Well the time had now come to fish the MacMillian charity match before i go on about the match i will give you a quick insight into how this match became to be. A dear family Friend found out a couple of years ago that she had cancer and it was MacMillian who helped her deal with it whilst going through tuff aggressive treatment to try to rid the cancer from her body. After a while this happened and she carried on leading a normal life. With her husband being a avid fisherman and match fisher man he decided to put together a charity match in aid of MacMillian with the money raised going to the said charity as i sign of thank you. The match went along last year raising a nice sum (oh i didn't win the match lol)
This year there was bad news the cancer had returned taking her life in mid July. With the match planned already this year Terry Fisher (her husband) decided to go along with it in memory to his wife and everyone that knew her.
After a couple of emails to a couple of anglers i knew i had the likes of Andy Neal,Christian Vandervleit and Tony Curd all offering them selves up for auction to raise money for the said charity I also had Gaz malman of Malaman floats Neil Powell of Hillbilly pole floats and Mick Wilkinson join in offering floats that could be auctioned off as well as certain tackle/bait companies ( Willis Worms , Carp Vader,Cats and Dogs, Fox,Bait Tech )to name a few that gave raffle prizes and support from the Total Fishing Forum.
With the match time close approaching it was time for the draw in went my hand and out came peg 34 lake 2 to be honest i didn't know what to expect when i got to my peg as this was one lake i hadn't really spent any time on. Getting to the my peg I had the far bank 13m out with a tree to my right in the margin. Plan of attack would be to fish two line down the track 6m out one margin swim to my right (tree) and one to the far bank using method feeder on the pole.
Floats i would be using were once again Tubertini pro carp series 0.3gr down the track and a 0.1gr down the margin. Method on the pole would be a in line fox method feeder with bite indication being the elastic shooting out of my top kit.
Line would be 0.14mm main line with 0.12mm hook length and tubertini 808 size 16 hooks on all rigs.
For the feed i would use Willis worms 4mm low oil pellet on one of the track lines and 6mm down the margin with sweetcorn. The other line would be hemp and meat as before ans method mix for the feeder would be Willis Worms Detenator mix.
All i called and all three pole lines were fed and left i wanted the fish of the far bank and with it being weedy and saggy the method on the pole would be ideal to sit in nice and tight to the bank.
Using the method on the pole i tend to use a plastic clip pushed down the top kit load my feeder up and place the line down the top kit so the method doesn't touch the water. Ship the pole out lift and turn this lets the method feeder swing into its spot once your on drop the pole and ship back until the line becomes tight then its just hold on and wait for the bite.
Well it didn't take long before i had about 20 odd fish in the net using this method rumor was my brother was baggin by tapping his pole and fishing shallow. With this in mind i moved on to my track lines 6m out to see if the fish were there and they sure were baggin another 15 fish quickly then bang it went dead both lines went dead not even a bite I went back over on the method feeder and that had slowed right down ,by now i was scratching my head as it had started so well and now was going wrong arhhh (don't you hate it when this happens lol)
with the match now going slow and picking up the odd fish i wasn't going to be my day.
With a hour to go i cupped in a full pot of hemp and meat and went straight over it and straight away i had a fish in the net. The next put it saw another fish in the net then another one and another they were now queuing to to get caught. The last hour saw me bag around 30-40 fish I knew i wasn't going to win as I was now playing catch up with my brother but i could at least frame.
All out called and with the winning weight being 68lbs caught by my brother i knew i wasn't near it out came the net fish onto the scales to show 38lbs not bad but yet again beaten for third by 4lbs another forth. With the match being in aid of a family friend who died the winning wasn't really what i set out to do it was the talking part and raising as much money as poss for such a great cause. Over all I managed to raise £500 to go towards the final amount which came to the region of £1600.
I would like to thank everyone that took part and to those that helped me reach my total next year sees the match at the same venue hoping to grow on what we have achieved this year.
Jacky Fisher R.I.P
This year there was bad news the cancer had returned taking her life in mid July. With the match planned already this year Terry Fisher (her husband) decided to go along with it in memory to his wife and everyone that knew her.
After a couple of emails to a couple of anglers i knew i had the likes of Andy Neal,Christian Vandervleit and Tony Curd all offering them selves up for auction to raise money for the said charity I also had Gaz malman of Malaman floats Neil Powell of Hillbilly pole floats and Mick Wilkinson join in offering floats that could be auctioned off as well as certain tackle/bait companies ( Willis Worms , Carp Vader,Cats and Dogs, Fox,Bait Tech )to name a few that gave raffle prizes and support from the Total Fishing Forum.
With the match time close approaching it was time for the draw in went my hand and out came peg 34 lake 2 to be honest i didn't know what to expect when i got to my peg as this was one lake i hadn't really spent any time on. Getting to the my peg I had the far bank 13m out with a tree to my right in the margin. Plan of attack would be to fish two line down the track 6m out one margin swim to my right (tree) and one to the far bank using method feeder on the pole.
Floats i would be using were once again Tubertini pro carp series 0.3gr down the track and a 0.1gr down the margin. Method on the pole would be a in line fox method feeder with bite indication being the elastic shooting out of my top kit.
Line would be 0.14mm main line with 0.12mm hook length and tubertini 808 size 16 hooks on all rigs.
For the feed i would use Willis worms 4mm low oil pellet on one of the track lines and 6mm down the margin with sweetcorn. The other line would be hemp and meat as before ans method mix for the feeder would be Willis Worms Detenator mix.
All i called and all three pole lines were fed and left i wanted the fish of the far bank and with it being weedy and saggy the method on the pole would be ideal to sit in nice and tight to the bank.
Using the method on the pole i tend to use a plastic clip pushed down the top kit load my feeder up and place the line down the top kit so the method doesn't touch the water. Ship the pole out lift and turn this lets the method feeder swing into its spot once your on drop the pole and ship back until the line becomes tight then its just hold on and wait for the bite.
Well it didn't take long before i had about 20 odd fish in the net using this method rumor was my brother was baggin by tapping his pole and fishing shallow. With this in mind i moved on to my track lines 6m out to see if the fish were there and they sure were baggin another 15 fish quickly then bang it went dead both lines went dead not even a bite I went back over on the method feeder and that had slowed right down ,by now i was scratching my head as it had started so well and now was going wrong arhhh (don't you hate it when this happens lol)
with the match now going slow and picking up the odd fish i wasn't going to be my day.
With a hour to go i cupped in a full pot of hemp and meat and went straight over it and straight away i had a fish in the net. The next put it saw another fish in the net then another one and another they were now queuing to to get caught. The last hour saw me bag around 30-40 fish I knew i wasn't going to win as I was now playing catch up with my brother but i could at least frame.
All out called and with the winning weight being 68lbs caught by my brother i knew i wasn't near it out came the net fish onto the scales to show 38lbs not bad but yet again beaten for third by 4lbs another forth. With the match being in aid of a family friend who died the winning wasn't really what i set out to do it was the talking part and raising as much money as poss for such a great cause. Over all I managed to raise £500 to go towards the final amount which came to the region of £1600.
I would like to thank everyone that took part and to those that helped me reach my total next year sees the match at the same venue hoping to grow on what we have achieved this year.
Jacky Fisher R.I.P
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