Bank Holiday Monday and for part four of my angling pentalogy I was back at Summerhayes for another match on Longs. 22 fishing so a great turn out and when it was my turn to draw I pulled out 38 which I had mixed feelings about. It’s probably the narrowest peg on the lake and has been really good for carp recently.
I set up the usual little light rigs (0.1 and 0.2 grams) to fish three lines at top four, 10 metres down the middle to my right and two areas across to the island at 11.5 metres. On the whistle I fed all my swims before starting short and first put in, the float went straight under and a chunky little ide got me up and running. Next chuck, I laid the rig in and picked up the catty to feed across when I felt the pole get pulled round and elastic streamed out as a carp nailed the bait on the drop!
A six pounder gave me the runaround before I landed it, thankfully it didn’t mess the short lines up too much and I had a lovely first hour catching ide and some decent roach plus a 10oz crucian. The second hour was similar with another 14 fish including two little tench and a skimmer around 8oz. Adie on 34 was catching decent silvers while Bill next door was fishing short and catching some big skimmers.
Swapping between my three short lines I was still getting regular indications and it was really nice fishing although I did pull out of what felt like a decent skimmer. With around two hours to go, bites began to slow so I had my first look across and started catching some nice roach although I was hooking the odd carp as well. Adie had switched from fishing for silvers to carp and was bagging up down the edge.
In amongst the roach I had another little tench but also pulled out of another decent skimmer and just before the all out hooked a slightly better fish that turned out to be a 6-8oz chublet which was a nice finish to a really enjoyable match. The scales soon arrived and my carp went 21lb 4oz and then my 75 silvers weighed 13lb 8oz but I wasn’t sure it would be enough as Adie was admitting to double figures and apparently Glynn and Mark Leahy had both caught some decent skimmers.
I weighed 13lb 8oz of roach, ide, skimmers, tench, rudd, perch, chublets and a crucian
Rog on my left had 19lb 11oz and then Oscar on peg 4 weighed 31lb, Matt V was the early pacesetter with 54lb 8oz, Alan H had 49lb 7oz of carp on peg 8 and Toby weighed 36lb 1oz before Charlie Thackrah had a brilliant 88lb 7oz on peg 11 to go into the lead. Photo credit – Summerhayes*
Charlie had an excellent 88lb 7oz*
Kev ‘O weighed 26lb 13oz on 14, McKenzie had 8lb of silvers, Nick C did well on 21 with 53lb 9oz of mainly carp. Glynn weighed 9lb 13oz of silvers on 31 and then Mark Leahy had some big skimmers for 8lb 8oz but had lost several as well. Adie had 62lb 10oz (including 11lb of silvers) to finish second overall (and in the silvers), Bill ‘The Paste’ weighed 12lb 8oz of carp and 7lb 1oz of silvers and last but not least was Alan J on 36 who had 15lb 7oz.
1 – Charlie Thackrah (Summerhayes) – 88lb 7oz
2 – Adie Bishop (Summerhayes) – 62lb 10oz
3 – Steve Collins (Summerhayes) – 54lb 10oz
Silvers
1 – Jamie Rich (Bait-Tech/Colmic) – 13lb 8oz
2 – Glynn Wickham (Summerhayes) – 9lb 13oz
3 – Mark Leahy (Summerhayes) – 8lb 8oz
I had a nice pick up of £68 and with loads of bites, the day had flown by once again, lovely fishing.
Oscar donated a pound and one from Dan T helped the Nugget-O-Meter reach £230.
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