Liam Dennick Fishing

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Sunday 28th August - Ivy House open match

Today I decided to go to ivy house for the open match.
With 21 anglers fishing we were spread over the match lake and Willows.
I really wanted to draw on the match lake. Somewhere in the middle of the lake.
I drew peg 4. This is a good area. It's not quite in the middle of the lake so I'd of preferred peg 5 but I fancied peg 4.

I just set up to fish a simple pellet match.
Paste short at the bottom of the shelf.
0.3 gram float. 0.18 F1 spider mainline to an 0.15 hook length. With the 2.6mm colmic Hollow elastic.

I also decided to fish pellets at 14.5m where I'd fish loose feed pellets and fish shallow or paste over the top.

I began the match short and foul hooked one and lost it within the first 2 minutes.

I then went out to 14.5m and began catching a few carp steadily on paste. At around 2 and a half hours in I had about 4 carp and a bream.

Gary Donachie on the opposite bank was catching well and I think he had around 7 fish so I was behind. And had to do something to catch him up.
I picked up my shallow rig and really tried to make it work as normally the fish here are bigger shallow.

Soon enough. After 15 minutes of really working I began catching the odd fish shallow and they were deffintly a better stamp.

Going into the last hour I had around 12 or 13 carp and was hoping i could catch a few more to try and bump up my weight.

I thought I could get into a bit of a rhythm by catching 1 on the paste then nick one shallow but this didn't really go to plan. I only managed 1 carp last hour and somehow hooked 4 and lost them all!

I managed to weigh in 79-0-0 which after packing up and going back to the cafe I found out it was enough to win!

I'm hindsight I felt I should of not bothered with the short line as I wasted to much time trying to catch on that and I think its to shallow on this bank to catch that short but It should help my approach for next time.

Monday, 15 August 2016

Saturday 13th August - Manor farm open match

My plan for today was to go to Manor Farm for the open match.
With it being on my 2 favourite lakes I was really looking forward to it.

Middle and Ash pools were in.

Normally middle will win as the carp feed more in there but ash pools one of my favourite lakes and is full of F1s.

I drew peg 7 on ash pool, a peg I've never drawn in a match but always wanted to. This is a good F1 area. With the airator to your left at around 17m.

I based my attack on fishing shallow all match as the fish were already topping all over the lake so I fancied it.

Set up 5 shallow rigs.
2 decks rigs and a Waggler Incase they backed off my pole line.

I started the match at 14.5m on the deck and caught 2 F1s straight away.
I was having liners so picked up my shallow rig...

And I didn't look back. I caught solidly on this for 2 hours after fine tuning the rig and feeding and changing depths when it went quiet.

Feeding was best by firing in 10 pellets at a time and as the day went on it got more and more and the fishing got better.

Going into the last hour I had 65 F1s and 1 big mirror Carp. So was hoping for a good last hour.

And I did.... I couldn't get in quick. And I thought Chris Cameron opposite had a similar weight to me and we were fish for fish last hour.

So I stepped up my elastic and really caught well.
I thought Chris was beating me so I tried to catch him up.

I clicked 88 F1s and 1 carp so I had 23 F1s in the last hour which was good!
I fed quite heavily to keep them there.

I manged to weigh in 222-12-0 to win the match. A personal best match weight for me.
Chris Cameron had 202-0-0 but I thought it would be closer than that!

I think I fed around 3 and a half pints of pellets so for over 200lb of fish that isn't really a lot I don't think.

My gear for the match was
COLMIC AIRON F44. 14.5m.
Colmic Yellow and Blue Hollow elastic.
0.152 F1 Spider mainline to and 0.13 F1 spider hook length. Then fished 0.152 Spider hook length last hour.

Had probably the best days fishing I've ever had today!

Until next time!

Friday, 12 August 2016

Thursday 11th August - Manor farm open

Today I decided to go to manor farm for the open match.
With 20 anglers fishing all on windmill pool it was going to be a tough match!
I drew peg 18.
This is the deepest end of the lake around 10ft at 13m.
I had a very inviting tree to my right as well so decided to fish to that with 17.5m of my Colmic F44.
I began the match catching well at 13m on the deck and had to keep chasing fish up and down catching through the water.
I did have a look down the edge a few times and only caught a few F1s and an 8lb mirror.
I caught a lot of small F1s between a pound and 2 pound and a few bonus carp in amongst them.
I weighed 70-12-0 enough to win the match!
Roll on next time!