This was the start of the Royal Signals Championship for
me, I was paired up with Ben so the team was Ben and Ben… Fate? We met up on the morning, I had had little to
do with him on the run up to the match as I have fished with Ben in the past
and am aware that he can catch fish on his day, we drew pegs 22 and 23 on the
Snake as far as I can remember so once we got to the pegs it was to work.
I showed him a few things like dobbing rigs, simple bait prep
and the like and I was still able to set my kit up well in time. The swims were
only about 7 meters wide so I was going to concentrate my efforts down to the
right hand side of the swim, I set up a method, shallow rig, deck rig across
and a paste rig for down the edge. I got
Ben to set up roughly the same… ish.
So the clubman got to start 30 minutes before the Master, so I got Ben to
start dobbing over the far bank loking for an early fish, I was expecting it to
be hard so 30lb would have been a good weight between us in my opinion. It didn’t take too long and soon Ben had his
first fish on its way to the onion sack.
It was a carp at about 3lb so a good start and there were
plenty of fish showing themselves along the far bank. He had a couple more by the time I got to
start and as he was doing so well I decided to follow suite and started fishing
meat across the far bank. It was obvious
by the fishes reaction that they wanted to be shallow in the heat, which was
starting to become oppressive, so I set up a shallow rig to fish under the far
bank foliage and managed a few fish on this over the first couple of hours.
After this time
the shade in which I had been getting my bites disappeared and the only shade I
had was down the lake to my right, by casting the method tight to the top bank
under the trees I managed another 4 carp and I also managed to mug a couple on
a mugging rig.
Going into the last couple of hours I started to feed my
right hand edge with a mix of 2mm and 4mm pellet with an eye to fish paste over
the top, it never really kicked off though even though I managed a couple of
fish I was soon fishing meat slop up the far bank for another couple of fish in
the last hour and 1 down the edge.
Ben had struggled aswell to get numbers of fish and he
ended up on just over 5kg of fish, I had 14 and a half, this was enough for us
to end up third pair on the lake and 8th pair overall, so plenty of
room for improvement next year.
Kev and Greg smashed it on reptile and Greg (… the
clubman) had enough weight so that Kev didn’t even need to weigh in!!!
What would I do differently?
I think that the method should have been my main line of
attack for the day with the far bank meat as a backup to grab the odd fish
rather than the other way round, I also think I overfed my margins… wonder if I
will learn from it this time?
Tackle used:
Pole Long:
Elastic: Blue Colmic
Line: 0.19mm to 0.15mm
Hook: 2 T175
Float: 0.3g AS4
Pole Long Shallow:
Elastic: Blue Colmic
Line: 0.19mm to 0.15mm
Hook: 18 Guru pellet wag
Float: 0.2g crystal dibber
Pole dobbing:
Elastic: blue Colmic
Line: 0.19mm to 0.15mm
Hook: 18 Guru Pellet wag with baitstop
Float: 0.4g Crystal dibber
Pole Margin:
Elastic: 17H yellow
Line: 0.19mm to 0.17mm
Hook: 5 T175
Float: KC Carpa Margin 4X10
Method:
Rod: Drennan series 7 Carp feeder 10ft.
Reel: Daiwa TDM 3012
Line: 8lb sensor to 0.19mm
Hook: 14 QM1
Feeder: 24g small guru method feeder
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