Summerhayes Sunday was on Longs and after drawing 14 last week, I didn’t move very far and was on 17, another swim where the island was out of reach. Adie was in scummy corner (21) and not happy at all while Chris W had drawn 36 which was also the bonus peg so was he in for a bumper payday or would ‘The Curse of the Golden Ball’ strike again?
On the whistle I fed three lines at top four and another at 13 metres with little nuggets of groundbait before starting short. The first sixty minutes were decent catching roach, ide, skimmers and a little tench, hour two was a bit slower and of course I pulled out of a few skimmers which is standard at the moment and I keep trying different elastics but nothing really seems to make a difference, any suggestions welcome!
Although I wasn’t bagging, I was getting enough indications to stay short and it was four hours before I had to venture out to 13 metres where I’d been pinging maggots. It was okay and I started catching some roach and ide although I was bouncing off quite a few tiny fish. After another busy match, I finished up with 71 fish (plus quite a few bits and bobs I hadn’t counted) which I thought would give me between 10-12lb.
As I took some of my kit back to the car, Adie said he had double figures and apparently Glynn on 28 was admitting to 15lb so with Pete only paying two today, I needed to beat Adie to stand any chance of picking up. Alan J on 39 weighed 12lb 13oz of mainly carp, Toby B on ‘Cyanide Straight’ was the early leader with 58lb 14oz, Hollywood and Rich S had both chucked back and Kev ‘O on 12 weighed 39lb 14oz.
Peg 14 didn’t weigh, my silvers went 12lb 13oz, Lee S on 19 had 51lb 6oz and then it was Adie who had a cracking net of silvers including a big eel plus lots of tench, crucians and skimmers for 19lb 2oz, a brilliant weight off that peg. Dave P chucked back on 25 before we got to Glynn, he tipped his fish into the weigh bucket and it was going to be close, the display settled on 12lb 4oz and I was still hanging on to second. Young McKenzie next door had fished a great match with 16 metres of pole to weigh 88lb 7oz of carp.
12lb 13oz of silvers for me
Despite not fancying his peg at all, Adie won the silvers with a great net of silvers for 19lb 2oz
Young McKenzie continues to show the adults how to do it with another match win
Rog C on 32 had 13lb 11oz, peg 34 chucked back and then Chris W on 36 had to settle for second place with 65lb 8oz of carp as ‘The Curse’ strikes again!
1 – McKenzie Wickham (Summerhayes) – 88lb 7oz
2 – Chris Witham (Torquay) – 65lb 8oz
Silvers
1 – Adie Bishop (Summerhayes) – 19lb 2oz
2 – Jamie Rich (Bait-Tech/Colmic) – 12lb 13oz
I picked up £30 for second in the silvers and it’s nice getting lots of bites but I’m not getting it quite right, at the moment 70-80 fish equates to between 12-14lb (averaging around 2.5oz apiece) so the target is 20 fish an hour which I reckon would give you 18-20lb. I do think it’s possible but it all depends on how many carp you hook and a few better fish (skimmers, tench, crucians or eels) wouldn’t go amiss either! It’s certainly interesting fishing at the moment with three different methods all viable and doing well (groundbait and maggots, micros and expanders or the worm).
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