17 of us on the main lake today, drawn in order of booking on, with me coming out of the hat last or last but one, once all the fancied pegs had gone, peg 9 for me, not a peg I have seen produce much in my previous visits, apparently yesterday it had 1" thick ice on it and today had a lovely NW wind blowing straight into it - I wasn't confident.....
I set up a straight lead and a cage feeder, left the waggler rod in the bag as getting ant feed out would be nigh on impossible with the head on wind. I did set a rig for down the LG and RH edges (same depth) but I never got used, I set up 2 rigs for 14m, a .4 and a .5 bodied float with a wire stem, one with a 20 and 0.10 fluorocarbon, the other with 0.12FC and a 18, in case it got good.....
I had a chuck round with the lead, no signs, I had the feeling there weren't going to many, if any carp in the coldest peg on the lake, so concentrated on silvers, feeding GB with squatt and pinkies in on one line, micros and maggots on the other, but very negatively.
It was a slow and steady match, I was catching small roach over the squatt and pinkie, but at least it was bites in the cold wind (and rain!) at 12 0'clock I had two skimmers in two put in's, then back to roach, bit odd. I had one more decent skimmer about 12.30 and that was it, back to the tiny roach again. The micro line was pretty much dead until the last 40 minutes when I had a small hybrid and then a tench, that gave me 9.06, I was sure walking back past peg 8 weighing in that I heard 11lb something and Dom weighed 15lb odd, so into the van and off home, then it transpires I was second in the silvers, so a second pick up of the weekend, but well away from the carp today.....
1st p13a John Page 115lb 02oz
2nd p4 Shawn Kittridge 109lb 06oz
3rd p11 Paul Lasson 63lb 14oz
1st silvers- p6 Dom Sullivan 15lb 14oz
2nd silvers- p9 Chris Fox 9lb 06oz
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