Weight - 75lb 6oz (4lb 7oz - silvers)
Catch - 34 F1s, 3 Carp, 11 Roach, 8 Ide, 1 Perch
Weather - Cold & cloudy, with an easterly breeze
Match - Tackle Den (20 fished) - 2nd overall
Last weekend, I was away up north visiting the in-laws so no
fishing. Therefore, I was looking forward to today’s match as you usually get a
few bites, although the cold easterly stream of weather continued.
When I drew p52 on Canal 1, my enthusiasm for the day just
drained away as it’s normally a really poor draw and no one had any words of
comfort. I did set up a light bomb rod to cast down towards the end bank, but fortunately,
it wasn’t required.
As I expected to struggle for bites, I set up a light maggot
rig (Steve Mustiano maggot 0.2g) with 0.09 bottom and a size 20 hook to fish
down the track.
After feeding some maggot and fishery micros at 13m at an
angle to my left, I tried dobbin bread along the far bank. I soon got bored of
that and went over my 13m line tapping in maggot and a few micros.
To be honest the next 90mins was brilliant. After the first
2 put ins which produced 2 roach, I started catching small F1s (12oz) before
the bigger F1s (3lb) turned up and I probably put 33-35lb in the net.
The rest of the match was a case of rotating around the peg.
I had a little run of fish fishing tight to the far bank, then down by the
pallet of p53 and then at 13m off to my right, before returning to the 13m left
hand swim.
The last 2 hours it felt like it was getting colder, and the
fishing was getting harder. I was also aware that Steve Venn to my left was slowly
catching me up. Fortunately, after a quiet period, I managed to get a little run
of fish over my 13m lines to just stay ahead.
Have to say I was a little surprised to have done so well
from a ‘duff’ peg and it goes to show fish have fins, as the fish seemed to be
spread throughout the canal today.
1. 78-11 – Matt Greaves – p44 (canal 1)
2.
75- 6 –
Ken Rayner – p52 (canal 1)
3.
70- 2 –
Steve Venn – p50 (canal 1)
4.
46-13 – Alistair Tilney – p8 (moorhen)
5.
39- 3 – Ian
Barker – p16 (moorhen)
6.
37- 0 –
John Brady – p12 (moorhen)
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