Catch - 10 Carp, 3 F1, 1 Skimmer, 1 Roach
Weather - Hot, sunny and breezy
Match - Summer League rd 2 (12 fished) - 7th overall, 4th in section
The 2nd round of the Summer League and we were on
Match Lake. After last weekends 3rd in the open I was confident in
my approach, i.e. meat and paste, with pellet as a backup. I had hoped to fish Thursdays
affordable open, however this was understandably called off due to the intense
hot weather, where the water temperature in the margins reached 31c! Even today
the water temperature was 25.8c increasing to 27c. Due to the increased water
temperatures, the match was reduced from 6 to 5 hours to reduce the stress on
the fish.
On the all-in I started on So Simple Cocosquid paste by the
boards and caught 2 carp after 30mins, but it wasn’t as productive as I had
hoped.
In fact, this was the pattern for my match. I just couldn’t
get anything to really work properly.
I tried fishing a metre off the boards with dead maggot over
a small ball of groundbait and micros, which produced 1 carp and a small
skimmer.
Fishing shallow with pellet didn’t work either, which was
surprising and frustrating.
At the halfway point, I realised I may be on the wrong bait,
as Elvis opposite me on p18 was catching well shallow on maggot and I saw Mark
down on p6 catching on maggot.
During the 2nd half of the match, I decided to
focus on the margins targeting the bigger carp in an attempt to pull back the
deficit. Needless to say it was slow going. Fishing meat only produced 2 fish,
with paste being the most productive down the left margin towards the p11
pallet.
4th in section was not what I needed as Steve
Brown on p2 won the section fishing caster and maggot, and Mark Court was 2nd
in section fishing maggot.
To be honest I didn’t expect maggot and caster to be so
dominant and I have to accept I got it wrong.
1.
91- 0 -
Elvis – p18
2.
80-13 - Steve Brown – p1
3.
71-14 - Mark Court – p6
4.
65-11 - Andy Jane – p8
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