Catch - 16 Carp, 3 Skimmers, 2 F1s, 1 Roach
Weather - Grey, cloudy and cool.
Match - Tackle Den (19 fished) - 5th overall
With 19 anglers fishing today there were 15 on Old Match
Lake and 4 on the island of Willow Lake, so a peg with space was required.
So, I was more than happy to draw p10 that offered an island
at 16m to my right and a long margin down the left-hand end bank.
Have to say I felt sorry for Darren Lawrence who drew peg 22
on Willow where due to low water levels you could see the bottom all the way
across to the island! Fortunately, he was allowed to move to p21 which was
marginally deeper.
Back to my peg the water levels were down 18ins and plumbing
around only revealed 22ins in most areas of the swim, although I found 2 spots
at 4m to my right and 14m to my left where it was 29ins.
I started off down the end bank at 13m, rotating with a swim
16m towards the island, tapping fishery micros fishing corn, both boosted with
Baninion. After 45mins I had 3 carp.
I tried fishing in the deeper area at 14m to my left fishing
maggot or 4mm expander over micros but only caught a couple of small skimmers
and a carp.
As I felt I was going nowhere quickly, I decided to revert
back to fishing down the end bank and towards the island. It was slow going, however
by switching from feeding micros to tapping in 4s and swapping between fishing
a 4mm expander and 4mm hair rigged pellet I started to catch a few fish.
The only problem being it was difficult to get a run of fish
in the shallow water, although my catch rate improved in the 2nd
half of the match.
With an hour remaining the action had slowed so I started
pinging pellet at 16m in open water, where I caught a couple more carp before
finishing over a short line to my right where I caught my biggest carp of 5lb.
Overall, a frustrating day, as I couldn’t keep pace with
Andy opposite on p9 and Steve on p8. However, speaking to Andy revealed their
side of the lake was deeper than my side. Also, they caught on maggot, so I was
left wondering whether I fished the wrong match by focusing on pellet.
1.
69- 2 –
John Brady – p7
2.
63-12 – Andrew Black – p9
3.
49-13 – Alistair Tilney – p18
4.
44- 8 –
Matt Greaves – p23
5.
39- 2 –
Ken Rayner – p10
Steve on p8 should have won but he went over in one of his nets.
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