Catch - 18 Carp
Weather - Warm, sunny and muggy
Match - Tackle Den (12 fished) - 1st on lake, 2nd overall
We only 12 fishing today as 6 dropped out during the week,
which was a shame. At least we had plenty of room, with 6 on Cottage and 6 on
Sellwood and everyone had an island chuck.
On the all-in I started on the method loaded with kriller micros
and cocosquid groundbait, with a 6mm pink gofter, cast tight to the island.
Within 2mins the tip rapped round and a 6lber was safely netted.
It took another 40mins before I caught my next carp, again
on the method. As I couldn’t get another bite, I tried fishing cocosquid paste
at 12m just feeding a few 4mm baninion pellet in with the paste and caught 2
carp quite quickly. I did try fishing worm over the top without success.
By the halfway stage of the 6hr match I was up to 6 fish and
winning the lake, closely followed by Vince Grillo who was foul hooking most of
his fish.
I had also been pinging 6s to the island and caught 1 carp
on the straight lead and 6mm expander, but I spent most of the 2nd half
of the match fishing either at 12m or down my right margin.
Over the 12m line I switched to catapulting 2 half pouches
of 4s every 5mins to spread the feed around a little, whilst I fished the margin.
This worked well as I caught fish up to 10lb.
As for the margins I didn’t bother with the left side as
Simon was too close on the next peg, so I concentrated on the right. When I
plumbed up, I was a little surprised to find it was only very slightly
shallower than at 12m. Therefore, I decided to feed 8mm meat covered in So
Simple Sludge, initially with some micros to kick start the swim.
When I switched to fishing the margins with 2.5hrs remaining
I cut out the micros and just fed a few bits of meat, fishing double 8mm meat.
This worked well as I only foul hooked 1 fish and lost another in a snag but I managed
to catch 7 carp up to 13lb.
I also had another couple of fish at 12m and by the all-out
knew I had won the lake.
2.
112-15 – Ken Rayner – p3 Cottage
3.
112-11 – Andy Burns – p1 Selwood
4.
103-14 – Bobby Moore – p9 Selwood
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