Latest Match News – 20th August 2007
The normal Wednesday Open was moved to New & Old Lakes because the RAF had a match on Top Lake. It was interesting to compare results with those of the previous day (the floater match). Conditions were better on Wednesday, less wind and definitely a lot less rain. Results proved that chum mixer wins hands down !!. Malcolm Fowler won it from peg 2 on New Lake with 87 lbs and I was lucky enough to be second with 75 lbs from peg 10 on the New Lake. When I drew it I was highly vociferous about the merits of that peg (it’s tucked into a bay that can be devoid of fish on occasions). Mick in the cabin told me to fish along the bank to my right at about 10 metres. That was lucky because the day before a combination of 3 anglers had managed to break my 6th section completely in two whilst trying to separate sections stuck together in the rain, so I was armed with my 10 metre Maver H10 edge pole. I started on the method feeder but with no bites in the first hour and a half I decided to give the edge peg a go before departing for an early bath. Fed a big pot of corn and first cast the float buried and an 8 pounder was safely netted. It got a bit quiet in the middle of the match, in fact I nodded off a couple of times but I picked up a few more fish towards the end of the match to weigh in not many carp for 75 lbs. The moral of the story….don’t bitch about your peg until AFTER the match, you’ll feel awfully sheepish going back for the results if you’ve caught after bad mouthing the peg to all and sundry.
Saturday’s match on the Top Lake fished pretty well in dreadful conditions with a strong wind, teeming rain and not at all warm. I was lucky enough to draw peg 23 on the back spit and fished the little method feeder all day for 178 lbs. Don fished cat meat in peg 8 for 140 lbs and Terry Harrison also weighed in a “ton” from peg 25 on the spit. All in all good weights in pretty poor conditions.
I’m off on holiday on Wednesday. I’m going to British Columbia on the sunny west coast of Canada (actually it might well be cold and raining, their weather is much the same as ours). I’ve got a few days on Vancouver Island fishing for Salmon and Halibut in the ocean then I move over to the mighty Fraser River on the mainland for some sturgeon fishing. I don’t want to hijack the Willinghurst site but If I get round to writing anything I’ll post a link here.
Ross