After the fisho match at Lakeveiw it was time to head off back down south (home) and get ready for the Artillery Centre Angling Club spring open which was to take part at Witherington Farm.
Having spent a day down there last week to brush the cob webs out I already had a plan of attack of what i was going to do. The match was to take part on selwood and cottage, i was hoping to draw selwood as thats what i had been on last week and i have another match on there Saturday so it would help me keep in touch to what the fish were doing.
After getting down there and having a fry up and paying my pools money the draw took place hand went in and out came selwood 6 happy days !
On getting to my peg and having a look round i had a empty peg of to the right and had a island chuck to the front (would be hard as i forgot my rods) so it was going to be a all out pole attack.
The first swim i set up was the margin swim as it was screaming at me not to ignore I planned on fishing straight to the platform on the right, not on top of it just of to the side as i didn't want the fish running under the platform and all hell breaking lose trying to get them out. The rig that i set up for this was .2gram Hillbilly Grizzly float 0.16mm line straight through to a maver mt4 size 16 hook purple hydro would be the choice for elastic to tame the munters that were in the lake and pay regular visits into the margins.
The next line would be a 13meter line straight to my front (as i was setting up the wind started to pick up slightly so didn't want to get blown around all day attempting to fish any longer). The rig i set up for this swim was a Gaz Malman power pencil .2gram with a 0.13mm main line and 0.10mm hook length with a tubertini 808 size 18 hook elastic choice would be a double number 4 Preston slip elastic attached to a pulla bung, this would be my main skimmer line but would also be strong enough and give me a better chance of landing the carp within the lake should they tip up later on in the match.
The other line i set up were to be one slightly of to the left at 7meters same as the 13meter line for set up.
My plan of attack was to get the skimmers in the lake feeding as these can prove to be good weight builders and if you do get them going you could be in for a busy day. What i have noticed that the carp do tend to move onto the skimmer lines later on in the day and was hoping the chance would be there to bag a couple pushing my weight up.
On the all in all 3 lines were fed with dampened down micro pellet which i had sprinkled and mixed with Willis Worms Detonator ground bait, this gave the pellets a slight covering and one i have been using for a while to good results as it gives of a cloud in the water. The hook bait would be a either a 4mm or 6mm xspander pellet.
I decided to go over my 13meter line first and it didn't take long before i got indications on the float, after another 5mins the float shot under and i was into a carp (not what i planned for straight away) with the elastic and the pulla bung doing its job after about 10mins a 5lb carp was in the net happy days !
The next put in saw the float move around again and it didn't take long before the skimmers switched onto the feed and i started to catch steady for the next hour.
With me fishing the 13meter line every time a fish was caught i would re fed a nugget of micro pellets down the edge and out on my 7meter line as if the 13meter line went dead i could mug a few off the 7meter line and let the 13meter line settle before i had another go at it.
With the match passing the half way time i was in a good position with a fair few skimmers in the net and three carp (better than what everyone else was doing).
With the 13meter line paying of i stayed over there picking of the skimmers steadily then it went dead which is what thought it would do as the carp might have moved in true to my word the float shot under and and a carp went tearing off across the lake. I manged to bring it in to my top three kit and ping it snapped me oh well, after sticking another hook length on i wasn't surprise to see the swim had died so i re fed and went onto the 7meter line and started catching skimmers on there. By now one or two anglers had managed to put decent sized carp into their nets and were catching up, with a hour to go i made a move for my margin line knowing a couple of carp would put me back in a good position.
Having gone over the margin line and waiting for 15 mis it seemed nothing was there then thump float gone purple hydro out making a bee line for the platform. This one didn't manage to make it to the platform and it didn't take long to for it to see my landing net.
After re feeding it was straight back over there to see if any carp had come into the swim, no less than five mins later the float shot under again this one manged to get to the platform and snap me i just lost the hook luckily.
Good job i had set up another rig at the beginning with 0.20mm line same detail float and hook attached to red hydro as i though i may need to step gear should i have problems on the lighter set up.
With half hour to go i managed another three carp before the all out was called. I was happy with what i had caught as some anglers struggled some anglers caught a mixture like me and some had just carp and it was going to be tight for the section win.
With the weigh in taking place i put 44lb onto the scales with the peg two up from me taking the lake by 45lb.
With cottage lake having a winning weight of 66lb of carp it was not on the cards to take the match, however with the lake winner on my lake a guest he could only compete for the guest prize leaving me taking 2nd for the Artillery Centre Angling Club spring open.
Looking back on the match i think i will start to use hook lengths on my margin rigs as it could of gone pete tong if i hadn't of set up another rig just in case.
Next matches see me in a double header for the Saturday and Sunday back down at Witherington Farm in the Steve Ramsey Memorial match with maybe a afternoons fishing before hand just to try a few things out.
Having spent a day down there last week to brush the cob webs out I already had a plan of attack of what i was going to do. The match was to take part on selwood and cottage, i was hoping to draw selwood as thats what i had been on last week and i have another match on there Saturday so it would help me keep in touch to what the fish were doing.
After getting down there and having a fry up and paying my pools money the draw took place hand went in and out came selwood 6 happy days !
On getting to my peg and having a look round i had a empty peg of to the right and had a island chuck to the front (would be hard as i forgot my rods) so it was going to be a all out pole attack.
The first swim i set up was the margin swim as it was screaming at me not to ignore I planned on fishing straight to the platform on the right, not on top of it just of to the side as i didn't want the fish running under the platform and all hell breaking lose trying to get them out. The rig that i set up for this was .2gram Hillbilly Grizzly float 0.16mm line straight through to a maver mt4 size 16 hook purple hydro would be the choice for elastic to tame the munters that were in the lake and pay regular visits into the margins.
The next line would be a 13meter line straight to my front (as i was setting up the wind started to pick up slightly so didn't want to get blown around all day attempting to fish any longer). The rig i set up for this swim was a Gaz Malman power pencil .2gram with a 0.13mm main line and 0.10mm hook length with a tubertini 808 size 18 hook elastic choice would be a double number 4 Preston slip elastic attached to a pulla bung, this would be my main skimmer line but would also be strong enough and give me a better chance of landing the carp within the lake should they tip up later on in the match.
The other line i set up were to be one slightly of to the left at 7meters same as the 13meter line for set up.
My plan of attack was to get the skimmers in the lake feeding as these can prove to be good weight builders and if you do get them going you could be in for a busy day. What i have noticed that the carp do tend to move onto the skimmer lines later on in the day and was hoping the chance would be there to bag a couple pushing my weight up.
On the all in all 3 lines were fed with dampened down micro pellet which i had sprinkled and mixed with Willis Worms Detonator ground bait, this gave the pellets a slight covering and one i have been using for a while to good results as it gives of a cloud in the water. The hook bait would be a either a 4mm or 6mm xspander pellet.
I decided to go over my 13meter line first and it didn't take long before i got indications on the float, after another 5mins the float shot under and i was into a carp (not what i planned for straight away) with the elastic and the pulla bung doing its job after about 10mins a 5lb carp was in the net happy days !
The next put in saw the float move around again and it didn't take long before the skimmers switched onto the feed and i started to catch steady for the next hour.
With me fishing the 13meter line every time a fish was caught i would re fed a nugget of micro pellets down the edge and out on my 7meter line as if the 13meter line went dead i could mug a few off the 7meter line and let the 13meter line settle before i had another go at it.
With the match passing the half way time i was in a good position with a fair few skimmers in the net and three carp (better than what everyone else was doing).
With the 13meter line paying of i stayed over there picking of the skimmers steadily then it went dead which is what thought it would do as the carp might have moved in true to my word the float shot under and and a carp went tearing off across the lake. I manged to bring it in to my top three kit and ping it snapped me oh well, after sticking another hook length on i wasn't surprise to see the swim had died so i re fed and went onto the 7meter line and started catching skimmers on there. By now one or two anglers had managed to put decent sized carp into their nets and were catching up, with a hour to go i made a move for my margin line knowing a couple of carp would put me back in a good position.
Having gone over the margin line and waiting for 15 mis it seemed nothing was there then thump float gone purple hydro out making a bee line for the platform. This one didn't manage to make it to the platform and it didn't take long to for it to see my landing net.
After re feeding it was straight back over there to see if any carp had come into the swim, no less than five mins later the float shot under again this one manged to get to the platform and snap me i just lost the hook luckily.
Good job i had set up another rig at the beginning with 0.20mm line same detail float and hook attached to red hydro as i though i may need to step gear should i have problems on the lighter set up.
With half hour to go i managed another three carp before the all out was called. I was happy with what i had caught as some anglers struggled some anglers caught a mixture like me and some had just carp and it was going to be tight for the section win.
With the weigh in taking place i put 44lb onto the scales with the peg two up from me taking the lake by 45lb.
With cottage lake having a winning weight of 66lb of carp it was not on the cards to take the match, however with the lake winner on my lake a guest he could only compete for the guest prize leaving me taking 2nd for the Artillery Centre Angling Club spring open.
Looking back on the match i think i will start to use hook lengths on my margin rigs as it could of gone pete tong if i hadn't of set up another rig just in case.
Next matches see me in a double header for the Saturday and Sunday back down at Witherington Farm in the Steve Ramsey Memorial match with maybe a afternoons fishing before hand just to try a few things out.
