It was good to see that the rain we have had this week had changed the river… not! Obviously the rain is being soaked by the ground and the plants. Rich and never leading by 6 1/2 points but the way the river has been it could be wiped out.
After the last match here I would like to be drawn in A section where a lot of fish have been showing, but once again Rich drew A so I was in B (not been in A section at all). When Rich gave me peg 5 (52) I was not happy, it was last in section last time out and not been good all league. It was no surprise to see Dean Harvey on another flyer as he got peg 61 Norfolk Reeds again. Jerry Pocock was on 46 that has been consistent and so I was looking at trouble straight off as those two were on our heels. Rich was on 16 same as last match and so was pleased with that, we needed 14 points to guarantee the win.
Got to my peg in the dry, it’s normally a decent bream peg but they’ve not been caught on it so far. Chopper Amos was on 54 same as last match where he had bream.
Float and a 2g float for the pole. I also set up a 2gm whip rig.
Standard approach gave the gbait feeder 30 mins getting some bait in and looking for a quick fish, only had 2 small perch and a roach on this. Onto my pole / whip line where I had put 6 balls of gbait, I had 2 roach a dace, a small perch and lost a decent perch on the whip. Bites tailed off so I went onto the pencil float, normally I can catch a few on caster or red maggot but it was quite tough. I tried a bronze maggot on the hook and had a dace, then a small perch. The change to bronze maggot was a good one as I had about 40 minutes catching these dace and perch (all swingers). It died and I went back on the feeder. I gave Dean a ring and he was already on 2 bream and some skimmers and double figures, another battering on the cards. My feeder line was just not working and all I could get was the odd little perch.
I had been trying to feed a waggler line with bronze maggot but storms and variable winds were making it difficult. I had tiny chublets and bleak on this but couldn’t see me getting enough of them, so I upped the feed and went back to the pole. This coincided with a big storm and I put the brolly up. I caught 3 or 4 more fish but it was dying, and then my pole sections jammed together. That was the end of the pole fishing!
I spent the remainder of the match switching between the feeder and the waggler, with no brolly it was rather wet lol. I just couldn’t get any quality fish, on the waggler I did manage a few 3oz chublets in between the tiny ones. When the match finished I was sure I had dipped out and Rich had struggled with his peg not fishing anything like last time, though he had lost a bream which might be crucial 😬.
Dean was soon along with the scales showing off his Turkey Teeth with a broad smile having had 17lb 11oz. Shaun Townsend was next best with 7lb 12oz from peg 56 where I was last match. My net of small fish went 6lb 8oz.
Walked back pushing my trolley and got to peg 24 and thought I had forgotten to pick my metal peg up, so walked all the back to peg 52 only to find it wasn’t there, turned out Dean had picked it up! Good exercise I guess 🤣🤣
Rich and I came 2nd with 81 points just beating Dean and Derek by 1/2 point (thanks to Mike Weston weighing the same as Derek).
A disappointing end to the league for me, but everyone has had a bad one at some point. I really don’t think I drew a fancied peg and that’s the way it can go. But it’s still a great league and great fun to fish. Maybe next year the draw will be kinder lol.
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