I had paired up with Mike Walker to fish this match and
given that Mike has fished the Match lake a few times, he was going to be on
there and myself on Speci lake. We had a
decent drive up and had decided that my drawing arm should be kept well away
from the draw buckets today, so Mike did the honours, giving me peg 9 on Speci
and himself peg 13 (or was it 11, bit of a senior moment here…) on Match.
The latest results and information we had was from the UK
Champs which had been on Wednesday, Mike was definitely at the ‘right’ end of
his section and my draw wasn’t too bad, that’s if the fish hadn’t used their
fins……
Plenty of time to get ready, but I wasn’t tempted to set up
more than I planned, we had discussed a basic plan and decided not to deviate
from this, as in a 5 hour match against some venue experts and top anglers, we
felt our best chance was not having too many options. This for me was a method feeder, a straight
lead, pellet waggler and a rig for 5-7m (wherever the shelf/bottom, plumbed up with a not too steep
slope). The plan was to start on the
method feeder, whilst feeding a bomb/waggler line frequently with 8mm pellets,
the method was fished a little way past this to show any liners, indicating the
fish were over the bomb line.
First chuck in I had a drop back on the method, I missed the
freespool lever and the baitrunner span like a whirling dervish, creating a
huge birds nest of the line, which was never going to be untangled. So I had to
handline it back in, new spool on and reset up, I may have well as not
bothered, there were no further bites forthcoming.
To cut a long and boring story short, I managed one carp, on
the pellet waggler, the only bite I had.
After about 3 ½ hours I deviated from the plan and tried worm on the
pole, hoping to catch anything, just to put another fish in the net. This was
pointless, as I had no indication of any kind on the pole. I wasn’t alone in struggling there were a fair few
who managed less than my one carp, the weights were low, with only a handful of the 50 odd
of anglers on the lake managing to put 5 or 6 fish together.
Meanwhile, whilst I was letting the side down, Mike fished a
tidy match and kept alternating between method and bomb, various baits and put
together a section winning 59lb. It was
very disappointing to do so poorly, bu I really have no idea what I could have done differently, apart from stick to one method the whole match, the lake fished so badly, I have was a loss to know what I could have done to get more than the one bite.
I didn’t get the results, but they should be on the Larford
website in the next couple of days.
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