Catch - 39 F1, 20 Carp, 1 Skimmer
Weather - Cloudy & breezy
Match - Open (73 fished) - 31st overall, 3rd on lake
Today was the practice open for the Over 50s festival that
Matt Greaves and I signed up for another go.
Last year was all around caster shallow, meat and paste (for
those few that fish it). However, this year has been much cooler leading up to
the festival, so Matt and I weren’t sure how much of the caster we had to
pre-order we would use, plus we had to make a late order for maggot.
Surprisingly I spent the first 90mins fishing between the 2
lines, putting 20lb in the net.
As the swim faded, I tried both my margins fishing maggot,
but couldn’t get a bite, so I then switched to fishing 16m to the island. It
was a slow start, which meant I had a poor 30/45mins after switching from my
pellet swim.
Fortunately, by tosspotting stodgy balls of So Simple
Cocosquid groundbait mixed with chopped worm, micros and caster, I started to
catch on worm, including some better stamp F1s and carp. I ended up staying on
this for 2hrs hour and other than Aiden Mansfield on p9 I couldn’t see much
else being caught.
In the last hour, I had hoped to finish in my margins,
feeding maggot down the left and pellet down the right. Well, the maggot swim
was disappointing, and I soon switched to feeding my stodgy groundbait fishing
worm over the top. I kept feeding pellet down the right margin picking up the
odd better stamp F1.
At the weigh in I thought I had won my section, before
realising my section didn’t include the 2 end pegs, but the pegs on the
opposite side of the lake and the section was won from p23 with 70lb.
2. 138- 4 Dan
Lee - p16 Top
3. 134- 1 Dave
Scott - p11 Top
4. 130- 3 Jack
Arblaster - p31 New
5. 128-12 Tom Need - p13 Top
6. 115- 6 Jamie
Adcock - p9 Canal
Extension
1. 101-13 Aiden Mansfield - p9
2. 70-13 Darren
Parrish - p23
3. 66-15 Ken
Rayner - p3
4. 66- 0 Steve Page - p19
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