With the bright sun due to be gracing us with it's presence all day, the low numbers bank, especially peg1 would give some problem seeing the float, the compensation being a higher temperature to sit in. Into the tub and out comes peg 3, I can't say I was dancing a jig to it, I had Nick Merry on peg 1 for company and could see Lady GaGa on peg 24 and Alan Oram on 22. With Mike Duckett drawing 11, Rod 9 and Ken Rayner on 19, it was going to be a tough ask to beat them.
The lake is still quite clear, but as the temperature hasn't been too low yet this winter, I did think that there would be a few fish to be caught. A NG Gimp to fish full depth, a float whose name i habe no idea of, but similar to a MW slim, to fish at the bottom of the second shelf off the island and a rig with a small diamond float to fish the margins and down to the pallets of pegs 2 & 4 - this didn't produce a single bite, so no more typing wasted on it.
A similar plan to last Sunday, a line fed with micros, a line fed with caster, these at 10 & 2 o'clock, the shelf off the island fed with caster, via the catapult and caster for the margins. Starting over the micros, with double maggot I missed a bite and bumped a fish first two put ins, before catching a couple of small rudd - not a good sign. I always feed a short caster line on this lake, it nearly always produces a couple of decent fish, either big skimmers/bream or tench, a quick look on this line was biteless. The long line over to the island produced a couple of 4oz perch, then a 4oz rudd and a couple of tiny roach.
A swap back to the micros line with a 4mm expander on the hook, saw a little dink of the float and a carp was hooked, I saw it several times, a big ghostie that wouldn't give up and eventually it got it's own way and shed the hook. Next drop in another carp on, this time a foul hooker that shed the hook as it ran off and that was the last sign of a carp in the peg. I could see that a few were stuggling and not too many silvers were coming out, so I stuck at it, eventually getting the roach in on the short line, but on maggot, not caster, which again proved very unproductive.
The expected bonus fish did not show up, either across or short, this saw me end the day with 3 species in the net, roach, rudd and perch, no sign of a skimmer or an F1. Towards the end, Andy Hembrow on 21 started to catch a few decent skimmers, undoubtedly beating my motley collection of small silvers, of which the biggest fish were 4oz specimens of all 3.
With the carp nets redundant, my silvers were weighed quickly in one weigh, going 6.13, as it turned out, enough to pick up second in silvers money, beating lake owner Mike Duckett by 1oz. Ken Rayner made the most of a few fish being on peg 19, to win by a comfortable margin, the weights left everyone scratching their heads a bit, as we all thought it would fish better, just goes to show how little we know about fish and the affect of the enviroment on their feeding habits.
1) Ken Rayner 47.01 peg 19
2) Steve Martin 32.11 peg 17
3) Rod Wotton 29.07 peg 9
4) Mike Duckett 26.12 peg 11
5) Andy Hembrow 22.04 peg 21
6) Jim Jenner 17.12 peg 13
Silvers
1) Andy Hembrow 11.09 peg 21
2) Chris Fox 6.13 peg 3
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