This was my last bite at the Fisho cherry and due to the
distance from my house and the fact that I have fished there before I decided
that I would just turn up on the morning and chance my arm, I met up with Ian
fresh from his win the day before at Maccy D’s and after a quick chat we travelled
down to the fishery.
The car parks were overflowing when we got there and
there was a great buzz going around the fishery, the general consensus was that
a the middle of Gold lake, a corner on Middle or Syndicate were the places to
be. So when I drew peg 14 on Gold I was more than happy as it was smack bang in
the middle of the lake and there were fish cruising in front of me all the time
as I was setting up.
So with that amount of fish up in the water, that was
where I was going to target them, Rig 1: Dobbing on the pole, 16m of pole, 3m
of line, a small dibber and a 0.16mm hooklength to a 16 PR36 and a quick stop.
This rig was for dropping a bit of meat in front of any fish that I see
cruising close to me and I also used it to try and mug one for the first 5
minutes, it didn’t work so enough of that.
I then had 2 pellet waggler rods set up for my short
line, one with a loaded float and one with a float with shot, these were both
on 4lb mainline, 0.20mm hooklengths and I had a 14 on the loaded float and a 16
on the shotted float.
The rigs for the long line, next to the rope was a method
feeder and a large loaded pellet wag, again big hooks and strong hooklengths
were the name of the game.
My bait tray was pretty sparse with a couple of bags of
11mm pellet for feed and a few 8mm and robin reds for change baits, I also
dampened off half a pint of 2mm for around the method and I was ready for the
all in.
I walked the bank for a little while trying to see if I
could glean any tips and also trying to give the fish somewhere to hide in
front of my swim, it worked as they moved in and milled around until the
keepnets went in…grrrr. Also on my
wanders I ended up going a quid with Ian and Ray Hayward so that would be interesting
and a reason to stay.
As the hooter went I shipped out on the pole and slapped
the dobbing rig around a bit to see if any carp were still close in, the answer
was no as shed loads of bait was getting thrashed in at around 20-25m and all
the carp started running away to the middle of the lake. I started pinging in a
few pellets further out than the guys either side of me helped along by the
light breeze off our backs, however the fish had obviously backed right off to
the middle of the lake as I managed one missed bite in the first hour and a
half and fish were head and shouldering further out. So out went the big wag,
in the next 30 minutes I landed 1 hooked in the mouth, one foul hooker and lost
a further 2 foul hookers before they moved to the other side of the rope. So it
was back to working hard on the shorter line.
This finally paid off with 2 more bites coming over the
last 3 hours both on the shorter line and both hooked in the mouth, so that was
it the match was over and all I could do at the end was chuckle at how hard the
section had been. The guy top my left
had 2 small carp and a couple of skimmers on the method, he had to wait 33
minutes for his fist bite and 36 for his second??!! The guy to my right
blanked, in fact the only indications he got was when he cast into my swim… Yes
I had noticed but the pegs were a bit tight and I was feeding to one side so
that I could give the fish somewhere to hide within an easy cast, it kind of
worked. It did seem as though the fish did not want a lot of feed and did not
appreciate big loaded wags on their heads as both of my short line fish came on
the shotted pellet wag, I might explain the rigs one day, but not today.
Will Raison was weighing us in so I went up to see how
Ray had done, 46lb saw me losing a quid so I quickly got back to my peg as
loads of people were not weighing in, I had 4 (of the smallest gold lake) carp
for 21lb and due to the fact that no-one else weighed in this won me the
section. The big test was if I had beaten Ian though and the answer was no as
his 40lb+ was enough to win his section as well, so a hard earnt section win
for the pair of us.
Well that was my last chance at Fisho this year, but I may
have a pop at a couple of Maver Match This events in the locality, I will just
have to see if I am feeling lucky closer to the time.
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