Wednesday Open – 9th MayÂ
Steve Sanders (he of KC Angling & KC Carpa floats fame) continued his winning ways yesterday, this time from peg 6 on the New Lake. He fished a little method feeder with pellet on the hook to catch around 15 carp for his 79 lb total. Second man Don switched between cat meat and paste to catch 9 or 10 fish for his 77 lbs. He fished at about 8 metres on the pole. The weather that had been so nice up to about a week ago has now turned really nasty. We had patchy rain throughout the day but the gentle breeze turned into a full blown gale by the end of the match and at the final whistle most of us were pleased to pack up and get inside the cabin for a cup of tea.
Once more New lake didn’t live up to its full potential. Considering that all of the fish from Old Lake are in there together with the New Lake fish it should be solid and there were certainly an awful lot of carp swirling around at half depth. But they’re just not feeding properly and nobody can understand why. I guess that’s why it’s called fishing and not catching.
One last snippet – on last Saturday’s match there was a guy in the draw queue who I was sure that I knew but I just couldn’t place him. In the past I’ve walked around people and read their name from the back of their sponsored clothing but this time no such luck. Eventually I got a chance to peek at the draw list and realised it was an old Dorking member called Rob Mittens. I remember fishing a match on Medley between 2 or 3 tackle shops many years ago. I won it (must have drawn a flyer) and Rob was 2nd. I won a silver trophy and he won a rod….I was so pissed off about that !!. Anyhow Rob drew next to me last week so I asked the inevitable question, “Where you been for the last 30 years ?” and got the answer “working” LOL, just too funny. He explained that in those days he had 3 young kids and that he simply didn’t have the time or inclination to continue competitive fishing. Nowadays his kids have grown up and sadly he lost his wife last year, so he’s going to do some fishing again. He’s very welcome and once he gets himself some modern gear instead of trying to catch carp on a stick float I’m sure he’ll do just fine, anyhow, it’s great to see him back.