I love the smell of damp fishing tackle and clothing in the
morning. Luckily it was two Pots Baileys car today.
After a stop at Shipham Café we were on to Avalon Fishery.
This fishery has become one of the top fisheries in the south west, primarily
due to the efforts and management of Vic Bush, but don’t expect the well
stocked fishery to yield the full potential as the fish have been well trained
especially the pristine Common Carp, even if you don’t catch its still an
excellent place to spend the day among the varied wildlife.
In to the draw bag and out comes peg 33 three quarters down
the east bank, where I found myself pegged next to Alan Oram – good company. No
emotion as I didn’t know any better. Judging from yesterdays match the Ronnie’s
were unlikely to feed. However, I still set up the Ronnie rig. Followed by two
paste rigs because Two Pots won the match and the Silvers fishing paste last
match and I thought this might be a way of keeping both options open. The first
paste rig was to be fished at 10 metres out in front and the other a top-set
distance down the RH margin into the tree roots!!
John Bradford came by so passed on the remains of the worms
given to me by Chris Davis – recycling is good.
On the all-in I put a full pot of soaked 4’s in on the 10
metre line, but started on the Ronnie rig with single caster, it didn’t take
long to confirm my suspicions the Ronnie’s weren’t playing and who can blame
them with this terrible weather which is up and down like a yoyo. So it would
be a paste day.
Out on the paste and after 30 minutes my head was done in
due to six consecutive foul hookers none getting captured. I re-fed and had two
Carp on the bounce thinking I had settled them – not. After a few Skimmers, a
Hybrid and a Golden Tench I spent the next two hours just feeding the fish
either through the pot or hook.
I tried the margin where I had fed some week old casters and
had a bite on paste and after one nanosecond I found the hook cast off into the
tree roots, lost hook and the rig was rested until next match.
The upshot was that I persevered for three hours with the
paste and after a good few walks I managed to increase my Carp catch to seven
before the all out.
I lost eight foul hookers and the seven Carp kind enough to
have it in the mouth which weighed 40lb and with my 10lb 8oz of Silvers took my
weight to 50lb 9oz – not anywhere good enough. I think my struggled was due to
the wind tow for two reasons. The first because the distance I fished out
(nearer the bank the greater the tow). The other was because the opposite
island was closest to my bank thus causing a funnelling of the water hence more
tow.
The match was won by Paul Elmes (pictured upper right with some of
his catch) with 109lb 10oz from peg 44. Paul caught on paste at 16 metres.
The Silvers was won by Tony Rixon (pictured right with his
catch of Skimmers) with 39lb 8oz from peg 40. Tony caught on worm fished …see
his blog for the bow by blow account.
Full Result:
- Paul Elmes 109-10-0 peg 44
- Mike West 99-04-0 peg 29
- Glenn Bailey 97-05-0 peg 30
- Alan Oram 88-04-0 peg 32
- Ray Cooper 84-14-0 peg 24
- Vic Bush 84-13-0 peg 37
Top Silvers:
- Tony Rixon 39-08-0 peg 40
- Vic Bush 32-12-0 peg 37
- Ziggy 27-12-0 peg 28
Weigh Sheet:
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