Rob's day

Hi All

Beggars Hall this week – and the promise of a moderate breeze turned into a forecast of 40 mph blustery winds on the day. Hopefully after some good weights last Sunday, notably Gary’s 100lb plus, the fish would be in a feeding mood. Conditions were completely different though, and although the pegs up in the bowl and peg 16 were somewhat sheltered, the rest of us had to put up with waves heading down the lake towards the car park bank. Fishing a pellet waggler was out of the question for most. I didn’t really want peg 22 then, on the narrowest part of the lake facing peg 2.

Anyway, started on the feeder, also setting up a pole rig for the right hand side around the sunken tree just in case the wind eased off later. After 45 minutes, casting just off the tree, had a pull round and a small for Beggars 3lb carp landed – next hour or so saw two more carp landed, one of around 6lb and one about 8lb. Rumour had it that Ray was on three carp and Peter two, everyone else was struggling.

Couple of tries on the pole, when the wind dropped for a few minutes produced nothing so ditched that and concentrated on method feeder. Down to the last 30 minutes and started packing the pole away (always a good tactic for a bite) and had two more carp, the last landed on the whistle, so ended with five carp. Gary had a couple in the last hour, but not sure what was happening on pegs 16 and 17. Youngster Rupert who joined us for the first time drew peg 18 but unfortunately did not catch. Hopefully that didn’t put him off too much and we’ll see him again soon –he caught the lake on an off day and wasn’t alone in blanking.

At the weigh in – on the high bank Peter weighed 22lb 5oz for second, Gary’s went 19lb 12oz for third and mine went 33lb 15oz top weight on the bank – and luckily (for me) 22 was also a Golden Peg. On the low bank – only one out of the seven anglers weighed in – Ray had a great result with his carp going 27lb 10oz from peg 5. So Ray, today's photo, took all the pools money with a couple regretting throwing back a few silvers.