It was good to get back to Viaduct, with Campbell and Lodge in, I wanted a draw on Campbell, I got my wish, but it wasn't a peg I would have chosen, 129, apparently Steve Ringer came last in his section in the UK champs from it this week.
I had three baits with me, pellet, 8mm meat and paste. So rigs for all of them set up, a 0.2 MW diamond for pellet at depth, a MW cookie for pellet shallow, both on 0.16 with B960 16 hooks. I managed one decent skimmer on these rigs, so little more to say about them. Two meat rigs, one for 6m looking across to 110 and anther for fishing up to the spit, although there wasn't more than 6" or 8" difference in the depth. These were on 0.20 with TXR7 size 16 hooks on a 6" 0.18 hooklength.
Two waggler rods set up, one shallow and one full depth, as forecast had predicted a breezy day, a lead rod completed the set up. Starting on the waggler and 20 minutes without a bite or any indication that there were any fish in front of me had me switching to the long pole line, where I had fed some 4mm pellet. A 6mm pellet was pecked by nuisance fish, so on went an 8mm. That produced a decent skimmer, but nothing else, there was no fizzing, no swirls, nothing to indicate that the peg held any decent fish.
An earlier than planned switch to the spit with meat produced an instant response and a 2lb+ Perch fell to the meat. Sticking at it and several small Carp came to the net, some smaller than the Perch. The 6m meat line produced two tiny skimmers, as the float dipped and trembled every put in, as the small fish nibbled at the meat, it was a total waste of time. By 3.30 I had 9 Carp, for a weight I estimated to be less than 30lb, so another look on the waggler. I couldn't get it to hold still, but had a couple of indications, so in desperation, reached for the lead rod, three Carp in the first three chucks which were double the size of my spit caught fish.
That proved to be a false dawn and I went back to the spit and took another small Carp on the meat, before it all seemed to dry up completely, the lead produced one more decent fish before the all out. Not for the first time I was in the worst section, in fact it seems to be once again, the only consistent in my fishing at the moment. With me on 129 weighing 61.9 (55.00 carp and 6.11 of silvers), 130 DNW, 131 DNW and 132 weighing 44.15. I'm really not sure what more I could have done, as I had no liners when I did try the paste (nor bites), no liners on the lead and no foulers or liners on the waggler. The section was won by Phil Cardwell on 128 the other side of the spit, with 83.02, I have no idea how I could have got another 23lb from my peg.
It does seem to be a total waste of a day and money at the moment, to keep consistently drawing in an area where there aren't enough fish to be in with a chance of framing, if I'd been battered between the winners, at least I could assess why and address what I'd got wrong. I had a spell like this in the early 90's and it went on for 18 months and saw me walk away from fishing for 15 years, lets hope my drawbag luck changes soon!!
Anton Page should have won, but being 4lb over in one net, saw that one capped at 70lb and being over 90lb in another saw him lose the whole net - ironic really that he had nearly double my weight disqualified!!
1) Tom Mangnall 242.12 peg 126
2) Anton Page 193.02 peg 123
3) Craig Edmunds 162.14 peg 59
4) Tony Rixon 138.06 peg 124
5) Alan Oram 126.07 peg 119
6) Dean Malin 85.10 peg 112
Silvers
1) Sean Towsend 31.15 peg 66
2) Tony Rixon 30.09 peg 124
3) Nigel Bartlett 30.06 peg 118
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