As I drove to Hartleylands my thoughts were on one thing and one thing only......5 points. I was already 2 points off a maximum after dropping my worst 1 point result so with 4 matches left out of 6 I would need 4 section wins to come anywhere near the top of the league. The competition is harder this year and with my mind not really focused on fishing at the moment I was hoping for a warm, calm day and a half decent peg.........and then the heavens opened and dashed my hopes of a comfortable day in the sun.
As I pulled up the rain had eased and the sun was drying things up. Perhaps there was light at the end of the tunnel. Nick anounced that he wanted to draw his own peg which I thought was probably a good idea just for change so out popped 33 for him followed by a load of moaning and groaning as I whipped out peg 8 which apparently was going to win the match hands down (yeh right, i've heard that one before and with most pegs capable of winning I wasn't as excited about the peg as some seemed).
Off I went around the lake and as I walk up the spit I noticed the wind pushing through the islands right in to my face..............great (not). I stood there and told myself that if I wanted 5 points then I would have to bite the bullet and get the method rod out but as usuall the thought of fishing the method all day for small fish had a more than passing similarity to watching paint dry whilst having your teeth extracted without anaesthetic. I looked long and hard at the island and memories started coming back to me about fishing this peg before in a strong wind and being able to draw the fish away from the island and fishing the pellet wag out in to open water. If I could do this today then I wouldn't have the problem of casting up against a very snaggy island with a very uneven bank in blustery wind. So my mind was made up, the wag it would be with 8mm pellets. The shallow pole didn't get a look in due to the wind in my face (too hard to feed accurately and frequently for my liking) and the method rod stayed in the bag. I did set up a bomb rod which goes hand-in-hand with waggler fishing and 1 margin rig and 1 deck rig for fishing to my right at 11m as a back-up line to rest the other swims.
As I was casting and clipping up I noticed the bloke opposite chucking a waggler up to the same corner of the island so I was now more convinced about my approach because there a few anglers that feed as much as me on the wag and I was hopefull of drawing fish away from the island in to open water where I would have no competition. I needed heavy floats for the job at hand and a number of catapults on stand-by because they were going to get a proper hammering today with the wind problem!
For company today I had a pretty tough section. Paul 'the magician' Kell on peg 4, John 'my peg's crap' Pantry on peg 6 and John Robinson on peg 9 (not sure of a nick name for John yet as he's just a very nice chap without anything really to take the piss out of.............but I'll keep looking! So, with Paul Kell in my section (who can turn a puddle of piss in to a swarming black mass of hungry carp) and 2 other very handy anglers, life was not going to be easy but I felt comfortable that for the first time this year I actually knew that what I was doing was the right thing.
So on to the whole plan then, 2 waggler rods at 12” deep and 24” deep, a bomb rod to fish the conker, a margin rig for under the tree and a full depth rig at 11m. Both pole lines would be fed with corn and fished with mussels and I do recall having a few fish from under the left hand tree the last time I fished peg 8.
Now, as I was chatting to John Pantry just before the whistle, that blustery wind suddenly changed (as it often does here) in to the mother of all gales and my mind uncontrollably flashed back to thoughts of the method feeder...............but only for a split second!
So, the match was started and after feeding my 11m line I began spreading pellets over an area the size of a netball pitch and chucked out the waggler to around 6' off the island. I started catching right away and it looked like I could be in for at least a decent day's fishing. Then I noticed John 'nice bloke' Robinson catching very quickly on the method and quite quickly it was obvious that we were going to be having our own little competition (which is quite nice seeing as you can almost pick each other's noses from pegs 8 and 9).
An hour in to the match and I knew John had more fish than me but he insisted that they were a lot smaller than my fish (which is usually the case here). My clicker showed 15lb in the first hour which isn't too bad as I was still building the swim and gradually fishing further and further away from the island.
At the half way mark I had 60lb on the clicker so was now catching around 25lb an hour which wasn't too bad given the fact that the wind was taking my pellets all over the shop but I was concerned that John was ahead of me and I kept thinking about the 11m line and whether it was soild with good sized fish...........but I told myself 'no' and persevered with the waggler.
Around this time John was concerend about the size difference between our fish and I mentioned to him that it is normal for shallow fish to be larger than method fish here so he gave the waggler a go and he started catching well but eventually concluded that he couldn't keep up with me and was better off on the method. I'm not sure whether I would have preffered him to stay on the waggler though because I can usually out-fish most people on the waggler (I did say MOST though).
Time was now ticking down and during the last hour I was itching to take a look under the tree but still I told myself 'no........no no no no NO'. While I was catching I should stay on it and not distract myself with what 'could be'. Still I was catching regularly and now I was about 20-30 feet off the island corner but I wasn't going to win the match, I simply couldn't keep things tight enough.
With 10 minutes to go then I eventually gave in and stuck a mussel on the hook and swung it under the tree. WHALLOP!.........the float went under and a nice 6lb ghosty was in the net. A couple of minutes to go and WHALLOP!.......... a decent 3 pounder joined it just before the whistle went............worth a look then as 9lb in 10 minutes was my best catch rate all day!
And so the scales came round with the words Paul 'the magician' Kell 141lb written on the board.........BUGGER! I reckoned on 125lb and could see John Pantry had already weighed that in and was now wondering whether I would scrape any decent points at all. My nets went 131lb to my relief and John 'nice bloke' Robinson had my bum hole tightened as he got close.............VERY close, with 128lb. I remember saying to John that those last 10 minutes under the tree swung it for me and gave me 4 valuable points.
So, I still couldn't win my section, I still couldn't draw a nice 'mill pond' peg but yes, at least I can now call him John 'bum clencher' Robinson!!!
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Mussels at Shannon's 21-08-10
Photo courtesy of Keith Ashby
Having only fished this venue once in spring when it wasn’t fishing too well, I was looking forward to fishing Shannon’s in the summer as reports suggested it was fishing well. Being only 30 minutes down the road and a picturesque venue holding plenty of sizeable carp, it is ideal for a change from my usual venues and a chance to perhaps do well on a venue that is quite new to me.
At Shannon’s you can draw various different types of peg from open water, corner pegs, short island pegs and long island pegs so a variety of methods and baits could work although I was hoping for open water so I could use my running line methods. I therefore took 2 pellet waggler rods, a bomb rod, a method rod and my pole holdall. In my carryall I had plenty of 8mm pellets for open water, 4mm pellets if I drew an island peg, loads of corn and half a kilo of cooked mussels plus groundbait if I needed the feeder.
At the draw Bill the match organiser asked me to hold the bag of peg numbers and so I asked for a volunteer to draw mine and was handed peg 12 which is 16m to the island and most definitely not my sort of peg. Looking at it, I had an overhanging tree to the right hand side of the island with lily pads directly opposite and a gap to the left of them. I could see movement in both areas either side of the lilies so decided to feed both with 4mm pellets via a catty. I also had an overhanging tree to my right hand margin which looked promising and rushes to my left that would be worth feeding.
With this number of swims available I decided to ignore the track unless I needed it later and decided to feed both island swims and both margins. Plumbing up, I had around 2’ of depth around 2’ from the island and away from the overhanging vegetation, around 4’ down the middle and about 3’ down the margin under the tree. This was on the near slope but directly under the branches. My rigs for across and in the margins both had NG XT Margin floats with the shot bulked around half depth and laying on a few inches. This would allow me to position the bait on the shelves or lay-on further up the shelves. I also like fishing over-depth in the margins to help avoid foul hookers by keeping the rig line away from the hook and feed bait. I also set up an NG Finesse 0.3g for down the track on the drop in case I needed to fish there. Rig line was Fox Micro Plus 0.18 with 0.18 hook lengths and hooks were Drennan Carp Match for hair rigged bands and Maver MT3 for down the edge. A few blokes have commented that the Finesse seems too delicate for catching big carp but in open water they are a dream to fish with and I have not damaged one yet! They are superb at fishing on the drop or half depth with light baits or at full depth with larger baits, especially when bites might be a bit shy.
My plan was to feed both island swims with 4mm pellets by catapult and feed corn down both margins by hand and this is exactly what I did when the whistle went. My first put-in was to the right hand island swim and it resulted in a foul hooker which proceeded to take me up and down the far bank before the hook pulled as it kited under a tree further down the peg. Then after re-feeding I had another foul hooker which did the same and after 20 minutes I had nothing to show for my efforts. Then finally a carp hooked properly came to the net but neither island swims were fishing well, probably due to the foul hooked fish. I then decided to drop in under the margin tree and had a lump immediately but didn’t get any further indications so I carried on feeding the island swims and the margins and rotated around them all. I also decided to start feeding down the track at 11m to try and bring something to life and I managed a couple of smaller fish there but again nothing prolific.
Things really weren’t going well and by 2 o’clock I only had 33lb registered on my clicker and only an hour and a half to go. This was becoming a nightmare. Having fed the margins all day I was hoping that one of them would come to life as a last resort and the tree to my right looked the most likely. I dropped my rig in and the float buried immediately. It was another double figure lump. My second put-in resulted in another take along with a third. I re-fed under the tree and then tried the left margin to give the tree a rest but didn’t get a sniff.
It was now time to focus my efforts so I dropped the island swims and the left margin completely and decided to feed heavy down the right under the tree while still feeding pellets over the 11m line in case I needed to rotate. The sport continued under the tree and I had about 120lb of fish in 90 minutes. At this point Bill suggested we fish on for another hour which everyone seemed to agree with but it wasn’t such a good thing for me as a bloke had just walked up to me for a chat and sky-lined my margin swim. That was the end of that so I went out to the 11m line and caught a couple there while feeding up the margin again.
I kept trying the margin swim but with no luck until with 15 minutes to go I finally had another fish and managed another couple close to double figures before the all-out was called.
I had 144lb on my clicker and felt I would be lucky to frame with that. After packing away most of my gear I walked around for the weigh-in to see Jonny Watt register 165 odd from the end peg along the damn wall. There were another couple of weights around 130-150lb so I was now feeling the pain of not getting to grips with my peg.
It was my turn to weigh in and I tell you what, 10 of those fish in one net don’t half weigh a lot! After 2 nets I was told that another 20 odd pound would see me beating Jonny but I wasn’t confident that my smallest net would have much in it, probably 3 carp. Luckily though it tipped past the finishing post and I had won my £10 back off Jonny that I lost on the Res a few weeks back.
Back in the car park it turned out I had won with Jonny a very close second......sorry mate!
I must admit to feeling like I fluked this win because margin fishing is a bit hit and miss and normally it is a miss on my usual venues. However, I have been trying the margins a lot lately and it has enabled me to sort out my rig and feeding, I reckon this won me the match as I now have a good feel for catching lumps down the edge. It was a good job I took a dozen tins of corn with me because I only returned with 2 and I used the whole half kilo of mussels and was running out.
For anyone who wants to learn a bit about mussels then drop me a line, they are great in white wine, a paella and also on the hook!
As I said, I feel like I fluked this win. Perhaps I should have started feeding 8mm pellets across, the carp may have been pre-occupied with the 4mm pellets hence the foul hookers. After the match Bill also told me that the peg responds well to paste down the middle but I wouldn’t have thought to try that with all the obvious features around.
Never mind, at least I went home with £60 from the pools, a soggy £10 note from Jonny (and nearly a black eye) and some good experience at catching lumps all day (plus a bad back).
Up next are a couple of ‘Fish To Win’ qualifiers so fingers crossed!
1st matt love ..............peg 12 168lb 2oz
2nd jonny watt ..............peg 3 165lb 8oz
3rd splitshott [greg] peg 10 137lb 12oz
4th squeaky peg 8 137lb 4oz
At Shannon’s you can draw various different types of peg from open water, corner pegs, short island pegs and long island pegs so a variety of methods and baits could work although I was hoping for open water so I could use my running line methods. I therefore took 2 pellet waggler rods, a bomb rod, a method rod and my pole holdall. In my carryall I had plenty of 8mm pellets for open water, 4mm pellets if I drew an island peg, loads of corn and half a kilo of cooked mussels plus groundbait if I needed the feeder.
At the draw Bill the match organiser asked me to hold the bag of peg numbers and so I asked for a volunteer to draw mine and was handed peg 12 which is 16m to the island and most definitely not my sort of peg. Looking at it, I had an overhanging tree to the right hand side of the island with lily pads directly opposite and a gap to the left of them. I could see movement in both areas either side of the lilies so decided to feed both with 4mm pellets via a catty. I also had an overhanging tree to my right hand margin which looked promising and rushes to my left that would be worth feeding.
With this number of swims available I decided to ignore the track unless I needed it later and decided to feed both island swims and both margins. Plumbing up, I had around 2’ of depth around 2’ from the island and away from the overhanging vegetation, around 4’ down the middle and about 3’ down the margin under the tree. This was on the near slope but directly under the branches. My rigs for across and in the margins both had NG XT Margin floats with the shot bulked around half depth and laying on a few inches. This would allow me to position the bait on the shelves or lay-on further up the shelves. I also like fishing over-depth in the margins to help avoid foul hookers by keeping the rig line away from the hook and feed bait. I also set up an NG Finesse 0.3g for down the track on the drop in case I needed to fish there. Rig line was Fox Micro Plus 0.18 with 0.18 hook lengths and hooks were Drennan Carp Match for hair rigged bands and Maver MT3 for down the edge. A few blokes have commented that the Finesse seems too delicate for catching big carp but in open water they are a dream to fish with and I have not damaged one yet! They are superb at fishing on the drop or half depth with light baits or at full depth with larger baits, especially when bites might be a bit shy.
My plan was to feed both island swims with 4mm pellets by catapult and feed corn down both margins by hand and this is exactly what I did when the whistle went. My first put-in was to the right hand island swim and it resulted in a foul hooker which proceeded to take me up and down the far bank before the hook pulled as it kited under a tree further down the peg. Then after re-feeding I had another foul hooker which did the same and after 20 minutes I had nothing to show for my efforts. Then finally a carp hooked properly came to the net but neither island swims were fishing well, probably due to the foul hooked fish. I then decided to drop in under the margin tree and had a lump immediately but didn’t get any further indications so I carried on feeding the island swims and the margins and rotated around them all. I also decided to start feeding down the track at 11m to try and bring something to life and I managed a couple of smaller fish there but again nothing prolific.
Things really weren’t going well and by 2 o’clock I only had 33lb registered on my clicker and only an hour and a half to go. This was becoming a nightmare. Having fed the margins all day I was hoping that one of them would come to life as a last resort and the tree to my right looked the most likely. I dropped my rig in and the float buried immediately. It was another double figure lump. My second put-in resulted in another take along with a third. I re-fed under the tree and then tried the left margin to give the tree a rest but didn’t get a sniff.
It was now time to focus my efforts so I dropped the island swims and the left margin completely and decided to feed heavy down the right under the tree while still feeding pellets over the 11m line in case I needed to rotate. The sport continued under the tree and I had about 120lb of fish in 90 minutes. At this point Bill suggested we fish on for another hour which everyone seemed to agree with but it wasn’t such a good thing for me as a bloke had just walked up to me for a chat and sky-lined my margin swim. That was the end of that so I went out to the 11m line and caught a couple there while feeding up the margin again.
I kept trying the margin swim but with no luck until with 15 minutes to go I finally had another fish and managed another couple close to double figures before the all-out was called.
I had 144lb on my clicker and felt I would be lucky to frame with that. After packing away most of my gear I walked around for the weigh-in to see Jonny Watt register 165 odd from the end peg along the damn wall. There were another couple of weights around 130-150lb so I was now feeling the pain of not getting to grips with my peg.
It was my turn to weigh in and I tell you what, 10 of those fish in one net don’t half weigh a lot! After 2 nets I was told that another 20 odd pound would see me beating Jonny but I wasn’t confident that my smallest net would have much in it, probably 3 carp. Luckily though it tipped past the finishing post and I had won my £10 back off Jonny that I lost on the Res a few weeks back.
Back in the car park it turned out I had won with Jonny a very close second......sorry mate!
I must admit to feeling like I fluked this win because margin fishing is a bit hit and miss and normally it is a miss on my usual venues. However, I have been trying the margins a lot lately and it has enabled me to sort out my rig and feeding, I reckon this won me the match as I now have a good feel for catching lumps down the edge. It was a good job I took a dozen tins of corn with me because I only returned with 2 and I used the whole half kilo of mussels and was running out.
For anyone who wants to learn a bit about mussels then drop me a line, they are great in white wine, a paella and also on the hook!
As I said, I feel like I fluked this win. Perhaps I should have started feeding 8mm pellets across, the carp may have been pre-occupied with the 4mm pellets hence the foul hookers. After the match Bill also told me that the peg responds well to paste down the middle but I wouldn’t have thought to try that with all the obvious features around.
Never mind, at least I went home with £60 from the pools, a soggy £10 note from Jonny (and nearly a black eye) and some good experience at catching lumps all day (plus a bad back).
Up next are a couple of ‘Fish To Win’ qualifiers so fingers crossed!
1st matt love ..............peg 12 168lb 2oz
2nd jonny watt ..............peg 3 165lb 8oz
3rd splitshott [greg] peg 10 137lb 12oz
4th squeaky peg 8 137lb 4oz
Friday, 9 July 2010
Teams of 4 Hartleylands Nick's Lake
Now that the spring league is over and I managed to claw back some good points to show a half respectable 6th position, it is time for myself and Nick to join the plight of the NG Floats team who have already fished 3 matches in the series and are quite low in the points table.
With one match every month through to October, perhaps there would be a chance to pick some points up and move the team higher in the league. This would be quite a challenge though as this is probably one of the toughest fields of anglers you are likely to meet in the South East.
The matches on Nick’s lake are all pole-only due to the tight pegging and the rules banned anything longer than 16m, floating baits, pole feeders etc. It is a basic pole-only match. This can present a problem because if you can’t draw fish within pole range then you have few options. I therefore prepared 3 lines of attack which would be shallow out in front, corn down the bottom of the near shelf and corn in the margins.
Envelopes were drawn by each team captain and we then pulled out our individual pegs, mine being 21. I think I have drawn this peg a couple of times already this season and I knew there were a few fish there but I would have been targeting the island back then, I wasn’t sure how the peg would handle a pole-only approach. However, the weather was hot and lake’s form was spot on so I had no trouble proceeding with my plan to ball it in and fish my socks off. The only change I made to my plan when seeing the peg was to forget the swim at the bottom of the near shelf because the bank-side bushes meant I would be fishing quite a way out from the margin anyway.
So, with 2 shallow rigs and 2 margin rigs set up I proceeded to throw 6 babies heads at 8m on the whistle which I think quite surprised the paste anglers either side of me who were cupping in a few pellets. I also decided to cup some corn down both margins just in case the shallow line didn’t respond. Normally I would leave feeding the margins until the half way point but being pole-only I really needed a back-up plan from the start.
15 minutes in to the match I hadn’t had a bite although the water was fizzing and I was feeding pellets every 5 or 10 seconds to get them up. The paste anglers were taking a few fish each but I wasn’t too worried as it usually takes 10 or 20 minutes to get the fish shallow here in open water especially if you have balled it in. Clearly the fish are on the deck but soon would be coming up to take the pellets.
Sure enough after 20 minutes I had my first fish and registered 20lb in the first hour by which time the paste anglers had slowed up which is what I expected. I have often wondered if I should start on the deck and take a few before the fish come up but I am reluctant to risk foul hookers that would spook the fish instead of building their confidence.
The sport continued through the day with around 25lb going in the nets every hour while those around me were struggling. The only angler I could hear catching was the guy on flyer peg 23 which is without doubt the best shallow pole peg on the lake but I couldn’t see what was happening elsewhere. I suspected 150lb plus would be needed to win but my clicker was showing that I would probably finish with 100lb plus.
Given that my shallow line was producing and apart from the odd quiet spell the sport was consistent, I chose not to fish the margins as my concentration on feeding out in front would have lessened. This is probably the first time this year I have been able to fish one line for the whole match and although there was a chance of some lumps down the edge, I didn’t want to risk it. The steady catch rate of my shallow line might mean valuable points.
As the whistle went I was playing a fish which was soon netted and my clicker registered 120lb. The scales came around and Mark to my right weighed in 49lb. My fish went 129lb 15oz, to my left was around another 50lb and then peg 23 had about 156lb. Nick on 9 had 129lb odd but didn’t beat my 15oz lol. Then Derrick Gladwin weighed in about 133lb so I had to settle for 3rd place, a £40 payout and we walked away with something like 25 points out of a possible 28, not bad.
After the match I was chatting to Nick and he was able to keep the fish coming all day on the shallow pole as well but had odd quiet spells. I told Nick I was thinking about topping the swim up half way through the match with a few more balls. Nick said he chucked in a small ball half way through to try and kick-start the swim again and it worked. Maybe next time I will take a chance and ball it again half way through to see if it improves the overall weight.
Today I was using the following:
NG Dibber set 2’ deep, shot under float, hair rigged band to 14 Drennan Carp Match on 0.16 to 0.18 Fox Micro +
NG Dibber set 1’ deep, shot under float, hair rigged band to 14 Drennan Carp Match on 0.16 to 0.18 Fox Micro +
Frequent feeding was the key (every 5-10 seconds), slapping got more bites, tapping caught the odd fish.
The next match on 10th July is the same lake, same rules so let’s see what happens.
With one match every month through to October, perhaps there would be a chance to pick some points up and move the team higher in the league. This would be quite a challenge though as this is probably one of the toughest fields of anglers you are likely to meet in the South East.
The matches on Nick’s lake are all pole-only due to the tight pegging and the rules banned anything longer than 16m, floating baits, pole feeders etc. It is a basic pole-only match. This can present a problem because if you can’t draw fish within pole range then you have few options. I therefore prepared 3 lines of attack which would be shallow out in front, corn down the bottom of the near shelf and corn in the margins.
Envelopes were drawn by each team captain and we then pulled out our individual pegs, mine being 21. I think I have drawn this peg a couple of times already this season and I knew there were a few fish there but I would have been targeting the island back then, I wasn’t sure how the peg would handle a pole-only approach. However, the weather was hot and lake’s form was spot on so I had no trouble proceeding with my plan to ball it in and fish my socks off. The only change I made to my plan when seeing the peg was to forget the swim at the bottom of the near shelf because the bank-side bushes meant I would be fishing quite a way out from the margin anyway.
So, with 2 shallow rigs and 2 margin rigs set up I proceeded to throw 6 babies heads at 8m on the whistle which I think quite surprised the paste anglers either side of me who were cupping in a few pellets. I also decided to cup some corn down both margins just in case the shallow line didn’t respond. Normally I would leave feeding the margins until the half way point but being pole-only I really needed a back-up plan from the start.
15 minutes in to the match I hadn’t had a bite although the water was fizzing and I was feeding pellets every 5 or 10 seconds to get them up. The paste anglers were taking a few fish each but I wasn’t too worried as it usually takes 10 or 20 minutes to get the fish shallow here in open water especially if you have balled it in. Clearly the fish are on the deck but soon would be coming up to take the pellets.
Sure enough after 20 minutes I had my first fish and registered 20lb in the first hour by which time the paste anglers had slowed up which is what I expected. I have often wondered if I should start on the deck and take a few before the fish come up but I am reluctant to risk foul hookers that would spook the fish instead of building their confidence.
The sport continued through the day with around 25lb going in the nets every hour while those around me were struggling. The only angler I could hear catching was the guy on flyer peg 23 which is without doubt the best shallow pole peg on the lake but I couldn’t see what was happening elsewhere. I suspected 150lb plus would be needed to win but my clicker was showing that I would probably finish with 100lb plus.
Given that my shallow line was producing and apart from the odd quiet spell the sport was consistent, I chose not to fish the margins as my concentration on feeding out in front would have lessened. This is probably the first time this year I have been able to fish one line for the whole match and although there was a chance of some lumps down the edge, I didn’t want to risk it. The steady catch rate of my shallow line might mean valuable points.
As the whistle went I was playing a fish which was soon netted and my clicker registered 120lb. The scales came around and Mark to my right weighed in 49lb. My fish went 129lb 15oz, to my left was around another 50lb and then peg 23 had about 156lb. Nick on 9 had 129lb odd but didn’t beat my 15oz lol. Then Derrick Gladwin weighed in about 133lb so I had to settle for 3rd place, a £40 payout and we walked away with something like 25 points out of a possible 28, not bad.
After the match I was chatting to Nick and he was able to keep the fish coming all day on the shallow pole as well but had odd quiet spells. I told Nick I was thinking about topping the swim up half way through the match with a few more balls. Nick said he chucked in a small ball half way through to try and kick-start the swim again and it worked. Maybe next time I will take a chance and ball it again half way through to see if it improves the overall weight.
Today I was using the following:
NG Dibber set 2’ deep, shot under float, hair rigged band to 14 Drennan Carp Match on 0.16 to 0.18 Fox Micro +
NG Dibber set 1’ deep, shot under float, hair rigged band to 14 Drennan Carp Match on 0.16 to 0.18 Fox Micro +
Frequent feeding was the key (every 5-10 seconds), slapping got more bites, tapping caught the odd fish.
The next match on 10th July is the same lake, same rules so let’s see what happens.
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