Waking up Sunday morning, the weather was showing no signs of letting up and I wasn’t feeling too enthusiastic about spending another day battling the elements. Summerhayes is pretty exposed at the best of times and on arriving the wind was howling across Longs which did nothing to ease my lack of motivation!
With ten fishing, Pete asked what we wanted to do and the majority favoured a draw with all of us on Longs. I pulled out number 8 which is a great carp peg and not where I wanted to be but then the last person went to draw and there were no balls left in the bucket so a redraw was called. It was then decided to have a rover on all lakes and my drawing ability remained crap as I got sixth choice!
Can’t understand how they got the number of balls in the bucket wrong!
The few relatively sheltered pegs on Sellicks and Dennys went early and when it was my turn, I didn’t really know where to go so opted for 33 on Longs. It’s been producing some decent silvers weights and although the wind was a nightmare it would be mainly off my back, that was the theory anyway!
Much like yesterday, the aim of the game was to get as little gear out as possible and batten down the hatches! Two rigs were assembled for fishing four sections out, a little 0.2 gram Bobbie and a heavier 0.6 gram float (not used). On the side tray I had some maggots, disco pinkies plus Bait-Tech Special G F1 Dark groundbait.
Pete got us underway and I fed a line angled to the right with a small lightly squeezed nugget of gb and a few pinkies while the left hand line was fed a bit more positively. The only angler I could really see was Alex over on 13 and when he had a small fish first chuck on the waggler, I was expecting to catch quite quickly but it hasn’t happened. After ten minutes or so I’ve finally had a tiny roach on single pinkie from the left hand line, a couple more followed so I tried red maggot and the next bite resulted in a carp!
Swapping to the right hand line I had another carp and things weren’t going very well so far! Thankfully, the next indication was from a 4oz skimmer and I started getting regular bites. Along with more skimbobs from 2-6oz, I was catching some lovely roach and although the gusty wind was a pain, presentation fishing short was okay.
It was a bite a chuck and after two hours I was still catching well including a couple of slightly better skimmers and a little tench, the wind also dropped although it then started raining heavily, which was nice! I was expecting bites to tail off and thought I might have to get another section or two out the holdall but swapping between the two lines, the fish kept coming.
It would go quiet and you could pretty much guarantee what was coming next as a carp muscled in but they weren’t causing me too much grief and I was landing most of them. As well as regularly swapping between the two top four swims I also started fishing a line between them where I hadn’t fed anything and this produced quite well with a couple more little tench of 8-10oz and some skimmers.
To be honest it was just a really lovely days fishing and I hardly lost anything all day. I had another little tench and a gorgeous crucian was the icing on the cake. At the all out, I finished up with 80 fish which averaging 2-3oz would give me between 10-12lb and I’d hooked a dozen carp, landing 10 of them.
It had chucked it down for nearly four hours and I was like a drowned rat, I packed up and put some of my sodden kit in the car before going to watch the weigh in. Tom R on 39 had 28lb 10oz, Alex (peg 13) weighed 34lb which included 8lb 15oz of silvers and then Craig L on 19 went into the lead with 62lb 6oz.
Craig weighed 62lb 6oz on peg 19
Glynn on peg 22 had 4lb 11oz of silvers then my carp weighed 39lb and my silvers went 16lb 14oz. Sellicks was next and Adie on peg 1 had 35lb 5oz of carp, Roy up on 12 weighed 8lb 14oz of silvers and then Zooner on 16 had some big skimmers and a tench for 11lb 5oz.
Rather moist but I’d really enjoyed the fishing!
Zooner had some quality silvers for 11lb 5oz
Lastly we headed to Dennys where Roger C had 5lb 13oz and then Dan P on peg 4 had the top weight on the day with 70lb 6oz.
Dan P had the top weight on the day with 70lb 6oz
1 – Dan Pither (Summerhayes) – 70lb 6oz
2 – Craig Lyttle (Summerhayes) – 62lb 6oz
Silvers
1 – Jamie Rich (Bait-Tech/Colmic) – 16lb 14oz
2 – Jess Jordan (Summerhayes) – 11lb 5oz
I picked up £36 for winning the silvers and had really enjoyed the fishing (if not the weather) and it’s nice to qualify early for the silvers final next year.
Zooner’s quid was added to the pot as The Nugget-O-Meter reached £525 and nears its climax for another year, final total next post.
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