I’m sure we’d all agree that at times match fishing can be a frustrating mistress. There are days when you draw the only peg in the bag with no chance whatsoever of doing any good. Then there are the days when it is cold and wet or there is the tail-end of a hurricane wreaking havoc across the country, breaking pole sections for fun. And then of course there are the days when we get our tactics wrong, turning a pre-match flyer to dust! However every now and again everything comes together and suddenly everything is right with the world …
So with it being a Friday at White Acres it could mean it was time for only one thing – Bolingey o’clock! Things started well with the best bacon roll in Cornwall and a dolly of a draw in peg 18, a cracking looking peg on the far side of the back lake with the point of the central island directly in front at about 25m and a superb looking margin to the left, with what I can only describe as a ‘pointy out bit of banking’ at about top kit plus 3.
Nice day for it
The first two hours of the match were fairly steady with approximately 45lb of small carp falling to a small feeder cast to the island – as all legering devices at Bolingey need to be totally free running the rig itself consisted of a 24g mini Guru hybrid feeder on 8lb Daiwa Sensor stopped by a Drennan quick change bead. The hooklength was made-up of 10cm of 0.19 Guru N-Gauge with a size 14 QM1 and an 8mm hair – just right for a slightly trimmed-down piece of 8mm wafter. (The feeder itself was loaded with soaked White Acres 2mm pellets with a little Mainline Cell liquid for added stickiness.)
When a bite came it would come within a few seconds of the feeder landing, leaving the feeder in the water for any length of time literally being a complete waste of time. Bites came at fairly regular intervals from the start until about 2 o’clock – right up until the point I was thinking that things were going pretty well, when like a switch the fish seemed to completely disappear and I couldn’t buy a bite on feeder, bomb or waggler for the next hour!!!
The lovely looking left margin
Slightly earlier than I’d intended it was by now 3 o’clock and time to attack the margin – as soon as I did I wished I’d done so earlier as it was solid! The fish weren’t massive (6-10lb) but there were plenty of them and they were well up for a munch with about 90lb of them gracing my net before the all-out was called at 5 o’clock.
Rude not to!
In the end my three nets went 135-12-0, good enough for third overall (in all fairness only a mere ten ounces ahead of fourth), but agonisingly close to first and second (148lb and 146lb), that wasted hour between 2 and 3pm really costing me. Anyway Monday is the first day of the Maver festival and we are back on Bolingey so I will be looking for another dolly of a draw and a section or lake win – if only it was that easy!!!
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