Catch - 14 Carp
Weather - Showers to start, dry later. Breezy at times.
Match - Winter League rd1 (15 fished) - 3rd overall, 1st in section
Today was the first round of the Winter League. There were 15
booked on and it will be very competitive with some very good anglers fishing,
spread over 3 sections of 5.
At the draw I was convinced we were starting on Match Lake,
so I was a little surprised when it was announced we were on Doughnut. I was
just thankful I had at least brought 1 bomb rod with me, but I had no live
maggot.
Simon kindly let me have a handful of live maggot and I
started feeding small balls of groundbait (50:50 mix of Top G & Crushed
Expander) with a few baninion micros.
90 minutes into the match I caught a carp, followed by 2
more on the method (groundbait and dead maggot) as the wind was getting a bit
leary.
With 2hrs remaining I was winning the section with 4 carp,
as no one else had caught one so far! However, the fish finally decided to have
a feed and the wind had died down.
Simon started catching over short line with maggot and soon
eroded my lead, going 2 fish ahead of me.
I had a brief look over my short line that I had fed with
groundbait and meat (as it was 6ft deep) but I didn’t have a bite on maggot or
meat. Fortunately, I started to catch properly over my far line continuing to
feed small nuggets of groundbait and a few maggot, fishing double reds.
With 15mins remaining Simon was still 2 fish ahead of me.
Fortunately, I caught 2 more as Simon’s swim had dried up, to claim the section
win.
2.
52- 5 –
Chris Cameron – p9
3.
39-10 – Ken Rayner – p21
4.
34- 7 –
Simon Duke – p20
5.
34- 5 –
Gary Etheridge – p11
2 comments:
A good match in the end Ken, well done
Cheers Simon
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