight lead and bread
around various areas of the swim, but never had a bite in the first 30mins. Rob
McCann to my right had 1, as did Adrian Drew on p49.
10mins after switching to the pole at 13m where I had fed
bubblegum micros with some corn, pinging 4mm bubblegum pellet over top, with
corn on the hook I caught my first fish. It was slow going but at least I was
catching and by the halfway point I was up to 10 fish.
Adrian was slightly ahead of me, whilst Dave Brittan and
Michael ‘Ginge’ Hall on p54 & p55 had both been catching quite well.
The next 90mins was very slow, as I only managed a couple of
carp on the lead & bread. I had started feeding meat at 2+2 and micros and
maggot just off the margins, but I had no bites until the last hour when I had
8 carp from the short meat line.
At the weigh in I beat Adrian and Rob, whilst I couldn’t beat
Dave and Ginge as they took advantage of a ball of fish in the corner.
Despite the freezing weather, the fishing overall was pretty
good.
1.
143- 0 –
Tim Hadland – p48
2.
100- 0 –
Michael Hall – p55
3.
91- 0 – Tony Gilbert – p38
4.
87- 0 – Mark Wynne – p46
5.
80- 0 – Dave Brittan – p54
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