Catch - 3 Carp, 1 Perch
Weather - Bright and flat calm
Match - Winter League - rd 1 (18 fished) - 4th in section, 13th overall
The first round of the Winter League and I was expecting 12
anglers, however 6 more had signed on late bringing the total to 18, including
some very good anglers. The league would be based on 3 sections of 6.
The first match was on Doughnut Lake and with 18 anglers I
knew it would fish hard and I just hoped for a draw with some space.
Well not much to write about as it was a really tough match.
I started off just dobbin maggot along the far bank, but only caught 1 perch,
which is never a good sign.
Next was tapping in 4s and a few micros a metre off the
island in 3ft of water, fishing a 4mm expander or maggot, but only hooked and
lost a foul hooker.
Fishing maggot or expander tight to the far bank didn’t
produce either.
A switch to tapping in meat resulted in another lost foul
hooker, before netting my first carp 1hr 35min into the match. I never had
another bite along the far bank despite there being fish showing themselves.
With 90mins remaining, pegs 3, 4 & 8 were still blanking.
I’m not sure why we were struggling, but high pressure and bright, flat
conditions probably weren’t helping.
To make something happen I started pinging pellet slightly
to right without success. Finally, I fed meat at 5m where I caught 2 more carp
in the last hour.
As expected p2 easily won the section, whilst p6 & p8
caught late down their margins fishing towards the empty p7, which meant I
finished a disappointing 4th in section.
1.
104-10 – Chris Cameron – p16
2.
80-11 –
Nigel Reeves – p13
3.
52- 7 – Steve Brown – p19
4.
45- 5 – Tony Picton – p2
5.
40- 0 – Glen Picton – p11
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