I finished up with 27 silvers and around 8 carp of various sizes.ĭes and Zoe arrived with the scales and it had been relatively hard going, Matt S on 22 DNW’d, peg 21 weighed 15lb 10oz, Vince had gone, Brian Slipper on 16 weighed 44lb 15oz and then it was Tom, his carp went 18lb 12oz and then his silvers weighed 17lb 8oz. In the last hour I was back fishing short and added a skimmer, a little tench plus the inevitable carp while Tom had another big perch and two nice tench and on the whistle, it was too close to call although both of us were adamant the other had just nicked it. Not long after I was into another fish that I hoped was a tench but turned out to be a carp hooked in the wing and it came off at the net. I did hook a decent fish on the 11.5 metre line that was fighting a bit tench like and a cracking 3lb plus tinca came to the top which I thought edged me back ahead of my neighbour. With about two hours to go, Vince Brown who was on peg 19, packed up and conceded his pound to Tom. Despite his protestations, I knew there wasn’t much between us and if anything by my reckoning, he was just ahead. Rotating round my lines was working nicely, the short line resulted in a 1.5lb skimmer but I was also misled a few times when I was sure I’d hooked a tench or a perch but they turned into small carp.Īlthough Tom wasn’t catching loads of fish, they were of a decent stamp and he landed several big perch. Back to 11.5 metres, I had five or six little 6-8oz tench in quick succession on a maggot tipped with a disco pinkie, then went back long for a roach (and two lost carp). ![]() Pete was catching some nice carp while I was still having more come off than I was landing. ![]() I dropped the rig in the side while I put some maggots in the toss pot and then as I went to ship out, there was a fish on and I landed another 12oz perch, much to Tom’s disgust! A small 6oz tench followed but I was waiting a fair while for bites so went back to 13 metres and had a nice skimmer but the wind was beginning to make it hard work holding the pole. With bites dwindling I had my first look on the left hand 11.5 metre line and had a nice roach first chuck. Tom landed a big perch while I had a smaller sample of 12oz and a little tench. Tom had a slow start and it looked like it was a struggle for the anglers to his left as well, I could see Nick catching silvers and Paul Fairs on peg 5 was netting a few fish. I had a couple of lovely roach but foulhooked carp were already a problem and I was hooking and losing quite a few. Thankfully my next fish was a 1.5lb skimmer, followed by a slightly smaller one and I was getting lots of indications with single maggot on the hook and feeding a few on all three lines. I did think it might fish relatively hard today but after ten minutes I hooked a decent carp and landed a 6lb fish, then I lost two foulhookers in quick succession and was hoping that wasn’t going to set the scene for the day. ![]() It was certainly very cold and there was a wicked wind blowing up the lake although myself and Pete Neate on peg 12 weren’t getting it quite as bad as Tom and the rest on our side. On the whistle I fed the 13 metre and short lines with some loose groundbait and a few pinkies while on the 11.5 metre swim I just potted in some maggots. On the side tray I had lots of red and white maggots, disco pinkies plus some Bait-Tech Special G F1 and Dark groundbait. ![]() I set up a Drennan 0.4 gram Carp 1 for top two plus two, a Drennan 0.4 gram Pencil for 11.5 metres to the left plus a 0.3 gram Guru F1 Slim for 13 metres across where it was around four foot and also up to my left on the inside, all three rigs had size 18 SFL-B hooks to 0.11mm.
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