Catch - 7 F1s, 2 Carp (5 Skimmers, 4 Roach, 2 Rudd, 1 Gudgeon)e
Weather - Grey & overcast. Northerly breeze.
Match - Winter League - rd 2 (15 fished) - 7th overall, 3rd in section
The 2nd round of the Winter League and after all
the rain yesterday thanks to Storm Claudia I was expecting loads of water to be
to running into the lake from the spillway. Surprisingly, as the lakes are
interconnected, the expected extra (and much needed) water just filled up the
lakes above match lake.
I drew p7 which isn’t the best and honestly thought I would
be up against it as my section included Chris Cameron on p4, plus pegs 2 and
p29.
On the all-in I started on corn boosted with baninion,
tapping in a few baninion 4s and micros a metre off the far bank. After 30mins
I had 2 F1 and no one else had caught in my section yet.
As expected, the match proved to be hard going. I tried
fishing maggot over a 2+2 line fed with BMGX but only caught tiny silvers which
weren’t adding a real weight. I also tried my right margin with corn or pellet
without success, and maggot only produced more small silvers.
Therefore, I spent most of the match trying to catch tight
to the boards (without success) or a metre of the far bank where I had 2 swims,
left (fed with nuggets of Top G and micros) and right (fed with micros and a
few 4s), fishing a 4mm expander.
The left swim was best and it wasn’t until I fed a nugget of
groundbait over the right swim that I caught.
With 90mins remaining I cupped some 4s and micros long to my
right at 16m pinging 4s over the top. This produced 2 more fish late, 1 on corn
and the other on 4mm pellet.
By the weigh in I thought both Tom Driver on p6 and Chris on
p4 had beaten me, and they did as I finished 3rd in section. I think
I was little unlucky as we all had similar number of fish, however I caught
mostly F1s, whilst both Tom and Chris both had carp including 2 better stamp
fish that made the difference.
1. 59-14 – Andy Fry – p16
2.
33- 8 –
Nigel Reeves – p15
3.
30-11 – Simon Duke – p20
4.
30- 7 –
Chris Cameron – p4
5.
29- 4 –
Steve Ford – p11
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