Catch - 35 Carp, 9 F1s
Weather - Mostly cloudy, occasional shower and blustery at times.
Match - Tackle Den (17 fished) - 1st overall
Today’s match was on the canals, Kingfisher and Moorhen.
Both lakes, along with the Old Match Lake have recently been stocked with the
fish from Heron Lake, which has now been sold.
Plumbing up revealed only 2.5ft of water down the middle and
2ft tight to the far bank.
On the all-in I started on a 4mm expander tapping in fishery
micros & 4s boosted with So Simple Baninion at 14m. I caught small carp immediately,
but felt the micros were bringing in too many small fish.
So, I switched to hair rigging a 4mm pellet over toss potted
4s and the stamp of fish immediately improved, rotating 2 swims at 14m.
After 2hrs I was up to 16 fish and switched to tapping 4s at
16m tight across to keep putting fish in the net. I had a quiet 30min spell
after a fish snagged me in some roots on the far bank.
A brief look over a short maggot line didn’t produce a bite,
and I never tried this line again.
The 14m lines continued to produce, but it wasn’t until I
went to 14.5m over 2 swims that my catch rate increased, still tapping in 4s. I
occasionally tried the 16m swim where I tried pinging pellet, but that resulted
in too many liners so I stuck with tapping in pellet, but could only catch 2 or
3 fish before having to rest the swim.
Late on I also caught down the bottom of the left-hand
margin, again on pellet.
In the end a lovely day’s fishing.
1. 84-14 – Ken Rayner – p45 (kingfisher)
2.
76- 4 –
Matt Greaves – p28 (moorhen)
3.
61- 1 –
Steve Venn – p48 (kingfisher)
4.
58-14 – Steve Broadhurst – p49 (kingfisher)
5.
52-10 – Luke Sherman – p31 (moorhen)
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