With a nice long weekend for Easter, I extended it further by taking the Tuesday as leave and booked into matches every day starting with Summerhayes on Good Friday and finishing at Revels for Parker ‘The Pole’s’ birthday outing.
Twelve of us fishing today and judging by the forecast we were in for a moist match, I was slightly apprehensive as the Tart had been threatening to fish today but thankfully when I paid my pools, his name wasn’t on the list!
When it was my time to draw, I pulled out 36 which is a great peg although it took me by surprise somewhat as it’s normally reserved for Bill ‘The Paste’! It can be brilliant for carp or silvers and although I obviously prefer fishing for the latter, it’s probably most consistent for the former! Talking of Bill, he wasn’t far away on 34 which was the golden peg today although it tends to be a bit of a curse drawing the bonus ball at the moment!
On the whistle I fed two short lines and began pinging maggots across. There were loads of carp moving by the point of the island to my left (on the other side of the aerator rope) so I started feeding maggots there as well, hoping they might leave me alone (wishful thinking!).
It didn’t take long for my first bite and I was catching little skimmers, roach, ide, perch and little tench. With an hour gone, I had 12 fish for around 2lb, the second sixty minutes was similar with another 8 fish and I was on target for 10-12lb which I thought would be thereabouts today.
It was chucking it down and then to make matters worse, I looked behind me and the Tart had turned up in his waterproofs, he got a chair from the hut and plonked himself down behind me. He said he’d intended to fish but overslept and then decided to drive up anyway (which took him ages in the Bank Holiday traffic!). Typically my bites slowed up (always knew Brendon was a bloody jinx!) and he was taking great delight in telling me how well Russ was catching over on peg 3. He was getting some decent skimmers and I could see Roy regularly landing fish on peg 10 as well.
As we passed the three hour point, my short lines had shut up shop so I went across and had a nice run of fish including some decent roach, ide, tench and little chublets. Thankfully after an hour sitting in the rain and annoying me (never right that boy, the cheese has definitely slid off his cracker!), he said his goodbyes and spent another hour or so driving back down to Devon.
My long line slowed and I was hooking the odd carp so with around half an hour remaining, I had another look short, a carp first chuck wasn’t ideal but then I had a roach, a skimmer and an ide before hooking yet another carp and that was enough of that. Back at 13 metres with ten minutes left and the rest had done it some good as I added another four fish to finish up with 73 which I hoped would go somewhere in the region of 11-12lb.
I packed my kit away and we started the weigh in with Adrian W on 39 and he’d done well to put 64lb 13oz of mainly carp on the scales. Russ was next and admitting to 12lb so we all knew it would be a lot more than that, his lovely net of tench, skimmers and crucians weighed 20lb 5oz which is one of the best silvers weights on Longs this year. He was still adamant Roy had battered him although Mr Hughes said he only had 9lb and of course weighed 15lb 14oz!
64lb 13oz of carp for Adrian on peg 39
Russ had a lovely net of silvers for 20lb 5oz
Roy had 15lb 14oz on peg 10
Dan T had 21lb 3oz (including 3lb 4oz of silvers), Alan H on 14 went into second place with 40lb 6oz, Kev ‘O weighed 16lb 9oz of carp and then Alex had a great net of silvers for 16lb 4oz on 19. Tom R weighed 37lb 4oz, Rob B had 5lb 10oz of silvers on 30 and Mark L weighed 27lb 8oz.
Bill ‘The Paste’ on 34 had 36lb 9oz and then my fish went 15lb 1oz which wasn’t a million miles away and another really enjoyable days fishing (apart from the Tart and the weather of course!).
I had 73 fish for 15lb 1oz
1 – Adrian Wood (Summerhayes) – 64lb 13oz
2 – Alan Hurley (Summerhayes) – 40lb 6oz
Silvers
1 – Russell Hilton (Colmic) – 20lb 5oz
2 – Alex Kerr (Summerhayes) – 16lb 4oz
So lots of close weights yet again and the silvers fishing is really enjoyable with lots of bites from a real mixture of species.
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