Bit of road rage this morning
from Bela. Some kids in their 1000 cc lawn mover tail gating him. We caught up
with them at the traffic lights in Shepton Mallet and when they saw Bela they
did the sensible thing and drove off through the red lights. Canards breakfast
wasn’t that good today. RIP the poor lad that got kill by hit and run driver
this morning at Canards Well.
Hung back in the draw queue
hoping for a peg on Carey and got my wish with peg 87. Happy with this as there
are usually a few Ronnie’s to be caught; however, the water did look a tad
clear. For company I had Nigel Bartlett on peg 88 and Geraint Powell on peg 86.
I set up a 4x16 to fish at 10
metres each side of the dark patch where the depth was near enough to need a
tiny adjustment, a 4x10 for the RH margin I had cleared of a young Willow and
others stuff, next the Ronnie rig and finally the GB feeder in case. I fed the
two long lines one with neat GB and the other caster and DR’s, some casters
were potted in the margin. I started on the Ronnie rig and caught reasonable
well. Geraint was catching small Skimmers so I tested my Skimmers lines and
also could catch small Skimmers (hope they grow on) but decided that the
Ronnie’s could produce the same weight as I could catch them quicker so fed the
Skimmers again and went back on the Ronnie’s. What is it with Carp and casters
they definitely prefer them than pellet. The Ronnie’s wanted to feed but they
were continually disrupted by Carp. Getting the feed rate right was very
difficult. I think tt’s the sound of the casters hitting the water that
initially attracts the Carp especially with no Carp slayers feeding pellet. So
it was a question of catching a few Ronnie’s until they were backed off and
switching to the tiny Skimmers. I did set up the 4 metre whip but after just a
couple of fish I would hook a Carp which on a flick-tip can be fun! I think I
was holding my own along the end bank until the last hour when the Carp pissed
the Ronnie’s right off and Geraint had a great last hour adding about 15lb of
decent Skimmers on expander over GB to his catch (pictured right). Another good young angler.
I weighed 17lb 9oz for
section 4th. And for the tenth time this year being ounced out of
some coin this time by 2oz! My fault this time because there was a few fish I
should have netted but choose to nearly swing. Perhaps I should be more patient with the Skimmers.
“Some say that his first name really is “The”,
and that if he went on Celebrity Love Island they’d all be pregnant, including
the camera men. All I know its The
Trig.”
Craig Edmonds won the match
with 32lb 14oz from fancied peg 78. Trig caught small Skimmers on pole and some
better Skimmers on the waggler on banded hard pellet.
Considering the conditions
the venue fished well for Silvers with most anglers catching double figures.
Full Result:
- Craig Edmonds 32-14-0 peg 78
- Vince Brown 31-0-0 peg 77
- Stu White 30-09-0 peg 96
- Paul Faiers 30-06-0 peg 123
- Geraint Powell 29-02-0 peg 86
- Gary O’Shea 28-02-0 peg 56
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