Day 2 saw us all swapping lakes and Pez and I tried
something new by drawing for each other, it worked, I put him on a good peg,
Snake 15, and he put me on end peg 26 on Lake 4. It was looking good for the
team until I found out that the day before only 9Kg had come off it, but it was
a start point. When I got to my peg I found the island on my left hand side
that extended to the rope at around 40yds, there was a big tree on both sides
of my peg and also a really nice margin down to my left hand side that required
the bare minimum of gardening.
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This allowed me to make an easy plan I was going to fish
the pellet wag, method or bomb long and then paste down the edge to my left in
the last couple of hours, I set up an 11ft Force Pellet Waggler 2 with a Xitan
030FD reel and 0.18mm mainline. I slid a sliding pellet wag rig up the line
with a 4.5g clear loaded pellet wag and terminated it with a 0.18mm bottom to a
16 hook and a bait band on the hair. I also set up a bomb rig on a 10ft Force
Commercial bomb and then set up a similar margin paste rig as yesterday for down the edge. At the all in I cast out the pellet wag and
was rewarded with a fish on my 4th cast at around 5 feet deep, this filled me with confidence and with the wind blowing from over my left shoulder I was able to controll feeding and the float easily. This then set the rest of
the day, I caught fish on the waggler on and off for the first 4 hours of the
match and had 15 fish in the net at the end of this period at depths from
2-6ft, I also caught one on paste on a rig I quickly set up at 5m after
watching Ivan on the far bank bag a couple of quick fish. This only gave me
the one so at 2hrs to go I fed the edge and had a look, again it took the fish
about 20 minutes to settle but then I stopped foul hooking the fish and started
landing some better margin fish. I had a further 7 or 8 in the last couple of hours
and this was enough to give me another good weight with 55.850Kg and this was enough to take top spot on the day again.
It was a brilliant couple of days and the best bit was
picking up not only the individual championship but Pez and I also managed to
pick up the team as well. Not too bad.
Here are the full results:
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