The run up to this match had been quite hectic, I had
managed to get my new pole sections delivered the week before whilst I was away
on holiday, however I could not collect them until the Monday, at this point I
got them home Monday night only to find that the number 4 section had been
broken in transit…. Tuesday saw an aggravated Ben on the phone to the shop and
they are going to order a new section and replace it for free but I was still
left without a pole for the next day.
Fortunately Reids Tackle had something that would fit the bill so my
late afternoon saw a frantic dash to the shop to pick up my new toy and then
the evening was spent elasticating it.
The following morning Craig picked me up and I am glad
that I had managed a small breakfast when I got up as we got caught up in the
after mouth of a crash on the A303 just 4 minutes from my house. We ran up the road to have a quick check and
all bar one bloke who had hurt his arm and was in shock everyone else seemed to
be walking wounded so with nothing else that we could do… bar telling the
emergency services the exact location we were soon back on the road. On the road I managed to get the best selfie
EVER:
We got to the café a little late but not as late as many
others coming from our way, breakfast was half eaten as it was huge and then it
was time for the AGM, there were some good points and bad points but you had to
be there really… no you really should have.
Onto the draw and with only 36 booked in there was going
to be tons of room as the 3 sections covered Ash, Hillview and both Whitepost
lakes, Pete and I were discussing where we wanted, Pete wanted Ash, I was happy
wherever and Pez just didn’t want Ash. I
did the draw and put Pete on the end peg of Ash, Pez on Peg 54 on Hill view and
myself on peg 6 on the top lake of Whitepost, Craig hed drawn the Golden peg, 9
so the transport was easy.
We did a trip to the shop to drop off the BBQ food for
the evening and then went to the lake, I found that I had Griff on peg 4, Ivan
on the peg I thought I was on, 7, and Craig once again had half a lake to
himself on peg 9. On the bottom lake
Rocky was sat on a good peg and there were a few other pegs that I thought
would have a chance to beat the tip lake as historically it is better on the
bottom lake, anyway I went about setting up my gear.
I was more than ready for the all in and after a lack lustre
15 minutes looking on the feeder and wag across I started properly on paste at
13m, this gave me 5 carp in pretty quick succession and I thought that I was I
for a very easy day, but as is often the case I soon started to suffer from
fizzing so had to look elsewhere.
Shallow was the answer for 1 carp and 4 F1’s before again I was
struggling and it was then a case of trying to put a couple of bites together on
a line before moving and starting again on another. The forth hour was the best with several carp
falling to paste down the edge after I changed from meat, it seemed to get
better bites and no liners. I also moved
my short line closer towards the end and started to feed 8mm pellet over it and
this again gave me a few more fish in the last hour when it got hard across the
whole lake.
As the all-out was called I knew that I had a half tidy
weight but I was not too sure how much exactly I had managed, it was over a ton
for sure but I didn’t think it would be a ton fifty. The main thing was to stop Craig taking the
Golden peg and my 58Kg was enough for that as he had managed 43Kg, he really
struggled for periods of the match with foul hookers and lost fish. As it turned out I was right about the bottom
lake and Gav had 70Kg off the end peg and then Rocky had 62Kg from the narrows
so I was third in section.
Pete had a blinding day from Ash with 76Kg for a section
and match win and Pez pulled a section win out of the bag from Hill view with
over 60kg, so the team was first on the day with the other two carrying me
again.
The evening saw a few of us having a BBQ and it was a
good way to end the day and prep for the Knock up the next day.
What would I have done differently?
I would have liked to have drawn the lower lake on
Whitepost and that’s about it really, I got more than what I thought the peg
was worth so it was a good day on that front.
Tackle used:
Pole Long and short Paste:
Elastic: Preston 17H
Line: 0.19mm to 0.17mm Powerline
Hook: 5 Tubertini 175
Float: 4X10 Big H Paste
Pole Long shallow:
Elastic: White Hydro
Line: 0.19mm to 0.13mm Powerline
Hook: 20 Guru Pellet wag
Float: 0.2g Drennan crystal dibber
Pole Margin:
Elastic: Red Vespe
Line: 0.19mm powerline to 0.17mm Powerline
Hook: 5 Tibertini 175
Float: KC Carpa Margin
Method:
Rod: Drennan series 7 Carp[ feeder 10ft.
Reel: Daiwa TDM 3012
Line: 8lb sensor 0.19mm hooklength
Hook: 14 QM1
Feeder: various Guru feeders, Hybrid, method and pellet
Waggler:
Rod: Drennan Ultralight 12ft
Reel: Daiwa TDM 3012
Line: 4lb sensor 0.17mm hooklength
Hook: 18 Guru Pellet wag
Float: 3AA Dave Harrell Insert waggler
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