Another Tuesday trip to Revels and Parker ‘The Pole’ was back for this one, when we arrived the car park was already starting to fill up. Always popular, there were 21 fishing this week and we were on Main and Dead Tree lakes. The draw got underway and it was a nice feeling knowing I couldn’t end up on Trendles although I’d still like to avoid 10 to 16 on Main if possible (never satisfied am I?). Duffers got 48 on Dead Tree and didn’t look very impressed at all, when my name was called I got peg 6 on Main, a great silvers peg and a new one for me, that’ll do!
It was going to be scorching hot today
Rigs today were a 0.3 gram F1 Carbon Slim for top kit to hand either side plus a 0.2 gram Colmic Elsa to fish two lines at 11.5 metres. The side tray contained lots of maggots, disco pinkies and some Bait-Tech Special G F1 Dark.
On the whistle I fed the two longer lines with gb and pinkies before starting on the top kit to the left feeding just a few maggots, first put in the float buried and a small perch was swung to hand. Another next chuck and I thought I was going to be in for a busy day but then the float just sat there! Switching to the other side, I had another flurry of little perch and gudgeon and by swapping between the two lines I put odd fish in the net during the first hour but it was slower than I was expecting and I only had 20 on the clicker.
Terry Dell behind me on peg 10 started well on the whip but had slowed up going into the second hour. It was already beginning to get uncomfortably hot and there were carp on the top everywhere. I was only getting odd perch and gudgeon on the inside lines with no sign of any roach or skimmers so had a look at 11.5 metres earlier than I would have liked. It wasn’t happening there either and after an age, the float finally went under with a small roach the result.
I was hoping that as I fed the l longer lines more regularly, they would improve but it was really hard work. Although I did manage a couple of skimmers, after two hours I only had around 2lb in the net and things would need to improve drastically if I was going to challenge for an envelope today.
Another look on the top two lines resulted in a little run of fish including a nice roach but it was fairly short lived. I was just about to go back out on the longer lines when a positive bite resulted in plenty of elastic on show and in the clear water I could see it was a lovely roach of 8oz or so. Next put I had to wait a while for a bite but a 12oz skimmer was worth the wait.
I had to keep swapping lines to get bites but the two longer swims never really got going at all and I only added one more skimmer and a few small fish from them. When I dropped back in on the short lines, I had a couple more decent roach along with another 10oz skimbob but the last half an hour was a real struggle and I only hooked a carp.
As soon as the whistle went Duffers phoned (he’d messaged earlier saying it was fishing hard up on Dead Tree), his post match analysis painted a different picture however and he was admitting to a ‘good’ double figures! I’d ended up with 82 fish which at an average of 1.5oz apiece would give me 7.5lb and I knew I’d be handing over another nugget.
When the scales got down to us, Duffers had weighed an excellent 24lb 8oz, John Bass on 49 had also done well with 14lb 2oz, Steve Nadin had 9lb 9oz, Parker ‘The Pole’ on 46 weighed 8lb 15oz of silvers and Jack Copp had some big skimmers for 6lb 11oz. Photos courtesy of Revels*
Duffers won the silvers with another lovely net of roach, skimmers and perch for 24lb 8oz*
John Bass was second in the silvers with 14lb 2oz from peg 49*
Parker ‘The Pole’ had 8lb 15oz of skimmers and roach*
Jack had some decent skimmers for 6lb 11oz*
Young Mia on peg 2 was first to weigh on Main and had 1lb 3oz, Wayne DNW’d on 4, my silvers went 8lb 7oz and I chucked back my four carp. Terry L on 7 had 40lb 12oz if carp, pegs 8 and 9 didn’t weigh, Terry D had 5lb 6oz of silvers and then Rich Butler on 11 continued his good form with 67lb 2oz.
It’s fantastic to see some youngsters on the Tuesday matches. Mia had 1lb 3oz of silvers on peg 2*
Rich Butler made it two on the trot with 67lb 2oz from peg 11*
Steve Crowford on 12 weighed 53lb 7oz, Dave S had 16lb 4oz, Not So Big Al on 16 went into second place with 53lb 13oz, then Hugh on 18 was a fish short with 52lb 4oz, pegs 20 and 21 didn’t weigh and Andy Miller had 20lb 15oz on 22.
1 – Rich Butler (Revels) – 67lb 2oz
2 – Alan Winsper (Alan’s Angling) – 53lb 13oz
3 – Steve Crowford (Revels) – 53lb 7oz
Silvers
1 – Darren Duffield (Ilminster) – 24lb 8oz
2 – John Bass (Revels) – 14lb 2oz
3 – Steve Nadin (Revels) – 9lb 9oz
So Dead Tree was the place to draw for silvers today with the top four weights coming from there although I wasn’t a million miles away from third and I think finding another 1lb 2oz was possible from my peg.
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