Charlies memorial match is a silvers only match, it couldn't be any other way, Charlie, to put it mildly, was not keen on 'vermin' and only fished for silvers. For those who didn't know him, a big character for many years on the match scene, he owned a maggot farm at one time and sponsored a very successful team - Avon Bait. Much missed by his angling friends.
27 fishing, I wasn't too fussed where I drew, although a bridge peg is usually home to a few tench. 13 it was, nowhere near a bridge, but should be OK for a few bites, although I had my doubts it would take a big weight to win it, given the bright sunshine, no breeze and warm weather - not ideal silvers weather and the carp were already active.
Decided there wasn't any need to get more than 11m of pole out, likely to be carp and F1's across, so a rig for skimmers at 11m, another rig for 2+2, one for topkit only and one for halfway up the near shelf either side. Bait tray was maggots, casters, worms could stay in the bag, they'd attract carp! Had some micros and soft pellets, but wasn't expecting much but carp on them if I'm honest.
With Sue Faiers on my right on 12 and venue regular Mike Chapman on 15, I had a little space towards 14, but I started short on caster and had 4 tench and a couple of roach in the first hour. The skimmer line was a bit of a non starter, I had one over it, but there were carp over any feed I put in straight away, I landed carp to just about 10lb on a 20 Guru F1 and 0.10, not losing many at all, they were becoming a nuisance, several times there were five of us in a row playing carp, that went straigh back.
I just stuck at the caster and was rewarded with an odd tench and other silver throught the match, slow going because of the weather, but it was a lovely day to be out.
Come the end, I managed to put 17.15 0n the scales, which wasn't enough to claim the memorial shield, as I was beaten into second place by my mate Paul, who had a great skimmer catch of 21.10, good on the day when most struggled to catch them Third was another silvers stalwart, Nige Bartlett.
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