The pegs were spread out along the bottom bank, the far bank , the top bank and one peg on the near bank, the far bank would have been my choice, given that the wind was pretty much off your back there. I didn't fancy the top bank, as it hasn't produced many fish this winter when I've been to the venue.
Sad to hear that John lost his black GSD, Max, last weekend, he was a real character.
After a cup of Misha's coffee, which I needed this morning, after a few beers last night, it was draw time and the tickets were thrown up in the air to collect from the ground, my heart sank when I opened mine, 17 on the top bank, with the wind from right to left, two pegs I didn't fancy and this was one (Adie Baker DNW from the other I didn't fancy, 21).
I set up three pole rigs, one margin rig, which on my looks in the margin remained motionless and a couple of rigs to fish either maggot or soft pellet/corn. This was to be at 14m, over micros, which will usually produce a carp or two, but I had three bites on the pole, all on maggot, two micro roach, which fell off shipping in and one 2 ouncer, which just managed to pull out 3" of white hydro.
It was obviously fishing hard and I had set a waggler to fish caster out as far as I dare push the boundary of my peg, this was producing roach, but they were small, more like pinkie fish. As I couldn't see anyone fishing for silvers I stuck at it and at least it kept me warm. Biggest fish I had was about 4oz, the rest were an ounce or less.
Every 3/4 of an hour, I looked back over the micros and topped it up with another 15 or 20, all to no avail, as I didn't get as much as a liner on expander or corn.
I did think I might sneak the silvers, I saw Kev Perry land a couple of skimmers towards the end, so it would be close, until I saw his silvers net contained a large F1, large enough to ensure I went home without a pick up. Surely they should count as carp, it is after all, a carp....... Not that I'm bitter about it!!
Brian Slipper won, with carp caught on bread/lead and expander on the pole. Most of the carp seemed to come to bread on the lead.
1st Brian Slipper 55lb 4oz Peg 12
2nd Rich Heatley 39lb Peg 24
3rd Kev Perry 24lb 3oz Peg 12
4th Ivan Currie 14lb 5oz Peg 14
5th Barry Fowler 8lb 6oz Peg 8
6th Chris Fox 4lb 9oz Peg 17
Silvers
1st Kev Perry 7lb 14oz
2nd Chris Fox 4lb 9oz
2 comments:
We were on Wildmarsh yesterday. Nobody had a carp and even silvers were hard to come by. Just over 9lbs won it. In hindsight maybe bread would have worked.
Chris, I ageee, a carp is a carp, I thought you won the silvers hence sticking it out on the bread.
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