Two days, two lakes, but an open draw each day so could be on the same lake both days. Today saw me on Lodge 70, not a bad draw, Trigger on 69, so no easy pickings on the next peg, not that the standard of entrants gave any easy pickings.
Bit of wind forecast, so I did set up a 3 square cage feeder, as well as a waggler to fish corn. 3 pole rigs, one to fish short(ish) strung out 11's to get a slow fall through the water, a heavier rig with some strung out 8's and a rig with a bulk and single dropper.
The sun was out and the visibility was dreadful, shimmering light, flickering between silver and black, no matter what float colour it was all but impossible to see at times. Before the start Trigger walked down and saw what I had seen, some bubbles and rolling skimmer off to the right, I started here, just dripping a few casters in, but to no avail.
I had odd roach and small hybrids on the long line, but that visibility was proving a tad frustrating. I switched to the feeder and had a couple of skimmers on it, the light improved and I switched back to the pole and had another decent skimmer. The light improved a bit more and I picked up the waggler, had one on corn and then had a bit of a disaster, lost two decent skimmers in two casts, both in the same way, I strike across my body and hit a tree both times with the line getting caught in a branch, allowing the skimmers to make good their escape.
Maybe sticking with the feeder would have been a better idea, but I wasn't convinced ( or was it confident). Anyway, those two skimmers cost me as I ended up second in section to Trig.
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