Gary's day
After an extra hour in bed with the clocks going back it was Beggars Hall today. Following a miserable Wednesday match struggling to 13oz of bits from a seriously out of sorts Beggars I was hoping for a much better day. Pegs 16-18 were still the ones everyone wanted but it was to be peg 5 for me. Only 2 pegs away from Weds but a better peg. Today I had come prepared with a couple of pints of maggots in case it was tough.
The first hour was a waste of time for me with not a sign on a method feeder or bomb and pellet. Not so on the other side where Fred on 16 and Rob on 17 were into carp from the off. Mark in 18 was having a slower time with just the 1 about an hour in. With nothing out longer it was time to try and get some bites on the pole.
Thankfully there were some roach and perch on the pole lines to keep me busy. It was active fishing with getting a bite needing lots laying in of the rig as the bites only seemed to come as the float settled. And then it happened and I hooked something very much not a roach. After some careful playing and seeing the elastic stretched more than I thought it could a 9lb carp was in the net. Then it was back to the roach and perch. Fred was slowing down but Rob was still getting bites as was Mark now. A couple of quick tries during the day on a method feeder got me another couple of carp whilst I rested the pole swims but the bites came out of the blue. A bonus bream of about 3lb on the pole boosted the silvers but no more carp.
At the weight net the 10lb of silvers boosted me to 35lbs with the rest of our bank fishing poor. As expected 17 and 18 dominated with it coming down to a couple of fish either way with Fred's lost fish costing him.
With the lake being very peggy at the moment we did 2 sections: high and low bank. Low Bank: 1st Gary Pickard 35lbs 4oz and 2nd Jeff Pearson 7lbs. High Bank: 1st Rob Calderon 83lbs 7oz and 2nd Mark Halverson 71lbs 1oz. Picture today is my peg 5 before the off with a grebe out in the middle of the lake and pegs 16 and 17 in view.