Sunday 26 February 2012

Pole Only Series, Sunday 26th February 2012

The start of the series today, the draw was at Acorn, so over breakfast, Paul and myself finalised a few details and got the draw underway. There was a full house of 30, so the planned 1 x section of 10 on Acorn and 2 x sections of 10 on Plantation.

I got Mike Owens to draw for me, that'll be the last time ever, as he pulled me peg 1 on Plantation, I did fancy Plantation, but not peg 1 after my blank on there a couple of weeks ago. Contrastingly, Nick Harvey managed to be sat on peg 8, for the 3rd time in 4 matches, I know the draw gods have never been particularly kind to me, but I must have really upset them lately!!

I set up 3 rigs, a Sensas Auchy on 0.12 with a 0.10 hooklength and a size 20 hook. A Carpa Chimp on 0.14 to 0.12 and a 18 808 and a MW short diamond for the margins - which did not produce a single bite, so no more about them.

The water didn't have much colour in it and with the overnight frost I was no more confident when I sat looking at the peg, than I was when Mike handed it to me. I felt there was little point in fishing short, so fed a line at 14.5m and also the margin at that distance. I fed a few micros, with caster and dead maggot, it took 15 minutes to get a bite, which was a tiny roach, then a couple of skimmers, so I switched to 4mm Devils Spawn and instead of the expected skimmers, the small roach seemed to take a liking for them. Then a carp muscled in on the act and that was the end of the action, the middle 4 hours of the match saw me land about 8oz of fish.

Last hour and the skimmers turned up, I had a few and 1 more carp, all on the Devils Spawn. In the last 20 minutes I foul hooked 2 carp that were right up in the water, true to the way my day was going, they both shed the hook. So a crappy day and to cap it off, I lost a brand new (first day out) Zippo handwarmer and I was listening to the Cup Final on my walkman, I took the earphones out whilst I called the all out and they dropped through my footplate into the lake and stopped working. A nice expensive day and the result will need to be dropped, so no more room for bad draws or poor angling.

No overall payouts on this series, just top two in the section and top two silvers per section. Weights in Kilos.

A section Acorn:

1) Paul Faiers 19.170 peg 5
2) Rod Wootten 14.730 peg 34

Silvers

1) Paul Faiers 7.450 peg 5
2) Lance Tucker 2.750

B section Plantation

1) Lewis Walker 31.910 peg 7
2) Dave Wride 27.840 peg 12

Silvers

1) Dave Wride 12.740 peg 12
2) Matt Tomes 9.570 peg 4

C section Plantation

1) Mark Bromsgrove 18.880 peg 25
2) Rich Lovering 18.350 peg 31

Silvers

1) Mark Bromsgrove 8.250 peg 25
2) Ken Rayner 6.230 peg 38

And for those who like to see the match result.

1) Lewis Walker 31.910 peg 7P
2) Dave Wride 27.840 peg 12P
3) Nick Harvey 19.460 peg 8P
4) Paul Faiers 19.170 peg 5A
5) Mark Bromsgrove 18.800 peg 25P
6) Mike Owens 18.340 3P

Silvers

1) Dave Wride 12.740 12P
2) Matt Tomes 9.520 4P
3) G Calvert 9.180 10P

Not much point in putting up any league tables until after the next match.

Not sure how much fishing I'll get done in the next couple of weeks as I'm moving house and starting a new job, so plenty to do.

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