With Monday being a Bank Holiday it would be rude not to go fishing (for a change!) so I booked into the open at Summerhayes. Only eight of us today so plenty of room, I was top of the list to draw and pulled out 39 which wouldn’t have been my first choice. Rather unwisely I agreed to have a pound with Dan T who was on 32 which was also the golden peg.
You can just about make out the next angler on peg 8 in the distance!
When I put my box down on the pallet and surveyed the situation, there were quite a few small fish topping and I was quite looking forward to it as you’re normally guaranteed plenty of bites on Longs. I set up the usual little rigs to fish short, 11.5 metres and across to the island. On the whistle I fed all my lines before kicking off on the top kit plus two, first chuck I had a lovely bite and a 6oz skimmer came flying out the water which was a great start.
I was getting regular bites from roach and the odd skimmer, swapping to the other short line I had some more skimbobs and then a little bar of soap. After an hour I had 14 fish (plus quite a few tiny fish I hadn’t clicked) for around 2.5lb. Going into the second sixty minutes I lost a decent skimmer before pulling out of what felt like a crucian or a tench. I did land a foulhooked skimmer of a pound but then from being flat calm, the wind got up and was blowing from right to left and I was struggling to get any semblance of decent presentation.
From getting plenty of bites, I was now putting very little in the net and I didn’t want to go across yet and to be honest my attempts to loose feed were going all over the place. Rob Birch on 35 was landing quite a few tench and crucians and also said Dan was getting some big skimmers. I was going nowhere fast so started feeding a top kit line down the edge to my left. It worked to a certain extent as I was getting a bite a chuck from lots of tiny fish although I did have two nice crucians but also pulled out of a couple of nice roach.
When carp also began to be a pain, I had my first look across and the float buried straight away with a nice ide, a few more followed along with some decent roach but the wind was horrendous and my elastic woes continued as I either bounced off tiny roach or hooked better fish that came off shipping back. At the all out I’d clicked 72 fish plus I’d caught a lot of little bits, as I’ve said in previous posts, 70-80 fish go around 12-14lb but I knew that wouldn’t be enough today.
The scales started with me and my fish went 12lb 3oz, Adie on 8 had fished for carp weighing an excellent 74lb 15oz and Kev ‘O had 41lb 7oz of mainly carp on peg 11. Matt Vowles on 14 weighed 11lb 3oz of quality skimmers and tench before Mark Leahy on 19 had 13lb 11oz of silvers to go into the lead.
Lots of bites for 12lb 3oz
Adie had the top weight on the day with 74lb 15oz of mainly carp
Mark Leahy had 13lb 11oz of quality silvers
Spud on peg 30 was next and had a cracking net of quality silvers on worm weighing 19lb, Dan T had 13lb 7oz (curse of the golden peg again?) but did take a nugget off me and then Rob had a lovely net of tench, crucians and skimmers for 14lb 6oz.
Spud won the silvers with 19lb of skimmers and tench
1 – Adie Bishop (Summerhayes) – 74lb 15oz
Silvers
1 – Spud (Summerhayes) – 19lb
So lots of really close silvers weights again with just 3lb between second and sixth place, brilliant fishing.
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