Catch - 23 F1, 21 Carp
Weather - Warm & sunny
Match - Summer Series (rd 6) - 3rd in section, 3rd overall
The final round of the Summer Series and there was an
outside chance of claiming 3rd, but I needed to win my section and
for Gary Townsend to come no higher than 3rd in section.
Whilst setting up I took the water temperature, which was
18c and nearly 3c less than Thursday and being the shallowest peg on the lake
at no more than 27ins I was a little concerned about catching. As a result, I set
up a 2nd pellet rig with a lighter 0.12 bottom to an 18 B911 to hair
rig a 4mm pellet to hopefully improve my chances of catching in the early part
of the match.
On the all-in I fed baninion 4mm & micros by the island
and started down my left by a clump of sedges catching a small carp straight away
on a 6mm baninion pellet. Bizarrely this was my only fish here all match.
Fishing kriller paste by the island produced a couple of F1s,
before catching a couple more F1s down my right margin on 6mm pellet over 4mm baninion
pellet.
With an hour gone I was up to 6 fish but felt it was too
early to push my margins, so switched to my lighter pellet rig, bouncing between
2 swims just off the island, I had about 40-45lb of F1s and small carp over the
next 2.5hrs all on 4mm pellet, before both swims slowed up.
Moving into the 2nd half of the match I was conscious
that I needed some of the better stamp carp and tried my margins again on
pellet. Surprisingly, I caught very little and tried forcing the swims by
feeding more heavily with micros but had very few signs of fish moving in.
In the end I started catching well on paste at 2+2, plus a
few extra fish by the pallet of p23 feeding lightly with micros and a few 4s.
By the end of the match I felt I had fished a good match and
was pleased with my effort, however I was a little concerned that I had too many
F1s (which are resident at this end of the lake) and not enough better stamp
carp, that might cost me and it did.
In the end I finished 3rd in section finishing the
league in 6th. Well done to Andy, Steve and Gary for framing.
1. 147- 7 – Andy Pollard – p18
2.
117- 6 –
Andy Jane – p20
3.
98- 8 – Ken Rayner – p24
4.
93- 6 – Elvis – p3
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