23 booked in for this one, with a fair few either having a last attempt to qualify for the silvers final next week or practising for it, I decided that it would be a carp only day. Campbell had two sections with one section on Cary, into the coffee tin and out comes 111. Before the draw, Paul Greenwood said too many people are now going over the 70lb net limit, so they are considering bringing the 90lb disqualification weight down to 80lb - that could be costly.
Quite simple today on the bait tray, 4, 6 & 8mm pellets and 8mm meat. Pole rigs were a shallow rig, a couple of full depth rigs, one with a bulk, one with shot strung out and a meat rig. I also set up a full depth waggler and a lead rod. I fed 3 lines at the start, a short line (5m) for meat, 11m & 16m with pellet. the first 40 minutes were spent on the 16m line, with a look over the 11m line, to no avail, not even a bite. Campbell is not a lake you want to get too far behind, so a switch to the waggler brought 3 quick fish, then the line died. Several anglers had taken fish on the lead, so I tried that, waste of time, so up the bank it went.
Back on the waggler I hooked a fish and it went straight through the aerator, snagging up. By now there were signs of fish up in the water, so I grabbed the made up shallow waggler from the bag, all this seemed to do was push the fish across towards pegs 129 & 130, both of which had anglers fishing short for silvers.
The rest of the match panned out in a similar vein, take two fish and then have to swap lines and wait to get another. I ended up swapping between the waggler, the 16m pole line and the short meat line - which only produced a couple of fish. The fish that moved into the space created by the silvers anglers on the opposite bank stayed put and wouldn't come back over.
I'm not sure what I could have done to make the fish settle on on line, I don't think more feed was the answer, so possible it might have paid to feed Mike Nicholls style, but I just cant do it.....
My one skimmer probably weighed an ounce, but it went straight back, the carp went 88.11 and I knew that would be well short of what was needed.
Qualifying for next years all winners final, for the second time, was Lewis Greenwood-King, with 176.06, caught on a mixture of pole, waggler and lead chucking. Lee Werrit qualified for next weeks Silvers final with 41.11 of skimmers.
1) Lewis Greenwood-King 176.06 peg 132
2) Dick Bull 136.01 peg 78
3) Keith Masheder 131.04 peg 119
4) Roland ? 128.06 peg 131
5) Martin Preston 120.06 peg 114
6) P Cardwell 119.10 peg 128
Silvers
1) Lee Werrit 41.11 peg 118
2) D Squiggly unreadable surname 39.09 peg 130
3) Tim Pallant 36.10 peg 74
4) Charlie Barnes 33.14 peg 129
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