Weight - 190lb 14oz
Catch - 62 Carp, 3 Carassio, 1 Bream
Weather - Cold start, sunny with a cool breeze
Match - Open (26 fished) - 4th overall, 2nd in section
I decided to jump onto this open ably run by Andy Weston to
get back in tune with the venue with the Garbolino qualifier next month. Also c.
5000lb had been removed from the lake and it would be interesting to see how
this had affected the fishing, but I was looking forward to getting a few bites.
With 26 booked in drawing a peg with space would be ideal
and I was pleased to draw p60, as it’s a peg I’ve never drawn and p61 wasn’t
in. The only concern was the wind, which was blowing into the other end of the
lake and later in the match the wind turned quite cold.
As p60 is probably the best feeder peg on the lake, I started
on a small method, loaded with bubblegum micros and a 6mm orange wafter, whilst
I primed by short line with meat.
Dave Brittian to my left on p59 got off to a flyer catching
short on pellet and was 3 or 4 fish ahead of me after 15 minutes. I decided to stick
with the feeder, hoping Dave would slow down and after 2hrs I probably had 80lb
in the net, but I still felt I was behind Dave.
Although I was still catching on the feeder, I was concerned
the average stamp of fish was smaller than those Dave was catching. I had maintained
my feeding over my short line (3+2), but when I switched, I couldn’t catch
nearly as well as expected and ended up fishing shorter at 2+2, but I never
felt I got this right.
Fortunately resting the feeder line had helped as I kept
catching and then started my margins with meat and micros.
In the end I started catching better stamp fish down the
right margin on meat, only switching back to the feeder when I needed to rest
the swim.
The last 45mins slowed down which necessitated a move to
fish longer down the margin, which resulted in a few extra fish, which meant I
managed to overhaul Dave’s early lead.
Come the weigh in I was pleased to finish 4th
overall, picking up the section money. The top 3 all came from the windward end
of the lake. It was also nice to feed some bait, feeding 3 tins of meat and 2pts
of micros.
1.
288- 2 –
Rich Butler – p54
2.
232- 4 –
Fred Roberts – p50
3.
227- 8 –
Rich Yeo – p49
4.
190-14 – Ken Rayner – p60
5.
179-12 – Tim Martin – p55
6.
177- 4 –
Nigel Purchase – p51
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