I am not booked in for Tony’s series as I have a few weekends where I’m away, but when I saw him looking for a stand in for this match I grabbed it. Not been to Plantation for a long time and so was looking forward to it. I text Tony for any info, and the legend he is he gave me a good idea as did Mark Bromsgrove, thanks to both 😊. Not much time for prep and wouldn’t need much, I was going to use the rigs I had for Windmill last time.
Sunday morning was I feeling rough, my atrial fibrillation had kicked off about 3am in the morning and it is hard to sleep with a racing pounding heart. This condition continued as I drove down and paid my pools to Tony and I was hoping that it would go away. I enjoyed seeing lots of old faces and tried to talk to many as I could. The main lake and the horseshoe lake called Jubilee was in. I had been told Jubilee is not great unless you draw a couple of pegs. Well I drew peg 9 on Jubilee and it meant I could drive to my peg and I got to see a few pegs and the flyer on the point (not pegged).
I was in a 6 peg section and the payout was top two in each section. I had Ryan Jordan on corner peg 1 and through to Bela Bakos on peg 12, I thought Bela was favourite for the section as there were a lot of fish in front of him. My peg had the island just curving round and a lovely looking margin. As set up my heart returned to normal and I felt better again.
I set up a pellet waggler for the island, a 4x14 with 0.15 to 18 KKMB for fishing banded hard pellet at 13m. Also set up a slapping rig
The margin was about 3 feet deep, and I plumbed up in the little cut back which was 11m away. It was nice and flat and despite being reedy it was clean it seemed.
I set a 4x12 Edge float up for the margin, with 0.17 to 14 XSH. Plan was to fish dead maggots and method mix groundbait.
We started at 10:30 and I decided to start steady by feeding 4mm pellets via a toss pot at 13m. I tried to feed pellets to the island with the catty but the wind had turned and was now blowing in my face. It was a slow first hour for me with just two 3lb carp in the net. Bela had a few more and my neighbour on peg 7 Shaun Fillingham had 1 lump. The wind blew some scum into my peg and this coincided with me having a better second hour at 13m with a few more small carp, but I also managed to catch a couple slapping in the scum and they were much bigger fish. Unfortunately I lost one as the line had wrapped around the top set and we all know how that ends! However, this activity faded and soon I was failing to get a bite.
Tom Baker on 5 was doing well on the pellet waggler, I tried casting it without any loose feed and didn’t get a bite. But then neither did anything else get me a bite. At 2pm with 2 1/2 hours to go I fed gbait and maggots in the margin. Went back on the wag and had 1 5lb carp and nothing else. I had 45lb on my clicker. But it seemed I was falling behind now and I needed the margin to work. With 90 minutes to go I got a couple of indications and the reeds started to knock. I got one eventually and it was 8lb. A refeed and a long wait but then had another carp nearer the 10lb mark. I was fishing 5 dead reds on the hook, and wasn’t getting small fish problems. I had another carp but then lost 2 foulers. I changed to fishing worms on the hook and got 3 more carp on this. The last 15 mins it went quiet and the reeds had stopped moving, but with about 90 seconds left I hooked another carp. I played it out and landed it after the all out.
I thought it would be close between myself and Bela, but he was admitting to 90lb and I said 100lb, actually had 108 on the clicker..
Clayton Hudson was on scales duty and said Ryan with 64lb was top so far, then my fish went 108lb 10oz a nice bag with a couple of 12lb fish. Off to Bela and he was apologetic after his first net weighed a lot more than he had clicked. Lucky for me he fell just short with 106lb 15oz, and my final fish was the difference.
On the whole Jubilee lake fished well with Mat Sheppard winning the other section with 120lb from corner peg 25. Plus another 2 tons on that side.
My section board..
Well that was a pleasant day and got things mostly right I feel, lovely weather, and £80 for the section win. On the main lake Paul Elms had 140lb for top weight catching in his margin, Tony was a close second catching on pellet wag. The fishery is in really good condition and the owner was a really nice bloke too, what’s not to like!
Looks like a warm week ahead, but don’t think I can fish as got plans again.
Tight lines!
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