Back to Shiplate farm for what seems ages as the matches at the fishery have been popular of late and being as the numbers have been limited I have left it to late to get a space on a couple of occasions, This venue is ideal for me being just a few minutes from my door so was keen to give it a go, I did attempt to get breakfast for myself and titch from Thyer's tackle but it was closed so it ment a day fishing on an empty stomach which wasn't a good start. Their were 14 of us fishing the match and the talk was of the normally productive pegs 1 & 15 being the wanted area but for some reason in 90% of the matches I've fished I always seem to end up on peg 6 or 6a", Hoping for a peg on the far bank somewhere I was a bit disappointed to end up on the near bank peg 7 towards the end off the lake (Not Far From My Normal Haunt Then!) but fish have fins so we would see.
A positive approach was in order as I know from experience the lakes head of skimmers are difficult to catch here although there is a chance of a big bream on the long pole so set up 4x14 wire wonder on 0.13-0.09 and an 18 PR434 to fish at 12 & 14mts in 5ft of water with casters and Ground-bait. A rig to fish at 13mts to fish down along my inside bank being a 4x12 chanti on 0.13-0.11 and again a PR434 18 hook, I decided to fish away from the bank at the bottom of the shelf where it was again 5ft or so, Last of all I set up a bomb to start the match on over to the island at around 20yrds.
At the all in In I cupped four balls of ground-bait containing casters and dead red maggot on the 14mt swim and a whole pot full of casters onto the 12mt swim, quite a positive approach but if any large bream were to show I wanted them to stop in the peg for a while, Starting on double hair rigged corn tight to the island I had a liner first cast but nothing developed so after 30mins I had a swap around between baits but couldn't get any indications or liners despite casting around the swim and trying shorter. On the hour mark I noticed some bubbles coming up where I had cupped in the load of caster on the pole line so was soon shipping out 3 dead red maggots on the hook, after a minute or so the float slid under and I missed it" but the next cast I was towing the rig through slightly when it went again and this time I was connected to what I thought to be a big skimmer but turned out to a hungry perch of 12oz! from that point on I never had a single bubble or bite on this line for the rest of the day which really surprized me?.
For the next couple of hours I started a new line off to my left at 14mts with micro pellets where I fished 4mm expanders over the top and swapped between 2 lines with different baits but all I had to show for it was a 1lb skimmer off each and a couple of blips. I had tried the bomb and corn again across to the island but the only bite I had all day came when I got up for a pee" Luckily I had finished in time and lunged for the rod missing the bite but managing to wrap the line around the over hanging willow branch! After a bit of forceful tugging thankfully it came free".
I had been pinging 6mm hard pellet in small amounts down the inside long line all day and felt with 2hours to go I had to have a look, so with a small cad pot attached I started on a single grain of corn feeding a few grains and a small nugget of ground-bait tight over the float, With 90mins to go I had my first carp of 5lb but it caused a bit of disturbance so tried the bomb line and pole swims again without success so spent the last 30mins down the edge. With 10mins to go I had an un-missible bite and after a battle netted a common of 13lb, I had seconds of the match left when I managed to get the rig back in place and after a few twitches and signs of another fish in the area the all out was called (Typical). A bit disappointed not to have caught earlier here but with the weather being bright all day I didn't really expect to. Overall it showed the affect the rain had taken as the weights were down and as I expected the top weights were off the far bank with Andy France on fancied end peg 15 was first on the day with 57lb catching 9 carp on the bomb and banded 8 or 11mm hard pellet over towards the lawn.
Most venues seem to be slowing down a bit now so judging where and what to feed will be very important.
Full Results -
1st Andy France (Cadbury Angling) peg 15, 57lb 6oz.
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