It was time for another group match and this time we were
back off to Todber, the weather gods obviously saw us coming because the forecast
was for showers as usual, however, the wind should stay off us. The draw as usual
was at Skevvys cafe in Shaftesbury and my team for the day was just myself and
Tommy as Pez was away. Tommy did the draw and ended up on Whitepost whereas I was
off to Park and permanent peg 12, I had been beaten badly by this peg in the
past so I knew it had a bit of form and was therefore quite happy.
I decided on another easy day so I set up a rig for
across to fish meat in the reeds, a paste rig for 2+2 and another paste rig for
the margin to my left, I would feed the track at the start with a pot of hemp
and pellet and then concentrate across for the first part of the match.
The all in was called and I potted in a full pot on my track
line before shipping my across rig over, it consisted of a 4X12 Big H Border
float on 0.20mm mainline to a 0.16mm bottom and a size 2 Tubertini 175 hook, to
match the rig I had it set on a short length of Blue reflex hollow elastic. The
Kinder pot on the end of the rig was filled with hemp and meat and I shipped
across into the gap in the reeds expecting a quick response; however this swim
never really took off. I had fish in it almost straight away but if I had not
had a positive indication within the first minute after feeding then I would
not catch a fish. I lasted on this line for around 30 minutes and had put a few
small carp into the net but it was not quick enough and the track line was
fizzing so out went a big chunk of paste. The rig for this line was a 4X14 Big
H paste float on 0.20mm mainline and a 0.18mm bottom to a size 5 ‘175’, elastic
started as blue reflex but I soon changed this to green as I was catching a few
fish on it. I was feeding by dumping in some bait every few fish as I found
that feeding through the paste pot was drawing the fish up in the water, but it
was steady on this line with small carp and F1’s coming steadily to paste. I
stayed on this line for the next couple of hours catching steadily before
deciding to feed my margins. For this I had 2Kg of groundbait mixed and I
started with 5 full pots containing a few cubes of meat, this line was again
steady and provided a few fish but never really took off, the fish were the
same size as the short pole so I was alternating until the all out, I had been
watching Dave Doc’s catching from the end peg all day and in the last hour I
managed to get a few fish strung together. At one point I landed 3 4-6lb fish
in the same amount of time it took him to land 1, so In was confident that I
may have managed to claw something back.
As you can see from the section weigh sheet I managed to
do more than claw a bit back and I was able to overtake Docs in the last 30
minutes or so as the fish turned up in numbers.
SECTION
|
PEG No
|
NAME
|
TEAM
|
WEIGHT
|
POSITION
|
A
|
1
|
Statters
|
ARMCEN B
|
14.56
|
9
|
A
|
2
|
Oakey
|
Nomads
|
42.28
|
3
|
A
|
3
|
Goddard
|
Orphans
|
11.26
|
10
|
A
|
4
|
Holmes
|
Tidworth Gunners
|
0
|
13
|
A
|
5
|
Brettle
|
Individual
|
30.64
|
6
|
A
|
6
|
Cicconi
|
Army HQ B
|
15.28
|
8
|
A
|
7
|
Hamilton
|
ARMCEN A
|
26.64
|
7
|
A
|
8
|
Duggan
|
Individual
|
6.8
|
11
|
A
|
9
|
Bentley
|
11 Sig Regt
|
50.15
|
1
|
A
|
10
|
Poolman
|
Army HQ A
|
30.87
|
5
|
A
|
11
|
Farragher
|
Individual
|
40.73
|
4
|
A
|
12
|
Docherty
|
RA Centre
|
45.45
|
2
|
To sum up it was a thoroughly enjoyable day and I even
managed second overall in the match beaten from a weight from the other side of
Park where Duncan Cooper chucked the method all day to record an impressive 70
odd Kilos. I’m off to Makins next then back to Viaduct.
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