All the Gear, No Idea: 18 June 2013, Trewaters (White Acres)

So onto the second match of our White Acres 2013 – a 15 peg open match at Trewaters. This venue is normally very windswept (they didn’t build a wind farm across the road for nothing) but today the breeze was non-existent and the turbines unmoved – something that in my experience can make the fishing much tougher than a nice stormy day!

Looking left from peg 29

Trewaters isn’t part of the White Acres complex but more of a partner – there are regular Tuesday matches organised through the onsite tackle shop and the lakes are often used for White Acres festivals, but you can’t otherwise pleasure fish there on your White Acres fishing permit. (You can however book the lake and organise your own matches – scales are provided but I believe booking fees apply.)

The site is made-up of a stock pond and two fishable lakes – both of which feature a central island and about 18 pegs each (though as with many venues it seems to fish better when numbers are restricted to say every other peg). The islands are reachable on some pegs with 16m of pole and a long line – however most swims are suited to a feeder approach as they are on average 22-25m wide.

Aerial view of Trewaters

YouTube video of the view from my peg

My previous two visits to Trewaters had seen me draw the same peg (41 on the bottom lake) but rather than a hat-trick peg 29 appeared from the bag of dreams – this is a decent peg in the middle of the far long bank of the top lake. As with the majority of swims the margin of the central island looked very inviting with lots of overhanging foliage and features – peg 29 also features the start of a reed bed to the right which runs through peg 30 (everybody had a spare peg either side today).

Simple bait requirements

Prior to the all-in I set-up two matching feeder rods with small 30g Preston Innovations pellet feeders, the only difference being that one was clipped-up for fishing straight in front to the margin of the central island, the other for fishing to the start of the reed bed mentioned above. (Hooklengths were the usual 10cm of 0.19 Guru N-Gauge with a size 16 QM1 with a hair-rigged pellet band for fishing a 6mm pellet and a size 14 with a hair-rigged bayonet for pop-up 8mm boilies.)

Bait for the feeder was simply some soaked 2mm pellets – though I did have tubes of Kiana Goo in Tutti Frutti and Perfect Peach power smoke in order to ring the changes.

Looking right from peg 29

From a blogging perspective this turned-out to be a very boring yet successful match – I simply spent 5 hours casting a pellet feeder to one of three spots, picking-up carp and F1s on a fairly regular basis!!! When one swim died I’d simply cast to another spot or apply some Tutti Frutti Goo to my feeder – either of which would normally lead to another run of fish!!!

In the end my two weighs saw a pleasing 69-4-0 hit the scales – enough for victory by exactly 10 pounds (though there wasn’t much between second and third!!!).

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