Today was the first round of the Viaduct WL, 95 of some
of the best anglers in the south west descend across the whole complex on a
random draw. The team for the day was
myself, Trev, Mick, Steve and Ivan and the draw saw me off to peg 8 on Spring.
If you are wondering why the picture is looking down to
the right of the swim, it is because that is where I pointed my box whilst
setting up as that is where I got told all the fish are. He plan was simple dob
all the way down to the trees and hopefully sack up. The reality was a little
different.
At the all-in I shipped down section by section with my
dobbing rig that consisted of 0.20mm line straight through to a size 2
Tubertini 175, 16 solid elastic and a MW Pro Power Shallow 4 no 10. Hookbait
was an 11m punch of bread and over the course of the first hour I had zero
indications, so I set up a waggler rod and started to cast double maggot under
the branches, this again was to no avail and at the end of the second hour I
was starting to get a little emotional shall we say.
It was at this point that I had a little divine
inspiration, (thanks Paul), and I quickly plumbed up a new rig to fish at 13m
down to the right in line with one of the pilings where I found a small
slope. The rig was a MB WAC ‘O’ 0.2g on
0.18mm mainline and a 0.16mm Cenex bottom, again it was a 175 in size 2 to terminate
the rig but I scaled down the elastic to a Blue Reflex. I attached a small pot to the end of the
section and shipped down to the spot with about 10 caster and 3 grains of corn
for feed and a grain of corn on the hook, not a lot happened so I decided to
see if I could get a Roach or Perch. I shipped down and fed with the same again
but his time with double caster on the hook, I waited about a minute and the
float dinked under, I was attached to Carp number 1 who went on a bee line for
the trees to my right. I was able to turn it into open water with steady pressure
and the fight was all but over, 14lb of pristine mirror in the onion sack and I
was a happy bunny again.
The next bite saw me get the fish out of the snags and
then it dropped off for no reason, number 3 ended up in the net but then that
was it for indications on that line for 15 minutes so I decided to rest it for
a while. This is where my throwaway line came in and I had been feeding a 5m
meat line since the all in, I shipped the rig over the top, a 4 no.8 MW Carp
Slim on 0.18-0.14 and a size 1 Tubertini 175, again on Blue Reflex. The sun was
problematic and I decided that whilst the rig was there that I would get some
grub in so I fed about 20 cubes of meat and no sooner that the third pinch hit
the water than the float dipped, a quick lift saw the elastic tearing out and
an unseen force made a run for the trees again.
Once again, steady pressure prevailed and I was soon slipping the net
under another mid double carp, now I would love to say that in the last 2 hours
I continued to catch but I can’t. Despite rotating and resting swims I lost a
foul hooker and another fish dropped off by the net from the long line (yes I
had changed the hooklength) and I also managed a small roach to warrant putting
the silvers net in.
That was it, Ken in peg 9 had had a bad day and I asked
how the pegs to his left had fished, it turned out that it had been a grueller
for most unless you were sat on peg 3, 4 and 5, Peg 5 having 140lb+. My 3 carp and a 2oz Roach went 37lb 3oz:
This was enough for 3rd in section, so a great
start again to my league. I am on Campbell in a fortnight and that is real
underwater bingo at the moment so fingers crossed for that, team on the day
came 12th out of the 19 with myself and Steve doing alright but the
rest of the Guys struggling to get amongst the fish. Full section results can be seen here:
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