Next match saw me back down withy farm for our groups fur and feather event. The match was to be held on on the snake lake which i was happy about as i hadn't fished the snake in a long while i knew if i drew well there was a good chance of fishing well.
The night before had seen some nasty frosts and most of the lake was iced over had a funny feeling the ice breakers would come out.
Well after a nice Beckie and a cup of coffee it was draw time i managed to draw the inner snake right hand side not to far off the car park cant remember the peg been a while.
I had the ice breaker out well bored it of si irwin (ir0027) and managed to brake to the far bank as i intended to do most of my fishing over there.
I decided to take a cautious approach to this one as i knew the snake at times can be tricky and with the frost it might prove difficult.I set up two lines one down the track and one tight to the far bank. I tried to keep my tackle as light as i could get away with as i knew the fish might not bother if they see a heavy hook and line.
For feed i was going to use micro pellet which i had soaked in liquid worm and added a few grains of hemp the night before and left it in the fridge. The way i was going to feed was to keep it positive and try and stay away from the negative approach and to keep the feed going in hoping the carp would come onto it later on in the match.
I started off down the track and sat on that line for half a hour not a bite and asked the fella to my right he was in the same position this line was quickly sacked for the mean time topped up and left.
The far bank swim i noticed started to show signs of fish there hook bait would be single red maggot fished over the pellet. For the next couple of hours i started catching a good stamp of roach and Rudd with every half hour topping up with a medium sized ball of pellet as i was still trying to draw the carp in.
The inside line was still not producing not a bite all match so after a few more times over it to see what was there and still nothing that was completely sacked for the rest of the match.
Back to the far bank and with a hour and a half to go the float shot under it was a carp (was this a lucky one or had they started to feed?) with light tackle being used it took me a while but it was landed.Straight back out there and once again another dip of the float and another carp looks like it had payed off after all.In it came and back out again same thing dip and i was into another carp i couldn't believe it now as i thought i might have blown it as there were one or two people catching further down the section. By this time now i had 3 carp in the bag i know it wasn't many and its hardly what you call bagging but it had put me in the frame all i needed to do was stop there now. I put back in on the far bank same again the float dipped and this time it took of down the lake this time i was snapped up by a bigger fish hook length gone. After resetting the rig up i went back over to the far bank and nothing had i spooked the fish off when i was snapped up ? i introduced more feed and sat back and waited with 15 Min's left i had another two carp which put me in a strong position for a section win.
All out was called and i found out i hadn't done enough for section win but i managed a section 2nd which made me smile as i had just done 3rd by 200 gr and first had done me buy a kilo which wasn't much its the story of the carp that got away again !! but still in the frame so i was happy.
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