So it was another days leave so that I could go to
Shearwater and fish a match run by my mate Mark, so after a quick pit stop for
breakfast and a pretty easy run down I was soon at the draw paid in and ready
to go. We had a pair of carp anglers
turn up as we were gathered in the car park, but they found a gap on the dam
wall so it was not as bad as it could have been. I spent most of my time trying to get into
Johns head after the trouncing that he had given me last week, I also fancied
drawing on the road bank as I wanted to try and fish at range all day, well I
got my wish and peg 9 was my destination for the day.
It was basically the peg that Pez had won the group match
from a fortnight ago so I was confident of a few fish, my confidence increased
when I had John drop into the peg to my left and Gary to my right, so the same
three people adjacent to each other two weeks on the bounce. I at least knew that there would be some fish
about with these two around. I went
about setting up a cage feeder rod and method rod both clipped up at the same
number of turns, I decided to start at 65 turns (68 meters ish) and I would see
where I would go from there.
This time I was almost ready for the all in, unlike Gary,
and I was soon sat on the method for no indications in the first 30 minutes, a
swap to the cage feeder was no better and I found an early foe in the form of a
light breeze into our bank that was making hitting the clip accurately difficult
when it gusted. The banter was in full
flow along the bank which was handy as unless you were Mark the fishing
certainly wasn’t. Mark had a great start
to the match with about 10 bream in nearly as many casts. For the rest of us
though it was a bit slower but they soon started to get caught and I soon had
two in the net both taken on double dead red on the cage feeder. John and Gary
were also catching odd fish but I was slipping behind so I decided to change to
the method, this had the desired effect with two quick fish that were both of a
very good average size, but I was soon left scratching my head again.
It was quite obvious that it was not just me struggling
with the breeze as almost everyone along our bank had cracked off once, (some
more than that hey John!) and it was at this point that I decided to
concentrate on the method for the remainder of the match as it was easier to accurately
hit the mark. I swapped my 14ft rod to the method to make it easier and added 5
turns of line to the cast.
The result although not instant was promising with
another 3 fish coming at between 7 and 9 minutes after the feeder had hit the
bottom, I also found that a 6mm yellow dumbbell was getting me all my bites,
but Gary had been catching well and John was close on 8 smaller fish and some
back up silvers. With about an hour to
go I decided to go balls out and try to snag a carp, they had been boshing at
range so I unclipped the feeder and unleashed it.
In this time John had a few more bream 6-7 and Gary had
about the same to give him 20 bream plus backup silvers, I unfortunately managed
only 1 bream in the last hour and didn’t see hid or hair of the carp I was
after, I had wasted the best part of the day on a pipedream and knew it. The all out was called and I decided that no
matter what I was staying on to try and get a carp. As the scales came down John was the first of
our little pocket to weigh and he had managed 32lb, my 8 bream went 24lb!! I
would have only needed three more of my stamp fish to put John in trouble! Gary had 50lb dead, and this was enough to
give him 3rd in the match as well.
I paid the double nugget to john….Grudgingly.
Thankyou Mark for an excellent couple of days on the
bank, I look forward to trying to do it again next year, well done to Steve for
winning with 80lb, and Rob for 2nd with 61lb.
What would I do different?
Although I think I had the right idea I should have
fished a line at 60 meter to start as this would have been easier to cast to
and I could have worked on my accuracy and building the swim. Once again chasing the fish didn’t work, Gary
plugged away on the same line as for most of the day and John regretted trying
longer. So the moral is again pick an
easy distance and stick to it the bream will come.
Tackle used:
Feeder Cage:
Rod: Browning Black Viper 14ft Feeder rod, 3 and 4oz
quiver.
Reel: Shimano CI4 Ultegra 5500
Line: 0.205mm Colmic feeder line 0.13mm hooklength
Hook: 16 QM1
Feeder: 40g small Kevin Leech feeder later swapping to a
Large 42g Guru Hybrid feeder with Black elastic
Feeder method:
Rod: Browning Black Viper 13ft (S) Feeder rod, 4oz
quiver.
Reel: Shimano CI4 Ultegra 5500
Line: 8lb sensor to 0.19mm hooklength
Hook: 14 QM1
Feeder: Large 42g Guru Hybrid feeder with Black elastic
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