Gary's day

Summer seems to be arriving slowly with a hot and sunny day for us at Beggar's Hall. With carp cruising and little wind it looked to be a day on the pellet waggler. Out of the draw bag came peg 18 for me which gave me plenty of water to try and chase down some fish.

As usual, come the whistle for all in the carp had decided not to swim too close to the bank so that was the mugging on the pole sidelined. Feeding one area with pellets and then casting at fish I could see got me an early bite but it quickly fell off. Peter on peg 20 was having a good start with a decent carp in the net after 15 mins or so. Another 15 mins later I had another chance and this one made it to the net as did another for Peter.

Phil on peg 21 was having a frustrating start with plenty of fish cruising amongst the lillies but not wanting to come out to be catchable. Mark on peg 17 and Tony on 16 seemed to be having a slow start.

My day turned out to be very simple in the end: casting at showing fish with a pellet waggler; and a couple of fish on a method feeder where I had been feeding pellets when I saw fizzing there.

Peter was struggling after a great start with Phil now admitting to a couple of fish and Mark now looking to be catching. Tony was not having a great day.

The last hour was trickier with a bit of a breeze and the sun behind me making spotting fish harder. A couple down the margin to finish after bumping a couple of carp had me ending with 13 chunky carp.

The carp were a bit bigger than I expected bringing me over the 100lb mark with 115lbs with Mark's 4 carp coming in at 23lbs and Phil just edging out Peter with his 2 carp. Picture today is the island from my peg before the all in. I think you can just about make out a couple of carp cruising on the edge of the reflections.