It was a lovely day, but once again, the wind affected the fishing, making bait presentation very difficult, oh for the chance to have fished a straight lead......
Peg 4 was my home for the 6 hours, a noted skimmer peg I was told, but then recently, apparently the skimmers have come from the opposite side of the lake. I had two waggler rods with me, one shallow and one full depth, the rule about only one No8 shot on the bottom worked against the waggler today, as a string of 5 or 6 led on the bottom might have slowed the floats pace through the peg to a gentle trot, rather than the rapid gallop. Not a bite on either, although because of the wind and its affect on them, I didn't try them for too long.
4 topkits set up, two paste rigs, one to fish at 13m - which was wildly optimistic, a rare moment of optimism for me, no idea where it came from - and one to fish at 5m. two pellet rigs, one with a band and one without for soft pellet, I didn't have a bite on a hard pellet, so little more to say about that. Trying to fish at 13m was just frustrating and i gave it up as a bad job and concentrated on the 6m line. This would only yield tiny skimmers on soft pellet and at least half a dozen missed bites for every 2oz blade landed.
If it hadn't been for the fact that the section was fishing hard and I had given Steve Evans a lift, I might have had an early end to the day and gone for a beer and watched the Charity Shield game.
In the 4th hour I stretched my legs and had a chat with Paul Faiers, going back to my peg at the start of the 5th hour, I was somewhat shocked to see the float go under and a proper skimmer take the paste hookbait, he was to be a solo act, as I never had another, but I did manage 5 carp in the 5th hour, all on paste at 5m. I was just starting to think that this might be a chance to win the section, with a similar number in the final hour, but that was nearly as bad as the first four, I lost a foul hooker and I also lost a decent fish that was properly hooked, the line snapped, it was all rough and abraded, I can only assume from rubbing on the fish.
So another miserable day, beaten by Steve Tucker for the section, by 19lb, as he had 6 carp and a couple of skimmers for 62lb, whilst my 5 carp, Billy no Mates decent skimmer and his tiny offspring went 43lb, the lost fish and one other might have troubled Steve's weight but not the framers. Still looking on the bright side, it wasn't the lowest weight section as per usual for me, it was the 3rd worst weight section, so going in the right direction.......
Well done to Mike Walker, drew a fancied peg, but held his nerve and had 187lb to win by a comfortable margin. Whilst the weights are better, it does feel like venues are fishing more like the winter, with fish holed up in certain areas and not foraging round the lakes.
Full Result:
- Mike Walker 187-04-0 peg 11
- Nick Chedzoy 146-11-0 peg 10
- Gary O’Shea 133-01-0 peg 31
- Chris Davis 119-11-0 peg 34
- Tony Rixon 114-09-0 peg 12
- Tim Ford 88-03-0 peg 40
Top Silvers:
- Vic Bush 33-05 -0 peg 14
- Mike Nicholls 30-06-0 peg 19
- Leon Hubbard 19-02-0 peg 15
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