Catch - 19 Carp, 2 F1, 2 Skimmers, 1 Hybrid
Weather - Sunny, light cloud later
Match - Open (17 fished) - 5th overall, 4th on lake
With limited match availability, I decided to stay local
fishing Ivy House, which had an open on over Kingfisher and Moorhen.
I wasn’t too concerned where I drew as it wasn’t blowing a
gale or raining. In fact, it was a very pleasant day, so much so I decided to
bring a couple of paste rigs.
The weather was obviously making me feel positive and I hoped
the fish would take a bit of feed as I didn’t fancy a day of dobbin. On the
all-in I started across, however as the far bank is deep at nearly 4ft I know
from past experience the fish can be really difficult to catch and dobbin can
be hit and miss.
Therefore, I decided to start on a small piece of paste (So
Simple Top G : Crushed Expander), just to provide a target bait and caught 2
carp in the first 15mins. It became tricky after this and I could see Rob Guppy
on p45 catching on dobbed maggot. As I didn’t have any maggot, I tried dobbin
corn skins without success, although I tried later in the match for 1 carp and
lost a 2nd as it got tangled in a large sunken branch.
After an hour I was up to 5 carp and needed to rest the far
bank and started tapping in 4mm pellet (boosted with Baninion), fishing a hair
rigged 4mm pellet, switching later to a 6mm. I had to keep swapping between
this swim and the far bank to keep the fish coming, but at least I had a few
bites.
I had also fed a short line, more in hope than expectation
and didn’t have a bite.
By the all-out, I knew Rob had beaten me and I was fairly
sure I had beaten everyone else I could see, however pegs 41 & 37 with the
extra space both beat me.
1.
80- 6 – Rob
Guppy – p45 (K)
2.
60- 6 –
Carl Mulford – p41 (K)
3.
45-11 – Lenny – p37 (K)
4.
41-10 – Ray Russell – p34 (M)
5.
37- 9 –
Ken Rayner – p47 (K)
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