I got called in to fish this match as Stu was going to be
unavailable, I took his place and Trev drew me out 110 on Campbell. In the
summer and last year I would have been happy with this draw but all of the carp
in Campbell had been shoaled up in front of peg 116 for a few months and the
guy on the peg in the open the day
before had caught a carp and then tipped back!!
Unperturbed I started to set up a tackle shops worth of
kit, a bomb rod for meat or bread, a waggler to fish maggot around the peg, a
pellet waggler set at half depth to suspend a bit of punched meat, a margin
pole rig and a skimmer rig to fish at 14.5m in front of me. I started the match
as normal with 4 balls of groundbait on the pole line before I decided to explore
around the peg with the deck waggler and maggot. I stuck it out for nearly 30
minutes for 3 tiny roach before I chucked the bomb out for 2 casts with no real
signs of life. I went out on the pole line and struggled for a few small
skimmers and roach and was going nowhere until I started casting the waggler
and maggot to the middle of the lake for a few roach. The margin was unproductive
and a waste of time but I did learn a few things by drawing the wrong end of
the lake.
1) Sometimes there are just no carp!!
2) Take a lighter waggler rod for roach fishing
3) Don’t feed too much on a winter carp line, although I
did not feed alot down the margin, after a couple of hours I felt that I should
not have fed anything and just felt my way into the swim!!
I finished the day with 4lb dead and this was good enough
for 3 points out of a possible 19. 150lb
+ won the lake and this was from 116, well done Mark.
The team suffered from a bad draw with 3 of us picking up 3 points, a 5 and John Dewberry saving us with 16 points I believe.
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