Weather: 20C-22C sunny.
Water: More mud than water
Peg: 20
Baits: 4.5mm fishery pellet, 4.5mm and 6mm van den eynde marine and ringers expanders and red maggot (paste was in the bag but never came out)
Weight: 116lb
I wanted a few things from this match; a ton weight, to qualify for king of sections if I don't frame, to beat Mick Whatling in the league knockout and to beat Keith Holt in the singles knockout competition.After some strange pegging of the pool saw a couple of anglers with a great deal more space than others I got to peg 20 between Mike 'sex god' Hope and my knockout opponent Mick 'foul mouth' Watling.
Approaching my peg I started to try to set my platform up in the water but Mich quite rightly pointed out that I was still as drunk as a skunk so he wouldn't advise this tactic. On to the rigs, quite simple today, pellet on top kit and pellet on top kit + no4 section. Job done. Rigs were all maver incible series 7 pencils on 0.15mm powerline to the same diameter hooklength with a 16 B911 or a banded pellet hair rigged on a size 18 B911. I also set up a shallow rig on a homemade 0.1g pencil float to the same 0.15mm powerline. I wanted to start on grey hydro and change to black hydro or double 8 when bagging but the fish were bolting so much I had to many pulls on the later so stuck with grey throughout the match.
I plumbed a line a top kit out between my nets and then one at a top kit and no4 section straight in front of me. Match started slow with some not catching until 15mins into the match and Mick next to me having a horrendous time and using some exceptional expletives to demonstrate his frustration. I was catching steady on the deck on 4mm expanders, the new van den eynde marine expanders are light which matched the coppens feed pellets perfectly.
I caught steady thtoughout match having to swap to maggot on occasions to keep the speed of my catches quick enough. The last hour and half was where the damage was done, I shallowed up to avoid foul hookers that were a problem and got the fish at 18inches a top kit out. The fish were coming fast and responding to feed, I fed nearly 4 pints of pellet in last 90mins of the match and put 50lb in the net in this time. I was connecting with the better fish shallow and had a number of 3lb-4lbers in the last hour.
I was chuffed with getting 116lbs from a unrenowned area on wyatts and also being squashed in with other anglers who didn't get big weights. I also qualified for king of sections and beat the 2 knockout opponents!! Result!!
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