Pole Only Series 2012

Round two of the series today, after a week of chopping up meat I decided on a change and aimed for a pellet attack. Plenty of worm and some caster also in the bag, all left over from Whiteacres. I knew I was in C section, pegs 23 - 39 on Plantation. Peg 32 was my home for the day  - not an ideal draw, but I felt there was enough water to enable a few fish to be caught.

I set up 4 rigs, a shallow rig, as the fish do come up in the water early in the year on this venue, a rig to fish hard pellet on the deck, another to fish Devils Spawn and one for worm and caster. I started at 14m towards the island and foul hooked 5 fish in 5 put ins, so switched to a shallow rig, that produced nothing. Back on the deck and I managed a couple of skimmers and a carp, but the liners and foulers were a problem.

I dumped 2/3 of a large cup of 6 & 8mm pellets in to try and get the fish down, that proved to be a big mistake, the indications stopped - but so did the proper bites! Onto the short caster line and that produced a reasonbabale hybrid, but little else, the water was green and the bright green algae bloom kicked up by a hooked fish was worrying this early in the year.

I ended up going 19m towards the island to get another 3 carp, but finished with a dismal 29lb 10oz, another 6lb would have given me 3 more points, but I would have need another 43lb to get another point, once again I was at the end of the lake with low weights, I didn't help by dumping the bait in, but it would be nice to draw a favoured peg.........

Section Results:
Weights in lbs & oz

A: (Acorn Paddock)
1) Rich Lovering 108.02 peg 5
2) Ken Rayner 73.14 peg 36

Silvers
1) Mark Bromsgrove 16.12 peg 3
2) Kev Perry 14.02 peg 6


B: (Plantation)
1) Rod Wootten 100.10 peg 19
2) Lance Tucker 100.00 peg 8

Silvers
1) Rod Wootten 40.14 peg 19
2) Paul Faiers 33.06 peg 10

C: (Plantation)
1) Rich Heatly 80.08 peg27
2) Lewis walker 74.09 peg 28

Silvers
1) Dave Wride 23.08 peg 25
2) Clenn Calvert 21.09 peg 23


Overall Table After Two Matches:

1) R Lovering 19 points 148.09
2) L Walker 19 points 144.15
3) R Wootten 19 points 133.02
4) D Wride 17 points  133.07
5) K Rayner 17 points 104.01
6) M Bromsgrove 16 points 84.00

Silvers Table After Two Matches:

1) D Wride 20 points 51.09
2) M Bromsgrove 20 points 34.15
3) G Calvert 17 points 41.13
4) P Faiers 15 points 49.13
5) A Hockin 15 points 24.12
6) R Lovering 14 points 20.19