Two Pots driving today and arrived 6 minutes late. Drive to
Shipham café took us through Chew Magna to the Airport and down the A38. Steady
easy drive - nearly. Café was unusually quiet. We arrived at the fishery 15
minutes before the draw.
In to the draw bag and out comes peg 1. As most of the
anglers lucky enough to be walking to the other end of the Lake
pointed out that at least the walk was short!
I remember Tony Rixon saying that when he drew the peg a few
weeks back he wished he had fished for Silvers. No brainer for me. I set up a
4x16 Jolly finding that the peg is about a foot shallower than most of the
other pegs I have fished, thinking I could get away with a 4x14, but stuck to
the bigger float. This Lake is unusual in that
it is near enough the same depth per peg two inches form the bank to the other
bank, so no real margin to speak of. However, I suspect if I could fish 16
metres down to the end bank I might have found a more fishable margin. I also
set up the Ronnie rig but was doubtful that the Ronnie’s would feed.
Whilst sorting the bait I spill some water on to the
semi-hard 4’s making most of them mushy. Luckily I could pick out a few to
start with and luckily the sun came out drying out some more. I thought I would
do the Ronnie test and was soon convinced I was right; they weren’t coming out
to play. So on to the Skimmer line starting by fishing at 10 o clock at top-set
plus 3 with semi-hards over micro. As expected I was soon in to a foul hooked
Carp which wasn’t on long. I then had a run of small Skimmers and Hybrids
before hooking an enormous Carp which bored me to a stand still, I have to
confess that when it surfaced trying to swim through my keepnets the heart
started race it was near 20lb than 15lb, I suddenly wanted to land it, alas not
the hook pulled trying to tip his head upwards. I did land two small Carp soon
after.
I had the usual visit from the Gimp who was struggling to
catch Silvers. With two hours to go I had another visitor, this time Ziggy from
peg 5. He said that he was top Silver weight with 15lb with Tony Rixon having
switched from trying to catch Silvers to Carp. I started to smell blood so
switched to top-set plus one which was a distance I could now loose feed. I had
a good run of small hybrids to 6 oz on semi-hards plus a few bonus bigger
Skimmers. I kept them coming until the heavens opened up drowning me for the
second consecutive day.
My two tiny Carp weighed 5lb and my Silvers 26lb 8oz for
second in the Silvers loosing put to Tony who had switched to catching Carp … on
worm!!!
The match was won by Two Pots (pictured right with the
Silvers winner) with 172lb 12 oz from peg 20. Glenn caught on paste over soaked
4’s at 13 metres. His weight was made up of just 24 fish.
The Silvers was won by Tony Rixon (pictured right) with 34lb
5oz from peg 16…see his blog for further details.
Full Result:
- Glenn Bailey 172-12-0 peg 20
- Mike West 134-12-0 peg 9
Top Silvers:
- Tony Rixon 34-05-0 peg 16
- Mike Nicholls 26-08-0 peg 1
- Ziggy 17-0-0 peg 5
Weigh Sheet:
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