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18 fishing today so we were spread out over the two lakes, so no real bad pegs to draw today, the peg i fancied was 31 and owner mike duckett nearly drew it for me as i ended up with 32 as my pitch for the day, and for company on 31 i had tom thick who i didnt expect to make to many mistakes, even though he was telling me that he was only fishing for silvers on soft pellet ,you cant help but hook a few carp on this peg no matter how you fish.
i decided on an all out hard pellet attack so three rigs were put together, a 4x14 for the deeper water about 2 mtrs off the tree,s, a shallow rig just in case they came up and a 4x10 rig for on top of the shelf along the end bank, all rigs had a b960 size 16 on .16 line.
at the start i cupped in some 6,s at 16 mtrs in front of the tree,s and some on the ledge up the edge, i went straight out with a 8mm in the band and i did expect a bite fairly quickly but all i had were a couple of funny indications from what i think were silvers having a bit of a pop at the pellet, after 30 mins i had had 1 f1 and a fouled skimmer and it was going to be a difficult day, even tom on 31 couldnt get a bite on his soft pellet at 13 mtrs so he gave up on that line and went up onto the island shelf in about 2 feet of water and the response for him was instant with good chub taking a likeing to his expander, at times he never had time to drop his micro,s out of his toss pot before his elastic was coming out, back to my peg and by now i was firing a few 6,s over both lines but i still couldnt get a response apart from a fouled carp which made it into the tree,s , i could see fish moving on the end bank so i thought that would be my banker for some action, i continued in the deep water for another 30 mins for another f1 a tench and a skimmer but then roach started to take the 8mm pellet which wasnt a good sign, so i went up the edge on the shallow rig as i could see a couple of fish moving in the gress, two quick carp and that was my lot shallow up the edge, by now the sun was out and these landsend fish can be a bit spooky as they have seen it all before and with the sun behind us on this bank the pole was casting a shadow over the catching area which i think unsettles them, so i went out into the deep water but shallow to see if the sun had encoureged some fish to come up but 20 mins of rig slapping only produced 1 f1, so i tried back on the deck but the roach were still there being a nusience, but an even bigger pest was at the next peg in the shape of tom thick who was still putting quality silvers into his net with the chub having a real liking for his soft pellet along with some good skimmers, with only 2 hours to go i only had three carp and my silvers so i refed right into the branches of the tree,s as my only option was to try some suicide fishing changed to a 4x12 rig as it was a bit shallower and cupped in bait instead of using a catty, the response was more positive as began to get liners and catch the odd carp and i never lost any in the branches so perhaps i should have done it earlier, the lasat 2 hours for tom had got harder but i still reckoned he had over 50lb of silvers plus 4 carp, i ended up with 9 carp and about 10lb of silvers but with the carp being on the small side i wasnt expecting to do any good today especcialy when we heard tha tour new polish mate ziggy on 15 had 40 carp and andy france on 25(he moaned them on)had had a good day on the fi.s plus some carp aswell, with the weather i really thought it would fish a lot better but bites for most were hard to get, in the end ziggy full and proper name zozislaw slowinski won with 155lb on peg 15 fishing pellet shallow at 13 mtrs
2nd andy france 114.3 peg 25
3rd tom thick 91.14 peg 31
4th alan oram 67.13 peg 28
5th tony rixon 64.9 peg 32
6th tim clark 44.13 peg 38
silvers went to tom thick with 58lb of chub and skimmers
sunday we are going to chilton trinity again but this time widmarsh is the lake which more a traditional(some say proper)lake so it will be interesting but carp will still win it but there are plenty of skimmers and roach to target on the worm or caster and groundbait, if anyone is interested ring me at the shop to book in on 01179517250