Day 1, I was running this match ably assisted by Pez This
saw me draw peg 16 on Reptile lake, Phase 2, after I had finished with the
tidying up of the draw area and then loaded up my barrow it was off down around
the lake to get to my peg. Upon arrival I found myself sandwiched between 2
guest anglers, Gaz Evans (Army team captain and Makins Regular) and Rocky
(Makins Regular and Army squad member) so I knew that I had my work cut out
from the start. Both Rocky and Gaz however were throwing in disclaimers from
the start saying that I was on a better peg; well I didn’t know as I had not
fished the place since last year. I decided on a simple plan with a method rod
and pellet wag for casting into a gap between two islands at around 23m, Meat
at 5m to my left away from Gaz and then paste over groundbait down on my left
hand margin as I had a platform at 10m.
At the all in I
potted in a half full pot of bait at 5m and then cast the pellet wag into the
gap as the carp were showing on the surface, instantly I knew that this was the
wrong thing to do as the waggler was making too much noise on the impact with
the water and seemed to be making the fish back off from the start. I quickly
decided to get off my box and set up a shallow rig to fish at 14.5M towards the
island, It consisted of a 0.1g Sconzone wellardz on 0.18mm Hybrid mainline to a
0.14mm Cenex bottom terminated in a PR36 hook with a F1 bait band. I dropped a
6mm pellet on the surface 3 times and yellow Reflex elastic poured out of the
top kit, this happened a few more times as I slowly started to trickle bait in
on the line. But it was in a straight line with my back up feeder line so
before I got too carried away I moved it around 4m to the left more towards the
centre of the open water.
I stayed on this for around an hour but I noticed that
the fish were starting to back off a bit so I cast out the feeder to give it a
rest, the tip flew round fairly quickly and I took a quick 10 fish on this
line. I alternated between the tip and the shallow line for the next couple of
hours taking fish steadily, I had a couple of looks on the short line but with no indications I
stayed long.
With 2 hours left to go I put 5 pots of groundbait down
the edge to my left and a couple of minutes later followed it with a rig, consisting of a Big H Bullit paste float on 0.20m cenex with a 0.18mm bottom finished with a size 5 Tubertini 175. This was rigged on a strong hollow elastic so that I could bag happily, by
this time both Rocky and Gaz were making
charges with decent fish from their edges so I had to hope that I could get
enough to stay in front. It didn’t take long and I started to get a few fish
from on it and they were of a slightly better stamp than most other people were
managing, I kept catching until the all out and at the end I knew I had a
decent weight.
The scales came round and I was one of the last to weigh
on Reptile, with 58.680Kg, this was more than enough to see off anyone else in
my section by around 20Kg so the job had been done for day 1. On the team
front, Pez had drawn in a corner on Lake 4, Peg 18 and found himself boxed in,
once the fish backed off from in front of him he struggled, but he had done
enough for the team with a second in section keeping us in contention for the Inter Unit Championships.
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