Day 3 of the 2017 Guru festival today and the mighty Bolingey was to be our destination – despite being a fantastic venue a good draw is definitely needed so I was in two minds when peg 27 appeared from the bag of dreams!
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| Long range view of the Bridge Peg |
The Bolingey regulars amongst you will know that peg 27 is the famous ‘Bridge Peg’, a swim in the far corner of the right-hand lake with a bridge in it!!! The bridge is to the right and crosses the link to the back lake – this channel used to be open (so the fish could swim between the two lakes) but nowadays it is fenced-off, preventing such movement.
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| Bolingey festival pegging |
The peg is certainly a good looking one that offers many options – the usual margin, short and long lines, plus the option of fishing the pole to the far bank to the left of the bush next to the bridge and potentially under the bridge itself. However a quick look at recent results shows that it is not one of the in-form pegs on the lake – when we were at Bolingey last Monday it only yielded two points, and so far this week the anglers that have sat on it have returned 6 and 4 points.
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| Looking across towards peg 45 |
Having plenty of time to set-up I set-up pole rigs to cover the following options:
- The right margin at TK+1
- The left margin (top kit only)
- The secret 3’ line at TK+1 at angle to the left
- The bottom of the near shelf at TK+3 straight in front
- On the deck at 14.5m, slightly to the right
- 14.5m to the far bank, at an angle of 45 degrees to the right
- A shallow rig to be fished at 14.5m
(I managed to set-up this lot and I had time to eat one of Andy Dare’s bacon sandwiches, something of a record!)
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| Bolingey’s famous bridge |
As it happened I caught fish from 6 of these 7 tactics (the only one that didn’t produce was the shallow rig). The most productive lines were probably the ones at the bottom of the near shelf and on the deck at 14.5m, the lines that I really hoped would produce (the right margin and across to the far bank) never really got going, leaving me with 64-0-0 for fifth in section (5 points).
Until next time ...
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