Catch - 11 Carp, 4 F1, 8 Skimmers
Weather - Hot & sunny
Match - Open (17 fished) - 4th overall, 1st in section
Having just returned from 4 nights away in Pembrokeshire with
Poppy (the Staffy) loving running around the various beaches we visited, I
still had a few days remaining of my holiday and decided to book into todays
affordable open as a practice for the forthcoming Pole Masters.
I drew peg 5 again and to be honest I wasn’t that excited
about it as I felt you needed some shallow water to fish into on what turned
out to be the hottest day of the year.
I was drawn next to Luke Seabrook on peg 6 and knew he would
fish pellet up and down against the boards on the island. I decided to take a
contrary approach, focusing on paste and meat, so it would be a useful benchmark
to see the best approach.
On the all-in I started straight across on paste, feeding a
few 2mm p-nut pellet and on the 2nd put-in caught a 5lber. After an
hour I had another 2 and 15lb in the net for a very useful start. As very
little was being caught around the lake I
was happy to stick with the paste, but after that first hour I wasnt getting any indications.
A switch to fishing 4mm expander over crushed expander a
metre off the far bank resulted in a couple of small skimmers, plus a couple
more smaller carp.
The 2nd half of the match was a case of rotating
swims to keep putting fish in the net, catching a few F1s and carp from the
left margin on meat and a couple more carp on paste from the far bank. The shallower
right margin was a waste of time, catching only 2 skimmers and it was full of
small silvers gorging themselves on spawn.
In the last half an hour I struggled to catch, whilst Luke did
and to be honest, I thought he had beaten me, however my good start proved
decisive.
2.
51-10 – Tony Rixon – p9
3.
50- 2 –
Jerry Wiggett – p15
4.
45-12 – Ken Rayner – p5
5.
43- 7 –
Steve Rich – p23
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