Weight - 31lb 7oz
Catch - 11 Carp, 10 F1, 2 Skimmers
Weather - Bright & sunny, breezy and cooler later
Match - Open (16 fished) - 7th overall, 3rd in section
With the 2nd round of the Summer League coming up
next week and having not fished the Match Lake for 5 weeks I needed to get back
in tune.
I was happy to draw p12, as I have done well off it in the
past, however with 16 anglers’ booked on I knew it was likely to be tricky.
I started just off the boards fishing paste, feeding a few
micros, hoping for an early carp, however it took 25mins before I did net a
carp, but it was only a 1.5lb. A couple more carp and F1s followed but nothing
of any size.
An early look over my short meat line, but never had a bite,
so switched back to the paste line for a couple more fish, which eventually
died.
I was hoping the far line where the bank had collapsed would
be my banker, although the right side was a little deeper than I remember it
being from last year at 2ft deep. I cupped in some meat and micros, and soon
caught an F1, but liners and foul hookers were a problem, so I switched to
fishing paste. This was much better, although I wasn’t catching as quickly as
expected and I was still only catching a small stamp of fish.
As the left side of the collapsed bank was shallower, I fished
meat. I tried varying my feed switching from micros to groundbait, but the fish
just wouldn’t come in, in any numbers.
My short meat line produced 1 decent F1 and my margins
proved to be fruitless. It was all a little frustrating and on the all-out I
felt I had more questions than answers.
In hindsight, I tried to push the peg too hard as I felt I
needed to catch some better stamp fish, when all I needed to do was to keep
catching, regardless of the stamp of fish and potentially frame. Fortunately,
and more by luck than judgement I managed to pick up the section money by
double de-fault.
1. 56- 9 – Chris Cameron – p11
2.
51- 5 –
Steve Partington – p25
3.
39-12 – Andy Pollard – p6
4.
36-11 – Chris Fox – p21
5.
33- 4 –
Martin Pettifer – p19
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