36-12-0 ...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016
09 October 2016, John's Lake (Willinghurst)
47lb on the nose!
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Friday, 30 September 2016
30 September 2016, Porth Reservoir (White Acres)
He who dares Rodney, he who dares!!! Porth Reservoir today, fished for the bream all day and came last in section!!!
So that’s another White Acres festival done and dusted, unfortunately my fishing performances were generally below par but the drinking and the banter were good so who cares!!!
So that’s another White Acres festival done and dusted, unfortunately my fishing performances were generally below par but the drinking and the banter were good so who cares!!!
Thursday, 29 September 2016
29 September 2016, Twin Oaks (White Acres)
Right lake, nearly the right peg!!! Though it did only score 2 points yesterday ...
Twin Oaks peg 12 today. Had a mid-match meltdown and never had a fish between 14:30 and 16:00 as I was chasing shadows trying to catch the carp I could see swirling and tailing-up over my secret deep margin line at the bottom of the marginal shelf!!!
Other than that the first part of the match was OK as I managed a few on the hybrid feeder and the latter part of the match was OK once I started fishing the proper (tight to the bank) margin and the 5m line.
I was never going to compete with pegs 16 and 18 (and the awesome Roy Penkethmen who caught 120lb from peg 8) but was disappointed that my 67lb was just four pounds behind peg 10 and five pounds behind the mighty Paul Holland on peg 4, that wasted 90 minutes really costing me!!!
4 points only I'm afraid, Porth Reservoir tomorrow ...
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| Peg 12 it is |
Twin Oaks peg 12 today. Had a mid-match meltdown and never had a fish between 14:30 and 16:00 as I was chasing shadows trying to catch the carp I could see swirling and tailing-up over my secret deep margin line at the bottom of the marginal shelf!!!
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| Looking left |
Other than that the first part of the match was OK as I managed a few on the hybrid feeder and the latter part of the match was OK once I started fishing the proper (tight to the bank) margin and the 5m line.
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| All the gear ... |
I was never going to compete with pegs 16 and 18 (and the awesome Roy Penkethmen who caught 120lb from peg 8) but was disappointed that my 67lb was just four pounds behind peg 10 and five pounds behind the mighty Paul Holland on peg 4, that wasted 90 minutes really costing me!!!
4 points only I'm afraid, Porth Reservoir tomorrow ...
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
28 September 2016, Trewaters (White Acres)
White Acres Maver festival day three today and Trewaters 49 was to be my home for 5 hours of fun and excitement ...
I started the match by fishing the secret deep margin rig at top kit plus 1 to the right in 3 feet of water – the float dipped under almost immediately, though after a spirited battle (lasting what seemed like a lifetime) something of a beast came off at the net!!! To say I was annoyed would be something of an understatement!!!
A switch to the pellet feeder to the island only lasted 3 chucks so the next few hours saw me rotating between the deep margin and a 5m line, potting few 6mm pellets as I went. This was fairly productive and I caught steadily, often getting one when returning to a rested swim.
Towards the end I fed the left margin (at TK + 1) with micros/riddled meat then maggots but could only generate a poor response (lost a small carp, landed odd skimmer) so I switched to fishing the deep margin rig at 11.5m into the corner – this got me a few more carp but I then lost a foul-hooker which seemed to upset things somewhat. I eventually went right under the bush in the corner at 13m with 15 minutes to go – I caught 3 carp doing this but I also lost 2 rigs in the gorse!!!
60lb on the nose for fourth in section and six points was the result – ohh and I beat Steve Sanders off the next peg so that was nice!
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| Nice photo of a tree |
I started the match by fishing the secret deep margin rig at top kit plus 1 to the right in 3 feet of water – the float dipped under almost immediately, though after a spirited battle (lasting what seemed like a lifetime) something of a beast came off at the net!!! To say I was annoyed would be something of an understatement!!!
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| Looking towards the central island |
A switch to the pellet feeder to the island only lasted 3 chucks so the next few hours saw me rotating between the deep margin and a 5m line, potting few 6mm pellets as I went. This was fairly productive and I caught steadily, often getting one when returning to a rested swim.
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| The corner to the left |
Towards the end I fed the left margin (at TK + 1) with micros/riddled meat then maggots but could only generate a poor response (lost a small carp, landed odd skimmer) so I switched to fishing the deep margin rig at 11.5m into the corner – this got me a few more carp but I then lost a foul-hooker which seemed to upset things somewhat. I eventually went right under the bush in the corner at 13m with 15 minutes to go – I caught 3 carp doing this but I also lost 2 rigs in the gorse!!!
60lb on the nose for fourth in section and six points was the result – ohh and I beat Steve Sanders off the next peg so that was nice!
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
27 September 2016, Pollawyn (White Acres)
Today was day two of the 2016 Maver festival and after yesterday’s good start I was looking for another flyer in order to keep the momentum going. Being drawn into E section for this festival meant that I’d be staying onsite today as I’d be fishing Pollawyn – over recent seasons the fishing on this lake seems to have gotten trickier and trickier, making that dip into the bag of dreams even more vital ...
The pegs to draw on Pollawyn normally include those on the infamous High Bank – these face onto the widest part of the lake and are typically home to the big old carp that have been swimming about in this lake since the initial stocking way back when. However my home for the day was to be peg 45 – this isn’t on the High Bank but is often considered to be something of a flyer as you can flick a swinger rig with 16m of pole and a 2m lash into the far-bank rushes, as demonstrated by Lee Edwards in the Preston Innovations Winning Pegs 6 DVD.
So with the far-bank rushes being the obvious feature this formed the basis of my pre-match attack, the rig in question being mounted on a black Hydrolastic top kit and consisting of 0.17 Guru N-Gauge mainline, a 0.6g Drennan Inline Crystal Dibber and a 15cm hooklength of 0.13 into a size 16 Guru LWG hook with a hair-rigged pellet band. As a back-up I also set-up a rig for fishing for perch and other silverfish along the left-hand margin, as well as a rig for catching anything and everything at top kit plus two sections slightly to the right.
Unfortunately the match itself didn’t really go to plan! I spent a great deal of the match (far too long in hindsight) flicking my rig towards the far-bank rushes, only hooking 6 carp and only managing to land 3. (I did however manage to hook the rushes many, many times and I did manage to get through loads and loads of hooklengths!) When I finally got around to trying my other lines I couldn’t buy a bite from the left-hand margin (even on single maggot) and the 5m line only produced a few perch and barbel (I have a sneaky feeling that there aren’t as many skimmers in this lake as there used to be).
In the end my 3 carp and associated bits and bobs went 19-0-0, only good enough for 4 points (sixth in section). This means that I’ve dropped from twenty-fourth to sixtieth and looking for a better result tomorrow on Jenny’s Lake or Trewaters!
Until next time ...
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| Another flyer! |
The pegs to draw on Pollawyn normally include those on the infamous High Bank – these face onto the widest part of the lake and are typically home to the big old carp that have been swimming about in this lake since the initial stocking way back when. However my home for the day was to be peg 45 – this isn’t on the High Bank but is often considered to be something of a flyer as you can flick a swinger rig with 16m of pole and a 2m lash into the far-bank rushes, as demonstrated by Lee Edwards in the Preston Innovations Winning Pegs 6 DVD.
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| Looking left |
So with the far-bank rushes being the obvious feature this formed the basis of my pre-match attack, the rig in question being mounted on a black Hydrolastic top kit and consisting of 0.17 Guru N-Gauge mainline, a 0.6g Drennan Inline Crystal Dibber and a 15cm hooklength of 0.13 into a size 16 Guru LWG hook with a hair-rigged pellet band. As a back-up I also set-up a rig for fishing for perch and other silverfish along the left-hand margin, as well as a rig for catching anything and everything at top kit plus two sections slightly to the right.
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| Looking right |
Unfortunately the match itself didn’t really go to plan! I spent a great deal of the match (far too long in hindsight) flicking my rig towards the far-bank rushes, only hooking 6 carp and only managing to land 3. (I did however manage to hook the rushes many, many times and I did manage to get through loads and loads of hooklengths!) When I finally got around to trying my other lines I couldn’t buy a bite from the left-hand margin (even on single maggot) and the 5m line only produced a few perch and barbel (I have a sneaky feeling that there aren’t as many skimmers in this lake as there used to be).
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| Cosy! |
In the end my 3 carp and associated bits and bobs went 19-0-0, only good enough for 4 points (sixth in section). This means that I’ve dropped from twenty-fourth to sixtieth and looking for a better result tomorrow on Jenny’s Lake or Trewaters!
Until next time ...
Monday, 26 September 2016
26 September 2016, Bolingey (White Acres)
So after a nice sunny day at Boligney on Friday it was back to the same venue today for the first day of the five day 2016 Maver festival, though unfortunately the weather was somewhat different! Whilst Friday was a lovely warm, sunny day the weather forecast for today was basically for rain all day and unfortunately on this occasion Michael Fish’s prediction was 100% correct!!!
However, just like Friday I did manage to draw another good peg, this time number 10 – this is also on the back lake but is on the narrower, left-hand side, next door to peg 11 where Claire ‘Bagger’ Hollis smashed-out a section winning 130lb in the Milo festival back in May.
I started with a small feeder to the island (same gear as Friday) again and despite a late switch to the bomb and bread I finished the first hour fishless and biteless – not the flying start to the festival I was hoping for! There must’ve been fish in the area as Tom Cole next door on peg 11 was picking-off the odd fish on the bomb and bread, but concluding that either I wasn’t doing it right or that the fish were happier around the point of the island in front of Tom a switch to the pole was in order. (Funnily enough Tom and I drew next to each other in last year’s Maver festival on Bolingey, Tom sitting on 10 with myself on 11.)
I started on the 5m (top kit plus two) line and had a feeling it was going to be tricky as it was over 8’ deep here, a depth that in my experience makes foul-hookers all too common. This turned-out to be the case as I hooked 4 carp here but only landed 2, neither of which had the hook in the right place! However a line at the top of the near shelf in about 3’ was much better – in total I landed 5 good fish (including one of 16lb that looked much bigger) from this spot and only lost 2, neither of which felt obviously foul-hooked.
The rest of my catch came from the right-hand margin – as I was fishing at Bolingey it seemed rude not to fish the margins at some point, though in fairness I probably caught more from the 3’ line. In the end my fished weighed 105-11-0 putting me second in section and a mighty twenty-fourth out of 180 heading into day two …
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| Roll-up, roll-up! |
However, just like Friday I did manage to draw another good peg, this time number 10 – this is also on the back lake but is on the narrower, left-hand side, next door to peg 11 where Claire ‘Bagger’ Hollis smashed-out a section winning 130lb in the Milo festival back in May.
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| Tom Cole next door on 11 |
I started with a small feeder to the island (same gear as Friday) again and despite a late switch to the bomb and bread I finished the first hour fishless and biteless – not the flying start to the festival I was hoping for! There must’ve been fish in the area as Tom Cole next door on peg 11 was picking-off the odd fish on the bomb and bread, but concluding that either I wasn’t doing it right or that the fish were happier around the point of the island in front of Tom a switch to the pole was in order. (Funnily enough Tom and I drew next to each other in last year’s Maver festival on Bolingey, Tom sitting on 10 with myself on 11.)
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| Not much sun today! |
I started on the 5m (top kit plus two) line and had a feeling it was going to be tricky as it was over 8’ deep here, a depth that in my experience makes foul-hookers all too common. This turned-out to be the case as I hooked 4 carp here but only landed 2, neither of which had the hook in the right place! However a line at the top of the near shelf in about 3’ was much better – in total I landed 5 good fish (including one of 16lb that looked much bigger) from this spot and only lost 2, neither of which felt obviously foul-hooked.
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| The right-hand margin |
The rest of my catch came from the right-hand margin – as I was fishing at Bolingey it seemed rude not to fish the margins at some point, though in fairness I probably caught more from the 3’ line. In the end my fished weighed 105-11-0 putting me second in section and a mighty twenty-fourth out of 180 heading into day two …
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