Cold weather slows down the fishing .
Today saw a bumper turnout down the lake to hopefully catch one of the big weights that had come out of the lake recently as with two 300lb + winning weights and double tons and tons a plenty all the anglers were hopeful of a good days fishing. With both the big and the small lake in today and the pleasure anglers fishing the bottom of the small lake the pegging was cosy with 4,5,6,7 and 8 all together in the small lake making for little room and even no carp bay peg 11 had to be put in.
The match today would be decided on a main winner and then the top two in each section of 7 so you could even come third in your section to collect some money which was just as well as i had drawn little used peg 17 with the added pleasure of John on feature peg 18 so i was going to have a noisy day with the stick coming my way or was I ?. There were lots of carp in the middle of the big lake cruising around eating the fly hatch coming off the lake bed and they were not interested in bait but quite content in mouthing the anglers floats as they kept swirling around them. Today also saw the return of lake record holder Jon Walker who had drawn a short walk to peg 29 who was next to form angler Micheal Corsini on peg 31 who in turn had drawn next to his dad Paul on peg 32 so a threeway battle was on by the hut.
With the turnout boosted by the club anglers practising for their match on the Thursday it was amazing how they drew all the form pegs leaving the regulars on the standard pegs so at least they were in for a good days fishing hopefully catching a few big fish too.
Todays overall winner was Reading Angling Centres Geoff Edwards who was left with peg 5 in the draw bag and Geoff did a great job considering peg 6 was also in catching fish to double figures to record the only ton weight of the day. Geoff fished an 8 metre line slightly to his right in line with peg 38 and by fishing pellet and paste feeding pellet he was able to keep the fish coming to claim another win down the lake.
The car park bank section was won by John Walker who caught most of his fish fishing long and shallow on peg 29 with his weight of 85-15 and the motorway bank section was won by me Eddie with 39-13 from peg 17.
With the weather due to stay consistent by cooler the fish should settle down again and get back into feeding mode ready for this weekends round of club matches.
Results.
21 Fished.
Section A small lake
| Place |
Angler |
Peg |
Weight |
| 1st |
Geoff Edwards |
5 |
125-05 |
| 2nd |
Mark Merrett |
6 |
75-06 |
| 3rd |
Paul Oliver |
7 |
58-02 |
| 4th |
Dave Harper |
8 |
44-11 |
| 5th |
Paul Corsini |
32 |
36-15 |
| 6th |
Steve Allen |
9 |
26-04 |
| 7th |
Mick Chappell |
4 |
12-04 |
Section B motorway bank.
| Place |
Angler |
Peg |
Weight |
| 1st |
Eddie Taylor-Green |
17 |
39-13 |
| 2nd |
John Bennett |
18 |
37-08 |
| 3rd |
Paul Jay |
10 |
36-00 |
| 4th |
John Draper |
13 |
32-10 |
| 5th |
Terry Merrett |
15 |
24-05 |
| 6th |
John Parmer |
14 |
19-02 |
| 7th |
Peter Crowhorse |
11 |
13-13 |
Section C car park bank.
| Place |
Angler |
Peg |
Weight |
| 1st |
Jon Walker |
29 |
85-15 |
| 2nd |
Micheal Corsini |
31 |
53-07 |
| 3rd |
Dave King |
23 |
45-04 |
| 4th |
Cavige Winchester |
22 |
34-02 |
| 5th |
Fluffy Baldin |
25 |
12-11 |
| 6th |
Andy Tickner |
26 |
DNW |
| 7th |
Brian Beacome |
28 |
DNW |
John Bennett is sunk by the Pirate.
With both John and I drawn next to each other it was never going to be quiet today as i had to stop his runaway lead in our seasons battle so it was interesting at the start who could feed the most down the edge of the same bush as we were both going to fish it only being 8 metres apart. The fishing was slow down our end of the lake with John catching 5 carp and losing 5 {one coming off at the net how sad } using both waggler and pole and me catching 4 carp and losing 3 but my carp were slightly bigger but only just.
There were lots of cruising carp out in the middle but you could not get them to feed so they were going to be safe today and between us we concentrated on fishing the edges to catch our fish and in the end I came out just on top with a win by just 2-05 to claim another point.
The score now stands at
John 7
Eddie 4
Thanks for reading John , Simon and Eddie.
