As much as I enjoy fishing Viaduct, it’s nice to have some
variety, so I booked into this week’s costcutter at Avalon. I was quite intent on just taking 6 & 8mm
pellets and a bag of paste, but a conversation with owner Vic Bush saw me
putting so GB and a kilo of worms (that have been in the fridge since March,
surely they won’t last much longer) into the bait bag.
Travelling down with Tony Rixon, we had the usual Shipham brekkie and then
drew next to each other, me on peg 5 and Tony on 3. He badgered me into a £1 side bet, which I
don’t usually indulge in, it was because he knew I had the worms and would be
tempted to use them……….
A short walk and plenty of time, so I set up a pellet
waggler, a depth waggler and a lead rod.
Three topkits as well, a rig to fish banded pellet, one for paste and
one for down the edge. Bait tray just
had 6 & 8mm pellets initially and I started on the pellet waggler. This was producing bites and fish, not big
fish, several carp to 3lb and a couple of hybrids which were just over
1lb. The fish were tight to the rushes
and backing off into the gap under a tree, after the first hour which saw 20lb
in the net, the wind made the waggler fishing fairly pointless, it kept
switching directiom fron R-L and then back to L-R. It wasn’t even a consistent breeze up the
lake, just a wind lane which was less than 2m wide and this was catching the
line and pulling the float along within seconds of it landing.
I did try the lead, but 10 minutes of watching a motionless
tip was enough, so I had a look over the feed I’d put in on the pole line,
nothing, not that I was surprised, as I
hadn’t seen any blowing or other signs of fish.
Time to mix the GB and try the worms, this was fairly uneventful, then
Vic turned up and encouraged me to up the feed, this brought a 6oz rudd to the
worm bait, this remained the only fish caught on this bait.
Dropping paste over the worm/GB feed, saw a carp netted, a
carp lost then three skimmers of a decent size landed, before the line
quietened down again. I refed and had another look on the waggler, this brought
another odd fish or two, but the wind remained a constant frustration to
presenting a bait that wasn’t trotting along and away from the rushes.
Back on the paste and another fish netted, but it was slow
going and at the all-out, I knew my messing about with worms had cost me £1 to
Mr Rixon. Vic jumped on my box and had a
go with the paste, landing a 13lb fish shortly afterwards……. How do they know the match has finished??
So, with hindsight, 6 hours thrashing the reeds with a
waggler would probably have been the best thing to do, also a lesson learnt
about feeding at Avalon – they want some, no place for gentle drip feeding
here!! Frustrating but enjoyable day,
hopefully I can get back here before too long, my fish went 64.15 and that 13lb
carp that Vic had after the whistle on my gear would have seen my £1 safe if it
had found the paste 10 minutes earlier……..
1: Glenn Bailey 108lb peg 16
2: Mike West 99.13 peg 1
3: Tony Rixon 72.07 peg 3
4: Paul Lock 67.02
5: Chris Fox 64.15 peg 5
Silvers
1: Mike Nicholls 37.10 peg 23
2: Paul Lock 35.01
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