Gary's day

At Sunday's draw it felt like Summer had disappeared as we were met with drizzly rain.  With a few of us there the draw was going to be important and out came peg 16 for me.  Third time on the bounce and with a bit of a chance.

Up went feeder, bomb and pellet waggler rods plus the pole for the margins.  Being at the far end of the dam bank I would have no idea how the rest of the lake was fishing as the only people I could see were 3 people pleasure fishing in the far end of the lake.  Fred was nextdoor on 17 but the bankside vegetation meant I could not see him.

At the off it was a feeder towards the island and feeding a bomb/waggler line with pellets.  An hour in I had 2 small, for Beggars, carp for about 7lb and had just lost a much bigger fish near the net.  A go on the pellet waggler got me a quick carp but then nothing more.  A try on bomb and pellet underneath gave me some liners but no bites.

Back to the island found another couple of carp but the gaps were getting much longer.   Coming into the last 2 hours it was time to try the margins with some paste.  It took a worryingly long time to get an indication before the float shot under and I was into a carp; which fell off.  Thankfully they came back and most stayed on after that.  It was a busy last hour.

Mark was doing the weigh in today and as he walked past to start on the other bank he mentioned Peter on peg 20 had been doing well on pellet waggler and was cagey on his day.  Rob over on peg 6 had also had a good finish with all his fish coming in the last hour.  Well done to Mark from peg 19 with 111lbs on the feeder.

1st Mark Halverson 111lbs 12oz, 2nd Gary Pickard 95lbs 7oz and 3rd Rob Calderon 71lbs 1oz. Picture today is peg 16 and if you look to the top left you can just see one of the many kites flying around today.