Gary's day

After a bit of reshuffling we ended up at Beggars Hall today. Thankfully the weather had warmed up since last weekend; 2c rather than -7c. With the ice having finally melted on Thursday the water was going to be cold

Out of the bag came peg 17 for me and I was pretty happy with this as it is a consistent peg and usually good for a few carp. The day would be simple - just a feeder rod and a bomb rod to set up. A start out on a feeder saw the first hour passing without any signs which was getting worrying. Mark over on peg 16 at the other end of the island was getting plenty of liners but no bites. About 11 Rob on peg 19 and Mark finally had a fish each and it looked like the lake was waking up.

About 12 John Todd popped along to say hello to us all and the tip started pulling round. But there was nothing there. A classic liner. But nothing more when I dropyped the feeder back in the same place.

Mark was still getting liners and now the occasional proper bite and heading into the last 30 mins had 4 carp in the net, Rob had 1 and the rest of us not a sausage. A bit after 2 I had another massive liner followed by a drop back but nothing was there again. Fred then on peg 18 had a good carp. But that was it for me, my first blank for a long time

After a tough day's fishing getting more than 1 bite made all the difference. 1st Mark Halverson 30lbs 7oz, 2nd Fred Hunt 14lbs 15oz and 3rd Rob Calderon 7lbs 11oz. Photo today is Fred with his last gasp carp that took him to 2nd.