Monday 23 May 2016

Sunday 22nd May

I decided to go to manor Farm today for the open.  Split across island and middle pools.
17 people fishing. 
I felt u needed to be on middle to win as it's fishing really well these past few weeks.
Hand in the bag... Island 27.
It's a deep peg which makes them really good in the winter but not so good in the  warmer weather.
I started the match on the method feeder to the island with a bite less 30 minutes.
A quick change to the pole saw me have some liners so picked up the shallow rig.
Had to work really hard slapping the rig, changing to different depths. But began catching steadily.
Throughout the day I had a look down my edge and on my bomb line but only managed a couple of F1s on the bomb.
So persevered shallow and caught odd fish. 
Managed 8 carp and around 15 F1s for 73-10-0 for a section win and second on the lake!
Happy with that from there!
Roll on next weekend!

Saturday 21st May

Today I was going to the Vale golf course fishery.
A new venue for me and was looking forward to it.
After arriving for the draw at 9 o'clock I soon drew my peg and was on the way to peg 6. The end peg was 4 and with my friend Owen Robinson on there I had some good company.
I didn't know how the lake was going to fish so I started on pellets at 8m.
After the first hour no one had caught i and still hadn't had a bite.
I changed to corn on the same line and just kindered in a few grains. This became obvious that corn was that they wanted.
I began getting a few bites but was never solid.
Owen next to me had 3 carp by 2 o'clock and I had 16. So was hoping for a good last hour.
I primed a shorter line and an edge line to try to but didn't get a bite on either of these.
So I decided to go back on my original line for the last 20 minutes and I managed one more small carp.
I weighed in 24-0-0 which put me 4th overall. 
The whole lakes fished hard for some reason.
I felt I did ok considering its the first time I've been here and will deffintly be going back.