Only 40 anglers booked in to fish the latest round of the
AAF Gp 2 league, so the pegging was split with the 3 sections across Campbell
and Cary. Due to family commitments I was a little late I the morning, a fact
that John took much pleasure in, but I still managed to get an excellent
breakfast from the new cafe on site. I did the team draw and managed to put Pez
on 130, new team mate Nick (Knocker) White on 90 odd and myself into the corner
on 74. This was not a bad team draw and I was very happy when all the time
during setting up I had big carp cruising in front of my peg.
As you can see that was not the only redeeming feature
but I decided to be quite single minded in my approach as the carp did not seem
to be in a very co operative mood just mooching about so I would need to find
the feeding fish. To this end my main line of attack was paste both at 13m
alongside the tree at about 1 o’clock and under the branches tight in to the
right again at 13m. I set up a 5m Meat line in case they fancied going there
and I also put up a dobbing rig to try and mug a couple of the cruisers. Just
before the all in I also grabbed a pellet wag rod from the van to try mugging a
bit further out.
The all in was called and I fed my paste lines with a mix
of pellet and hemp before putting an 8mm cube of meat on the mugging rig and I
dropped that on the water 4 times next to the tree. It would have been more but
an 8lb carp had decided to eat it and run into open water, my blue reflex
elastic allowed it to do that but I was still in control and soon had it in the
net. I tried that again thinking the day would be easy but the second fish laughed
at my choice of tackle and ran straight into the branches of the tree and
snapped my 0.20mm mainline by rubbing it down. That was the end of the flurry
and it became a springtime grind, I rotated through my 3 deck lines and having
the odd look at cruising fish but I only managed to snare another 2 carp and a
few skimmers on meat for a total of 33lb 8oz. This is not alot for Viaduct but
as the scales went around the lakes it was obviously an off day, unfortunately
I had lost 2 carp all day and these would prove to be costly, especially as I
was in the split section with pegs 110-115 of Campbell being mixed in with
74-85 on Cary. All bar one of the pegs on Campbell beat my weight as it fished
slightly better, and the bottom end of Cary had seen a few more carp come in so
I managed 7th in my 14 peg section. On the plus side I did beat both
sides and opposite so it was not too bad, and I got to watch Paul Greenwood of
the fishery staff recover a pole section that someone ‘who shall remain
nameless’ decided to use as a plummet.
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