28 fishing this one, so Campbell and Cary in, I bought a pint of casters, intending to fish for silvers if I drew a suitable peg, I was slightly down hearted when I opened up the ticket and saw 123, a peg any silvers angler would have run to a few years back, but not now. Best bet I thought would be to target the few resident carp, that surely must be down in the corner and along the end bank.
Arriving at my peg the first thing that struck me was the clarity of the water, gin clear. If it had not been a corner peg, the pole would have stayed in the holdall, but I did set it up, with a rig to fish down into the corner, a long line between pole tip and float due to the clarity of the water. Two waggler rods, one with 2.5lb Maxima and a 0.10 hooklength, I was also trying out some new (to me) hooks - Guru F1 maggot, in size 20, a nice light gauge wire. The other rod had 4lb line and a 0.12 hooklength and a 18LWG hook.
Two lead rods, one for popped up bread, the other for meat, corn etc. Bait tray was simple, caster, maggot, meat, corn and bread, with a few frozen prawns although I am yet to catch a fish on a prawn at Viaduct.
Starting on the lead / bread, I searched around the peg, open water and along the end bank, but without so much as a liner, I wasn't confident that there were even any resident carp in the area, walking to the peg, the carp were very much giving their location away, sat in a big ball up by the aerator.
A switch to the waggler and corn was equally unproductive and 2 hours in I was fishless, I had been feeding a line slightly to my right at a bout 20m with caster and a switch to this brought 4 good perch in the next hour to double caster and a skimmer. Peg 125 was catching skimmers on the waggler and I couldn't seem to draw them down to me, another typical winter day. I managed one more skimmer and 3 roach on the waggler, a look round the peg with a prawn produced nothing, with the perch being between 1.5 and 2lb, my net went 10.10 which was 4th in the silvers and one out of the money, maybe I should have fished for silvers the whole match....
The match was won by a huge margin from 130, Martin Lenaghan weighing 264lb, although that was knocked back to 180lb as he was the latest to fall foul of the net limits.
I have joined the 'ramp club' having had one for Xmas, certainly easier than lifting a loaded trolley in and out of the van.
2 comments:
With positive attitude and simple way you my friend will catch a lot more fishes.
Believe it or not, the negative attitude is a parody, it's become a bit of banter, what's expected, but I do go to 99% of pegs with a positive attitude.
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