Got myself to H&H and a breakfast roll and hash browns was very nice. At the fishery and Tony got the draw underway after going through the rules, one new rule where you have to transfer the fish from landing net to keepnet, in other words you can’t drop the fish in with your hand. I then drew my peg, 32, oh dear! 32 is hardly ever used and I was in what was probably one of the worst sections with peg 31,30, 28 and 27 in with me. Martin Reyat on bridge peg 33 was likely to give me a battering but at least he was in another section.
As you can see I had the standard view of Acorn, goats and all. I’d spoken to venue regulars Gary Bowden and Bob Gullick and so had a bit of a plan. Ordinarily here I would fish for silvers but I thought I’d go for carp at first. Set up a 4x10 rig for banded pellet for fishing across by the boards, a 4x12 for my margin where I would feed maggots, also had a 4x16 for fishing down the middle with maggots.
Match started at 10:30 and I went across toss potting some 4mm pellets with a 6mm in the band. It was a slow start but I did get a couple of small carp but then every bite I got seem to result in a fouler. After an hour I had 3 carp for 10lb, next hour was just as tough and on my right James Matthews had only 1 carp and took a break enjoying an ice cream with his partner lol. I’d been feeding maggots at 7 metres and tried this and caught a skimmer and a couple of ide but no carp. Meanwhile Martin was catching well shallow on casters and had 70lb. I changed from pellets across to toss potting maggots, it got me a decent amount of bites, some ide and a couple of carp plus more foulers. It soon petered out.
Martin carried on catching shallow by the bridge then short and in his edge.
I was now clearly not going to compete in my section thought, as Dom Sullivan and Russ Peck had a few carp. I gave in to fish for silvers and had a good go on maggots at 7m. It wasn’t hectic but I managed to get some ide and a few skimmers before it died. I started loose feeding maggots across now with about 2 hours to go. This was steady and got me quite a few ide, skimmers and perch plus a small tench and a couple more carp. Match was over and I thought I had 25lb of silvers and 30lb of carp.
Tony came round with the scales and my section was being win by Dom. James had a better last half of the match getting a few carp shallow and in his edge. My silvers went 30lb 1oz and my carp 30lb 14oz. My overall weight beating just Martin Pettifer who had really struggled. Martin ended up with 147lb but got beat by Mat Shepard. Martin had 29lb 11oz of silvers in his weight too. Picture below of 3 sections.
Tony was paying 2 in the silvers but I was beaten by Ben Brooks with 38lb and Paul Faires 32lb. They had fished for silvers nearly all match. I definitely could have got second but there you go I didn’t lol. Match was won by Paul Elms on rocket ship peg 5, think he had about 211lb . Not sure of the rest of the frame as I got on my way. An enjoyable yet tough day, I fed nearly 2 1/2 pints of maggots as I tried to make something happen, a few decent tench was all I missed.
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