An Avon Angling open on Campbell and Cary was this Sundays choice, my drawing arm once again proving to be spectacularly reliable, another unfancied peg...... 132. The fish have been showing around the middle of the lake and apart from one match, it hasn't got any recent form for silvers. For company on 130 I had Tony Rixon, he was fortunate in having no one opposite him, with 111,112 and 113 empty.
I set up a couple of rigs to fish soft pellet/caster, another for banded pellet at 14m and a margin rig, a waggler rod completed the set up. I fed some micros at 7m and hard pellet at 14m, starting on the waggler to the end bank, a couple of bites, but possibly liners as nothing from them. Roland Lucas was on 110 and was catching to his end bank, it often seems that either 110 or 132 catch from the end, not too often both do.
A switch to fishing the waggler with a banded 8mm pellet straight in front brought a couple of fish, then a lull, so a look over the 7m line, hoping for skimmers and a few intrusive carp. All this line produced was blade skimmers to soft pellet, nothing to banded pellet and tiny roach to caster or 6mm meat. The same for the margin, at every attempt so no more mention of them.
Back to the waggler and I had a little spell where I had seven fish in an hour, so was hoping to put together a decent weight, but then the fish disappeared, for 21/2 hours I didn't even have a liner, with 3/4 of an hour to go, they came back and I added another 6 fish in that time for a total of 14 carp which went 89lb odd, what a costly 21/2 hour blank spell, as during this time Tony kept the fish coming, fishing out to the aerator and put 133lb on the scales, battering me good and proper.
See Tony's blog for the results.
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