Pole Only Series 2012 Match Three

My turn to fish Acorn this round, Paddock was fully booked so it was onto the newly redesigned Match Lake, which has had many carp removed and plenty of skimmers added. We pegged it out in the reverse of the old permanent pegs, with A1 being at the top end and A10 was the old peg 2. I drew A7 which actually turned out to be the old peg 7, I would rather have had an end peg, but its a bit of a suck it and see today as the lake hasn't been match fished since the changes.

A nice coating of ice on the car made me glad that I had pinkies in the bait bag, I set up a Malman Winter Wire 4x10 with a .08 hooklength and a 20 gamma black hook. A Carpa Chimp with a 0.12 and a 18 63.13 at the same depth just in case they went mad..... and a rig for up the far shelf completed my rigs, this was a J range dibber with a 0.12 hooklength and a 16 63.13.

I found an area of the peg that was at least 6" deeper than the rest, this was at 9m at 2 o'clock, so this was where I targetted the skimmers, initially feeding some groundbait, micros and pinkies. I found a nice level area on the far shelf and fed this with caster. I didn't have to wait too long before the float dipped and a small carp graced the net, then another - I thought they'd been taken out!!! Next was a skimmer around the 6 -8oz mark and I managed to keep them coming one every 5 - 10 minutes for a couple of hours, by using a pole pot to add micros and pinkies every put in,

The skimmer line then went quiet, so I refed the line with groundbait and had a look up the shelf with double maggot, that produced a small rudd, a 12oz perch and a carp, that was it for up the shelf, every other look over there produced no so much as a twitch of the float. Back over the groundbait and 2 quick skimmers, then back to waiting for a bite, topping up the groundbait, or potting in some micros and maggot seemed to bring a fish or 2, but then the wait after was longer than a steady drip of bait via the topkit pot.

Going into the last hour I expected to put a few more fish in the net, maybe even a bonus from ther far shelf, it proved hard going, I didn't have a bite from 15.30 until 16.25, when I had 2 skimmers in 2 put ins just before the all out at 16.30. I could see that Sam Johnson on A10 had a really good last hour from the end margin and that proved to be my downfall, as he beat me for the silvers by 14oz, but it was an enjoyable days fishing, my 4 carp going 4.12 and the silvers 24.08. Dave Wride won the lake by a convincing margin, with 65.06 from end peg A1.

Todays results:

A Section: (Acorn Match Lake)

1) D Wride 65.02 A1
2) G Calvert 30.09 A2

Silvers

1) S Johnson 25.06 A10
2) C Fox 24.08 A7


B Section (Plantation Main Lake 1 - 19)

1) S Carvello 113.04 Peg 12
2) M Broomsgrove 70.11 peg 7

Silvers

1) M Broomsgrove 26.09 peg 7
2) Ken Raynor 18.00 peg 4


C Section (Plantation Main Lake 20-39)

1) R Wootten 81.02 peg 30
2) B Slipper 66.14 peg 27

Silvers

1) P Faiers 28.00 peg 39
2) L Tucker 19.12 peg 33


League Top Six after 3 Matches.

Overall
1) R Wootten 29 pts 214.04
2) D Wride 27pts 198.13
3) M Broomsgrove 25pts 154.11
4) B Slipper 23pts 138.05
5) R Lovering 22pts 186.11
6) K Rayner 21pts 147.10

Silvers
1) M Broomsgrove 30pts 61.08
2) P Faiers 29pts 77.13
3) G Calvert 25pts 65.01
4) D Wride 23pts 54.08
5) A Hockin 23pts 39.12
6) K Rayner 21pts 34.05