As the venue seems to have no shelter whatsoever, and the wind was allegedly 25mph (felt more like 50), although everyone set up a pole, most were quickly discarded as it was hard to hold more than about 7metres. Even one gram floats sat horizontally in the water, so the majority were on the tip within half an hour.
Jamie's "new" Garbolino went straight back in the bag in favour of his margin pole, while Sumo wished he'd done likewise, as he broke a no7 section...oops!
Anyway, on to the fishing, and the winner, from an absolute flier of a peg, was Yozzer Hughes, with 15lb 1oz. His catch consisted of small F1s and carp, and a few quality ide, all taken on red maggot, with micros in the feeder.
The next best weight was that of Eddie 'the bread' Quigley with 13lb 2oz, and a similar mix to the winner. Unfortunately for Eddie, he didn't enter the pools, so second prize went to Arthur Roche. The bluenose caught 12lb 2oz of small carp and ide on legered maggot. See what happens when you fish the full match, instead of going early for the football.
Third, and bucking the feeder trend, was Dave Norman, with a pole caught bag of roach, skimmers and ide weighing 8lb 13oz. Well done Dave.
For the second week running, Dave Cargill sneaked a section win, with 6lb 12oz, nice one partner. Kenny Stuart won the other section with 5lb 14oz.
After showing some good form lately, Chopper decided to handicap himself this week and fished with two blackeyes, and this worked a treat as he was beaten "out of sight".
The golden nugget was a very fair contest this time as both participants drew the worst peg? The warmer weather played into Sumo's hands and he won comfortably.
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Wind, ha more like a fu**in tornado, the G10 had to be put to bed very early or the wupass would have been served haha. Well done Gnome on a sound performance on a hard day. Chopper looked like he had just finished a fight with Rocky and lost. Still a handsome bugger though haha. Lookin forward to Conwy on Sunday. Fed up of using them dry tipped floats. While im on i would just like to congratulate me mate Jamie Hughes on winning the Kamasan Matchman Of The Year today. Class act and a top bloke. I can see some coaching lessons comin on. haha.
ReplyDeleteGod knows you need the coaching matey!!! He he
ReplyDeleteIf anyone wants tips for Conway, I'll take a flyer and say it'll be won on the 6mm banded pellet with 6mm pellet feed both up in the water and on the bottom for carp and skimmers but the places and sections will be roach, roach and more roach. Take 2.5pts of maggot fish 6-10m out at 2-4ft deep, any peg and there's 20-30lb of roach on just about every peg but it can be boring 100-150 fish in 5 hours - even through the ice in the WBAC winter league!!!
Be afraid, be very afraid! My new pole section has arrived so it will be all guns blazing on Sunday at Conwy. Given the right peg I'll put on a masterclass in paste and shallow pellet fishing. I'm off down down the tackle shop now to buy some extra keepnets.
ReplyDeleteit.ll be the first time this year you have used a keepnet properly then he he !!!
ReplyDeletedont know why there was so much comment about the weather! it was a lovely day my mate got his section.well done to eddy(the sneak one in the net)quigley pity you werent in the pools m8 well done gnome(im sure hes got a bucket of fish in his box)hard luck to those who broke pole sections i know what its like. roll on conway
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