Following the recent spell of arctic weather, you could be forgiven for questioning the sanity of those who chose to fish this match. An apparent slight thaw hadn't really happened, and a frozen lake greeted us. Good job Wirral had fished the previous day, and broke the ice on enough swims for us. Most needed to be broken again, but with a lot less effort. A big thanks to Gary Chambers for clearing the pegs again. Two swims had remained ice free, due to every duck on the lake being in one place. The lucky anglers to draw these were Yozzer and Jamie. I say lucky only because there was little or no ice to clear. Them bloody ducks were a noisy bunch, and spent most of the day splashing around in the water.
It certainly didn't affect the fishing as Yozzer ran out the winner with 25lb 08oz of maggot caught roach from a 5m line. (I would have fished long but the ice wouldn't let me).
Runner-up, and thoroughly enjoying himself, was big Neil Paterson. Not only did he catch skimmers, F1s and some nice looking goldfish, which tipped the scales at 18lb 12oz, he was like a kid in a sweet shop watching a robin sit in his bait box eating maggots. Nice job Neil, or should I say David Attenboro', good to see you enjoy the day out.
Just for once John Heald used his vast venue knowledge, and decided not to fish for carp. A rare sight at the weigh in was John bringing 18lb 04oz of roach to the scales, which was enough to get him on the podium. Well done JH, a sight to behold, especially seeing you impail a maggot on a size 12 paste hook!
With further weights of 16, 2x 14, and a couple of 12s, everyone admitted that it was worth the journey, and had an enjoyable day's fishing.
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Great blog Yozzer, would have commented sooner but only just recovered from concussion after you closed your boot lid on my head!
ReplyDeleteStill finding splinters in the boot! Hopefully knocked some sense in, fancy carp fishing on a roach venue.
ReplyDeleteMy feeding pattern was designed to catch 30lb of carp in the last hour but I was devastated to find that for the first time in months we were only fishing five hours instead of six.
ReplyDeleteYozzer - that peg is nearly as "hot" as "The Point" no wonder it was still ice free.
ReplyDeleteIt won the day before as well and when I was packing up I fed it with "slow release" mariduckyu groundbait to keep our feathered, noisy, pesky, annoying, fecking pain in the butt, web footed friends around to stop the ice reforming for you.
You mentioned going 50/50 cos your backs sore with your other partner always being carried he he who could that be!!
Simo, we both know there are no fliers or bad pegs.............my partner was next to me and learned so much for next time. In fact if I hadnt spent so much time coaching I could have done 30lb
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