Wednesday Open Match. 11th January 2012

 On arriving at the lake today you could of been forgive to think you had turned up for an open in the summer as there were 17 anglers and 4 pleasure anglers at the lake making for a very cosy day. The great thing about big turnouts is that we get to use both parts of the lake and as the pleasure anglers were already catching the omens were good.

With the weather starting off sunny with a gentle breeze but still fairly cold ,colder than last Sunday the anglers were hoping that the good weights  from last Sunday continued but in todays match it fished very different. The pegs the anglers wanted were end pegs 2, 18, 22 and with the draw being called there was a rush to the bag but the 3 most wanted pegs went to Geoff Edwards who had drawn peg 22, Mick Chappel had drawn peg 18 and John Daper amazingly had not drawn peg 9 but this time peg 2 on the far bank of the small lake.

The story of the lake as i was hidden on peg 5 in the small lake was the fishing in the big lake was much better than the small lake with many carp caught and in total there were 71 carp caught for 735lb at an average of 10.35lb per fish which was incredible for this time of year, and there were fish caught today any specimen carp angler would of been proud of with many carp caught between 10 and 20lb but not many stamp 5lb ders so strong gear was the order of the day. Even John Draper on peg 2 managed to smash a top 3 which went down to the bottom of the lake so 1- nil to the carp.

Today's winner Geoff Edwards and nearly king of the lake.

In first place today was Geoff Edwards ,who was fishing corner peg 22 in the big lake and Geoff was fishing the bush by peg 20 using corn hookbait feeding micro pellet fishing on the deck. Geoff was flying for the first 4 hours catching and losing loads of fish and the lake king was within his grasp but a very poor last hour put paid to that dream, but he still ended up with a great winter weight of 169-04 which conprised of some very big fish to nearly 20lb but due to a flat camera battery i did not get that shot but very well done Geoff you at least get peg king for peg 22.

The hottest swim on the lake peg 22.

Two ton weights in a week for inform angler Pete Arnold.

In second place was Pete Arnold who was fishing hot winter peg 24 on the car park bank, and today Pete opted to fish the bomb to about midway across the lake using a combination of corn and meat hook baits to catch his 13 carp which like Geoff’s went to close to 20lb and in the end was only 3 big carp behind first place with his weight of 130-12. Completing the frame was Stuart Yeomans on peg 14 and after catching 1 fish on the pole swapped to the bomb and caught more carp for a weight of 87-08.

Some more monster fish from todays match.

Dangerous Dave with a 18lb mirror from peg 10.

Graham Ridgley with a 14lb mirror from peg 13.

Wez with a 17lb common from peg 26.

Paul Jay with a 19lb common from peg 9 .

Results

17 Anglers Fished

John  2

Eddie 0

Thanks for reading Eddie, Simon and John