It was time for the annual pilgrimage to Todber Manor Fisheries for their Christmas match, I do not usually take any Christmas match seriously due to the
fact that they should be fun and this one did not disappoint I drew peg 37 on
Park lake, one off the flyer for once and with Will Bohne for company on peg
38, Mark Poppleton on peg 5 and all the rest around I was guaranteed a few
laughs even though the weather promised to be crap.
My peg was a standard 14.5m wide so I set up a rig for across, a carp rig
and F1 rig for 6m and also my new Commercial King 8ft F1 Wand that I had received earlier in the week, this got set up with a small scoop feeder just in
case the weather was truly against us.
Bait for the day was pellets, pellets, a few maggots and ½
a tin of corn, at the all in I went out to 6m fed 10 4mm pellet and dropped a
4mm expander into the middle, it took around 10 minutes for my first fish, a
skimmer followed quickly by a 6lb carp. Now at this point I thought that I had
cracked it straight away but after a slow next 30 minutes I was forced to
battle the wind and go across the far side for a few small carp.
I was going nowhere and had nothing to lose so out went
the tip rod, this was quickly christened so I decided to stay on that and tried
to build a maggot line down the track, this never worked and I managed around
10 carp on the tip over the last couple of hours.
I finished with 55lb odd and this was enough for 5th
over all, I won a quid off Pez but was harry’ed with 80 odd pounds to my left
and 58 to my right. Mark won the day with nearly a ton from peg 5, well done
mate. Same time next year but can we go back onto Wadmill??
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