Been a lean month for fishing, lots of work, I did venture to Larford last week for the Maver Pairs, this resulted in one carp, exactly the same as last year, I shan't be rushing back there.......
On to this match, I was out of it in the league, after a good first round and a section win, it went downhill from there at Landsend, somewhere I just seem to struggle to get any decent results there apart from silvers. So this match was all about being positive and I wasn't too upset when 115 came out of the draw tin.
Plenty of time to get to the peg and tackle up, I have been trying Sensas magic elastic and whilst it is very different to the hollows I have been using and a chance conversation with Steve Tucker led me to have a close look at my kits, after he said he had some break. Both the No12's I had broke very easily, one had an obvious nick in, one had no visual marks or degradation, glad I checked before the match.
I set up two waggler rods, one shallow, one full depth, not much more to say about them, did try them, not a bite on either. 4 topkits set up, a rig for meat short, 0.20 to a 16 Guru Extra Strong spade end hood. A rig to fish banded pellet at 13m, this was on 0.20 to 0.18 and a B960 16 with a band, a paste rig, which was a back up plan and a rig for down the edge, only short margins on this peg, so wasn't sure what, if anything they'd throw up.
Started on the meat short and had a couple of fish in the first 20 minutes, before venturing out to 13m and taking odd fish but nothing hectic. Glen 'two pots' Bailey on 114 was fishing paste and he had a couple of quick fish the it went quiet. Chris Davies on 116 was managing to get some fish shallow and had a run whilst I had a quiet spell, I took the paste rig off and set up a shallow rig, but this only produced one fish. By switching between the 13m pellet line and the short meat line I managed to keep fish coming. With a couple of hours to go I fed the margin and had a look in there every 15 minutes or so, but there were no signs of any feeding fish in the edge.
The meat line kept producing odd fish, no late run, but enough to keep me plugging away at this line. With 40 minutes to go, I saw a swirl down the edge and the water was clouding up, first drop in saw a fish about 15lb netted, this might have been a senior moment as I put it in a net that had 62lb in it, although I thought that made it 62lb...... it proved to be a costly mistake. Another 3 edge fish that went into a new net for 25lb rounded the match off. I had 9lb skimmers, a net with 69lb and ounces in (close shave) a net with 77lb in (lost 7lb) and the 25lb net. Total weight 173lb with the 7lb deducted, Trigger had 175lb for the win, with my 173lb second, Chris Davies with 170lb for third. See Tony's blog for the full result as I had to shoot off at the end before they were finalised.
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