Catch - 46 Carp
Weather - Cold and cloudy
Match - Open (20 fished) - 2nd overall
Mark Poppleton ran another open and it was a full house with
20 anglers. Like everyone, I wanted to avoid drawing in the 30s and was very
pleased to end up on p54.
On the all-in I started on the lead and bread, as 2 weeks
ago p55 came 2nd catching mostly on the lead. I didn’t have any
bites, but did have some liners and thought the fish may already be over my 13m
pole line which I fed with micros and corn.
Switching to the pole was extremely frustrating as I
struggled to get a proper bite, only landing 1 carp and losing 4. The peg is
one of the deepest on the lake and I just felt the fish were hovering above the
feed. In the meantime, I could see p52 & p53 down the arm of the lake
catching well and Phil Hardwick on p55 had also caught a few long on the deck.
I kept pinging pellet over the 13m line and did try it later in the match but I
still couldn’t catch.
After an hour I only had 1 carp in the net, before switching
to the left-hand bush at 11m, fishing at the bottom of the shelf where I had
been pinging 7mm meat (flavoured in Uzit A-Krill cloud). By toss potting meat
with some bubblegum micros, I had 8 fish very quickly to put me back in the
race.
Over the next 3hrs I added a further 30 fish. Come the last
hour the left-hand swim was slowing up and I felt I needed to have a good last
hour to catch Dan Squires on p52 and Tim Martin on p50.
I started feeding meat at 2+2 and caught a few better stamp
fish. I also dumped a cup of micros and meat down the right margin. Half an
hour later it started clouding up and 5 fish in the last 15mins proved very
handy.
I must admit it was nice to catch a few fish, particularly
after last month’s struggles.
2.
148- 8 –
Ken Rayner – p54
3.
107- 2 –
Tim Martin – p50
4.
96- 8 – Dave Brittian – p60
5.
72-14 –
Sean Taylor – p53
6.
64- 0 – Mark Poppleton – p57
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