Phil's day

Good morning to all. The Weds club fished its monthly interclub match against Abbey Cross at their lake at Hunters Hall. I drew peg 5 not a peg I know but you never know. I started off on feeder with corn for the first 20 minutes then tried worm as it's known as a bream venue but still nothing so onto my pole line. I had previously baited up two swims 1 to my extreme right and another to my left at 10 meters. I used a silvers rig 4.5 lb main line with a 2.5 lb hooklengh and 18 match hook and 6 to 8 elastic and the smallest bits of sweetcorn I could find in my box for hook bait.

Got a couple bites and 4 or 5 rudd and roach as this was my plan for this rig then the float went under and struck the bite and away the float went half way across the lake. I thought I had hooked a tench but no, a carp, this was going to take a while to land it would be down to a bit of luck. I let the elastic do most of the work I got it into landing net distance then I saw it for the first time and wondered how was I going to land it. I got it in the net twice and both times it swam out so by this time it was tired and so was I and third time lucky it went in and stayed in the net. It was about 14lb common wow how lucky was I, went on to catch a couple pound of roach and rudd nothing of any size but been busy all day until the heavens opened up and killed it dead. The rain stopped just in time for weighing in and I weighed in 16lbs 10oz

1st John Carter with 38lb 11oz, 2nd Phil Whitmill with 16lbs 10oz, 3rd Ray Gibson with 14lbs 9oz (1 carp, again a common) and 4th Martin Adams with 12lbs 11oz all rudd and roach. Abbey won the day with 59 points to Stortford's 52 points well done to the team good effort. The pic is Ray Gibson who paid a quick visit to my peg before the off.