Saturday 9th April

Manor farm open. Island and middle pool. 18 fishing.
I did fancy drawing on island as it's one of my favourite lakes but middle is good and normally wins.
In the draw bag and out came 26 on middle.
This is a good area and last time I drew 25 middle I won the match.
After getting to my peg my approach was clear.
Bomb.
Waggler.
X4 pole rigs:
1 on the deck at 13m
1 half depth
1 shallow rig
1 edge rig.
Started on the bomb and had an f1 within 20 minutes and no one had caught. I then had a look on my 13m deck line and began catching a few f1s steadily but was getting liners so increased the pinging.  I went shallow and had a few fish but wasn't prolific.
I then started to struggle to catch so went out on the Waggler where I'd been pinging 6mm pellets and caught well on this for 2 and a half hours.
I then began feeding my edge line and had a look on this at 2:00 without a bite.
So went back out on the Waggler and hoped I'd catch late down the edge. I continued to put another 5 f1s in the net before going down the edge last 40 minutes.
In those 40 minutes I managed to catch 6 carp down the edge.
I managed to weigh 116-0-0 for 1st overall!

Sunday 3rd April.

Alders spring league round 2. 

Peg 21 on ash lake. 

5 of the best pegs on the lake in my section so felt I needed to catch really well, this wasn't the case, 

Weighed 31-0-0 for last in my section! 

Must try harder. 

Saturday 2nd March.

Manor farm open, peg 13 windmill, I drew peg 16 on Wednesday and it fished really hard so I kept that in mind. 

Started off on the pole at 13m on pellets, and had a steady first 30 minutes. But it was clear it wasn't fishing great. 

I had a feeling I may of caught shallow so I started to increase my pinging and then spent the rest of the day shallow. I had to work really hard for my fish. 

I had 4 chub shallow on pellet and around 12 F1s to weigh 54-0-0 putting me 2nd overall. 

Thursday 31st March.

Peg 25 middle pool at manor farm. 

Really like this peg. 

Caught ealrly on the deck on the pole. Then had a few on the waggler and finished on the pole at 13m. 

Weighed 74-14-0, 

Put me second overall. 

Wednesday 30th March.

Peg 16 windmill. 

Struggled all day for 27-4-0. 

27-8-0 won the section. 

Monday 28th March

Day 3 of my 3 day weekend. 

Back to manor farm for the open match and was praying for a draw. 

For the past 6 months I've been fishing manor farm I've always wanted to draw peg 6 on island.

And today was that day! 

It hasn't won a match for ages but I felt it was worth a few bites.

I only kitted up rods as it's an out and out feeder peg. 

I spent the first hour on the feeder tight to the island and had 3 fish for around 12lb. 

The next 1 and a half hours I spent 3/4 the way across on the Same feeder and put a further 15 fish in the net. 

At the half way stage I had been priming a bomb line all day and dropped on it to only catch a stockie so back out to the island for 1 more. 

30 minutes later I dropped back on my bomb line and it was solid! 

Caught really well last 1 hour and 30 on this. 

I think leaving it till late on was best as I could prime it and get them feeding confidently. 

I clicked 37 fish in total. 

To weigh 119-0-0 enough for 1st overall. 

Had a really nice day just fishing a simple rod match and learnt loads! 

Roll on next time! 

Sunday 27th March

Day 2 of my weekend, back to manor farm, drew peg 19 Middle pool. I did quite fancy it for a few. 

Started on the bomb and had 4 carp by 2:00 so had a look on the pole and had a few more. 

Finished with 43-4-0 for 6th in the match. 

Must try harder! 

Roll on tomorrow!