I was off to the float only section on Lodge and Cary for
this round and the weather forecast was 180 degrees different to the day before
with strong winds and rain forecast, you can tell when I draw the float only
section…
Trev did the draw again for John, Rocky, Ivan and myself,
and he gave me peg 62 which was 2 pegs away from where I wanted to be on peg 64
but I was happy that I had the wind and rain off my back all day.
My plan was to fish for silvers at 13m straight in front
so I could control the pole if the wind picked up too much, I plumbed up a meat
lines at 5 and 14.5m in line with the bush to the right of the picture, I set
up a waggler to explore the peg with and finally a margin rig down to the empty
platform to my right.
At the all in I fed 6 cups of groundbait, dead maggot and
caster on the 13m line, 10 cubes of meat opn the 14.5m line and a pinch of
caster, meat and corn down the edge before I cast out the wag baited with corn
to have a look around. After 10 minutes
however, I noticed some bubbling on my meat line so had a quick look, I missed
a quick bite that I assumed was a skimmer so fed another 10 cubes and lo and
behold 5 minute later I was attached to something very angry. Carp number 1 was
subdued on yellow reflex elastic, a 6x8 MW Carp slim and 0.14mm bottom to a
size 1 tubertini 175, it weighed about 8lb so I quickly re fed the line and
waited out for another 30 minutes before deciding to rest that line. I had been watching the guy on peg 64 start
catching down the edge so I had a quick look, 5 minutes later carp number 2 was
in the net looking confused as I had been using some proper gear down the edge
to keep them away from the platform legs and it didn’t like the Orange Reflex
elastic I had down the top of my Ultra Power pole. :-)
This saw the start of a lean period, I could only manage
the odd small fish off the groundbait line but out of the blue with 2 hours to
go 2 casts on the wag saw me land a 2lb skimmer and an 8lb carp both on corn. I
had another big skimmer on the 5m meat line with 10 minutes to go but that was
it, I ended up with 30lb ish and lost a quid to Ken and a quid to Moody. I was
halfway up the section though off a poor draw so it wasn't all bad.
Next week it is the final round and I am praying for a
good draw so that I can get some points back on Moody. Till then tight lines.
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