Travelling With Lewis Jones again today with him driving after I had a few bevey's last night, We did plan to stop off for a breakfast roll at the burger van in Clevedon but were disappointed to find it wasn't their' With food in mind I was starving so it was off to the nearest garage for a sandwich & a costa coffee, I drank the coffee on-route but left me bloody sarnies in his van for the entire day!
A good turn out today with a few coming for a cancelled match elsewhere boosted it up to 24 of us, We had a walk around with match organiser Robb Fogg who was choosing which swims to use, Peg 21 seemed to have a few fish in it judging by the amount of fish slurping along the bridge but I fancied drawing pegs 9 or 10 which have been favourable lately, Into the draw & I found myself on peg 7, Mark Walsh had draw peg 6 & Bobby Gullit had drawn peg 9 for the second time in as many visits so he was going to be beat for a start, I did fancy it for a few of the lakes bigger fish as we had peg 8 empty & with the wind blowing into are bank I could fish to my left with plenty of room
, first up I had a rig to fish across a couple of feet of the bank in around 3ft of water being an 0.2g AS1 on 0.15-0.13 & an 18 808 hook.
Set a rig to fish down towards my side of the pallet just off the bank in 2ft of water, Had a rig to fish in the deepest water at 5mts infront of me being a 4x14 Chanti on 0.15-0.12 & a 16 Wide gape pellet hook, & finally the rig I expected to do the most damage a 0.2g in-line float on 0.17-0.15 & again a size 16 pellet hook, To fish to my left at 10mts around 2mts off the bank where I found a nice flat area about 4ft deep.
I started the match feeding a few hard 4mm pellets onto the 10mt line, fed half a pot of casters down to by the pallet in the shallower water & fed a few 4mms by hand onto the 5mt line, I started the day across towards the far bank with a 4mm expander on the hook feeding just a few hard 4mms & some micros over the top with a cadpot. I had a 4lb fish within seconds but then had signs of fish coming shallower foul hooking the next fish which came off, I cut out feeding the micros just feeding a few 4mms over the top which got me another 2lb fish before I had two hand size carp, Bobby had already netted a few fish off his far line but mark was struggling for the time being, After about 50mins I couldn't get any fish to settle across so it was time to try my 10mt line. Starting with a 6mm expander on the hook I had a fish of 4lb within seconds followed by a 6lb fish 10mins later before things dried up, I re-fed it with another helping of 4mm pellets, re-fed my other lines before dropping back in at 10mts, Again I had a fish straight away so kept topping it up after every fish.
I had a good hour when I must have put 35lb in the net with a couple of fish pushing 7lb, I kept trying my other Lines in between adding another carp from across, but the 10mt line was proving best by far. Although things slowed a little I still added another 25lb or so in the next hour, I had also added a new swim in the deeper water at 10mts in the centre of the lake with corn & did manage a 5lb fish off it. The forecast was for rain & it did arrive for an hour or so but what was noticeable was the wind had changed direction & was now blowing out of my swim, This certainly made a difference as no matter where I tried I just couldn't get a bite" I couldn't believe it as things were going so well' try as I may I just couldn't get anything to work & it turned out in the last two hours I never put a fish in the net which was a bit frustrating as Bob had managed to put some more in his nets when I couldn't & I had him down as the days winner?.
I followed the scales around & the best weight was 87lb from peg 34 before it was Bobs turn, After a few weighs it turned out he had 91lb odd which was enough to take the win on the day so well done mate,
Winner Bobby G.
It was closer than I thought between us though as I finished the day with 82lb so just a few fish in the last two hours would of been nice' but my weight was enough to finish 3rd picking up £50.00. Funny how fish can just disappear with a slight change in the weather but back again tomorrow for the cost cutter match so peg 9 or 10 please".
, first up I had a rig to fish across a couple of feet of the bank in around 3ft of water being an 0.2g AS1 on 0.15-0.13 & an 18 808 hook.
Set a rig to fish down towards my side of the pallet just off the bank in 2ft of water, Had a rig to fish in the deepest water at 5mts infront of me being a 4x14 Chanti on 0.15-0.12 & a 16 Wide gape pellet hook, & finally the rig I expected to do the most damage a 0.2g in-line float on 0.17-0.15 & again a size 16 pellet hook, To fish to my left at 10mts around 2mts off the bank where I found a nice flat area about 4ft deep.
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