I have had had a busy few weeks with family activities and was happy to see the South West Disabled and over 55 club were taking guests on their match, a message to Eddie Wynne and I was in. It was too late to order bait locally but I managed to get some at the fishery. I was hoping to fish for silvers but would fish for carp if I drew in the fancied area.
I grabbed a breakfast roll at H&H cafe before heading to the fishery. Even though I arrived in good time I was still last to pay the pools which meant I would be last to draw. I grabbed some maggots and casters and dipped my nets, then I took the last ball in the hat, peg 21. This is a bridge peg and I had plenty of room to my left, on 19 was good friend and venue expert Gary Bowden. Gary was not happy with his draw and reckoned there were not enough carp in the area, there were a few showing as they were having a go at spawning.
I thought the peg plumbed up nice, nice flat area by the boards opposite, where I set up 4x8. A 4x10 for fishing the second shelf across to the bridge and top set plus short 4. 4x14 for fishing 11m in the deep water. All rigs had a 16 SFLB to 0.11. I did have a rig for the LH margin same as across.
We started at 10 and I started across by the boards on maggots as Paul Faires had told me yesterday he only caught the ide like this. Well I had just 1 ide here and lost a couple of carp. I wondered if the spawning had pushed the ide away. I moved to the 11m deep lines and started by the bridge where I had been feeding a bit of maggot and caster. I was soon netting an ide, back out and another. I settled into a routine of toss potting in bait by the bridge and straight out in front, the plan was change between the two if I needed to rest a line. For the best part of 2 hours it worked well catching on double maggot, mainly ide but also 1 perch and 3 little tench. But then both of these lines slowed up and it was time to go elsewhere.
Gary had taken a few early carp but had switched to silvers fishing worms, he started to catch well as I had slowed up. My left hand margin yielded a carp on my first and later next two drops on caster. The top set plus one was a slow burner but then I took 3 skimmers and a 1lb 1/2 tench but then had to move again. I went to the bridge on the second shelf feeding just maggots in a toss pot and straight away I was into ide. I had a good run of them, plus 3 perch all around a 1lb and a small tench. When I hooked and landed a carp it was pretty much fatal for that line.
Dropping back short I took another run of ide before it shut up. LH margin and pulled out of skimmer, but then had a lovely tench that was 31/2lb to 4lb. Next drop a carp.
The last 25 minutes was spent playing carp on whatever line I tried lol.
Match over I had 41lb of silvers on my clicker but usually I over estimate so said to Gary I had 35lb and he said he had the same. The scales were to prove me wrong! Gary had a good 41lb of silvers, but then mine went 53lb 13oz, my first net was 35lb (limit 40lb) and I had clicked 25lb, oh well I got away with it, and clearly the ide are weighers!
Result of the Southwest over 50's and Disabled match fished on the Paddock at Acorn Fishery today 21 fished.
1. David Stephenson 123-01 p13
2. Brad Sowden 119-08 p9
3. Steve Howell 93-15 p1
4. Gary Bowden 88-14 p19
5. Fred Welsh 86-00 p5
6. Graham Smith 72-07 p36
Silver's
1. Tim Ford 53-13 p21
2. Sue Faiers 45-01 p4
3. Gary Bowden 40-00 p19
4. Joanna Wingate 34-05
Well that was a great days fishing and the rain stayed away, in fact I got a bit sunburnt late on! Next week I’m fishing Westerleigh league standing in for the maestro Tony Rixon.
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