Water: Rich brown with 16ft breakers (in my peg anyway).
Peg: 27
Baits: 4mm feed pellet, 6mm & 8mm expanders sensas crazy bait red broundait and meat
Weight: 9lb something
Well conditions were far from perfect today. I stood at the car park on my first club match thinking crikey I wish I had a cooked breakfast this morning, oh and of course how the hell am I going to present a bait in this.
I decided to go for a anything that swims and can fit a 6mm pellet in its gob approach and found 8ft of water at 7m to attack as this was the limit of holding my pole in these conditions. Second approach was to pile in groundbait into the edge and fish big chunks of meat over the top to snare some of the bigger carp towards the end of the match.
Rigs I set up:
Pellet on the deck was a 0.8g Maver Invincible series 7 shotted with a spread bulk of no 8s and 2 no 10 back shots. This was on a 0.17 powerline to 0.15 powerline hooklength tied to a B911 size 16. Due to conditions this was set the float bristle length overdepth and half a tub of bristle grease to stop it sinking into the waves. This was set to soft set black hydro which lands anything with a pulla
I also set up a couple of shallow lines which did not produce so I'm not going to talk about them!!
Margin line was a 0.2g Hillybilly Billybob undershotted so the meat took the bristle to 1cm above the raging weir pool I had in my margins. Line was 0.19 powerline straight through to a Kamasan Animal size 14, and this was fished to Red Hydro.
Started off kinder potting squeezed balls of 4mm feed pellets on my out line and fishing a 8mm over the top to wait for the bigger residents which resulted in 2 gudgeon. Not what was expected, a switch to the 6mm propmted the crucuans and f1s to have ago and in the first hour and half I put 3lb of bits and pieces in my net. To my left maggots were being pinged in and that killed my swim cold. Little interest for the pellets on the deck, shallow, shorter or longer than where I was fishing. A solitary skimmer and a 2oz scale from a foul hooked monster was all I gained for my troubles.
Onto the margin line that I had been feeding with loose groundbait, first put in and the float dibs and before it dob it shoots under and I am met with solid resistance. A beligerant fight insues and a snare the 5lb beasty in no time. Straight back in and the float keeps traveling down, after thinking the meat had pulled it down the slope I lift gently in to a funny shaking fish. It zigged and zagged around leading me to thinking it is a tench however out came a load of fins and not a lot of fish. Getting very excited after seeing everyone else struggle I go back down the edge only to be sitting in hope that my float would then sail away. Both edges didn't produce a touch for best part of an hour and half and my pellet line just produced some other bits and pieces. Overall a little disapointing but not too bad with the other weights coming from the pool and with some anglers failing to catch all day. Winning weight of 16lb was done on the maggot catching the silvers that are so prolific on the venue.
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