Catch - 43 F1s, 5 Carp, 7 Roach, 5 Perch
Weather - Warm & sunny
Match - Tackle Den (16 fished) - 5th overall, 2nd in section
My first trip back to Tunnel since the over 50s festival in
May and I was looking forward to it, as we were on House Pool which is my
favourite. However, it would be nice to draw away from pegs 8 to 14 and see a
different area of the lake, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when I drew p14.
An open deep-water swim with no island within pole range.
I had wanted to fish caster shallow and ideally needed cover
or a decent ripple on the water, as I have had 90lb shallow here in the past.
Although I found out that maggot was the current bait, and I
did think about buying some from the on-site shop, I decided to stick with my
plan of caster and paste.
On the all-in I started at 1+1 fishing paste (50:50 mix of So
Simple Coco Squid & Crushed Expander) over fishery 4mm pellet. I stayed on
this for 90mins alternating between 2 swims, catching mostly F1s.
I had primed a shallow caster line and when I switched the
response was disappointing. After trying 3 different shallow rigs, I only had 1
F1 and 2 roach and soon binned the line.
Instead, I focused on my margins finding 18ins of water down
the left and right toss potting caster, fishing double caster. I bounced between
the 2 swims, with the left margin being the strongest, before trashing my rig.
Once I sorted a new rig it took 10-15mins to get back in a rhythm, but the right-hand
swim wasn’t quite the same.
I tried introducing a small amount of groundbait to kick
start the right margin which just drove the fish scatty, so I didn’t do that
again.
The left margin was still producing which I kept topped up
with caster. As for the right margin I plumbed up a new shallower spot where I
fed some micros and 4s, fishing paste over the top. I managed to catch a few better
stamp F1s and carp, but generally the fish weren’t feeding confidently.
I must admit I didn’t feel I got it right today and maggot
would have been a better option. In the end I was quite relieved to claim the
section money by default thanks to John coming 2nd overall from p6. As I expected the better weights came from the back of the pool.
1.
114- 1 –
Andy Black – p27
2.
110- 3 –
John Brady – p6
3.
92-11 –
Simon Collins – p25
4.
87- 0 – Ian MacDonald – p29
5.
75- 9 – Ken Rayner – p14
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