Viaduct WL Rd 4 26/02/2012

It was time for the penultimate round of the Viaduct winter league, I was to be on Cary and had one request for Trev at the draw, not pegs 81 or 82 as they were caught in a corner with no form of late. Trev came across the car park and said that I would blank just as he told me that I was on 82, the plan was simple catch a fish and then try to catch another.

Although in the picture it looks nice with an overhanging tree to my left at 11.5m and a monk to my right at the same distance I was hemmed in by both peg 81 to my right against the spit and peg 85 to my right that was just in line with the spit. I made a plan that consisted of a meat waggler, bomb and bread at 20m for the first 20 mins, a skimmer line and then the two margins. To be honest my day was a non starter, I had a liner whilst plumbing up the wag so chucked the bomb whilst everybody else fed pole lines, this didn’t move so I put groundbait and dead mag on my pole line and fished the margins hoping for a quick carp. That was a non event so it was out on the skimmer line and after an hour the line died, I had taken about 5 small skimmers and a couple of small roach from it so then it was a case of rotating around my swims looking for a fish.

All the time I was able to watch as Andy Power on peg 80 was casting into a shoal of carp that were hanging off the end of the spit over the shallow gravel bar. In the last hour (after 2 hours without a bite from anything) I fed 4 balls of groundbait on my skimmer line and took a 12 oz skimmer of it 30 minutes later but that was it for my day. I weighed 3lb 7oz and this was enough for 3^rd from bottom of the section. The team ended up with around 50 points that was just enough to keep us in the top 6 but Pez and myself were being held up by John and Stu who both picked up money from Campbell and Lodge. John Managed 4^th overall but had not paid into the super pools DOH. Next week is the last round and I am in the float only section, all I want is a few fish as I have gone from leading the league to around 40^th in two matches.