I went to a venue last week that a few had mentioned that they had fished it a few yrs back but the levels were low and it was very shallow and no one had gone there for years. Yorkie, a buddy from the club was also going down for a bit too. It's in the middle of a park in a suburb about 40 minutes drive from the city and is a nice looking lake. It's got a little island on one side and could prob host about 12 to 15 pegs on it so can see a knock up or two coming up there soon enough. It must have filled up too as I had about 4 ft of water at 11 mts plumbing on it. I just had a few hours at towards the dam end on it and had 22 carp for about 50 lbs and lost prob just as many and most came from the margins to corn or meat. I got sorta bored in the end so only had a few hours but will go back there again soon. Yorkie had a fish also almost every cast and was just messing with a waggler and feeding very little so all this rain doesn't seem to have done this lake any harm.
All these little lakes ....and no anglers.........
.........and stuffed with carp they are too....!
Sunday was the third round of our little teams of 3 league here and was back on the same venue as the last match. I organised the team league this year but mixed the anglers around slightly and the teams were picked from our club league table results last year. The top four anglers were 4 teams and paired with the bottom four and then the middle of the table were added in in the same order and it seemed to work out pretty go for sections too as it meant the top four fished in a section,the middle guys had a section and the bottom of the table had a section. it helps also with the newer or less experienced anglers are not fishing with the top guys in a section and I think keeps the motivation going a bit more, plus the tops guys have a tight section to fish in as all finished in the top 4 last year in the league. My team was myself, Dave Woods and Yorkie (Mark York). I had won the club league last year but it looked like someone turned the sheets upside down this year....In the first 2 rounds I have finished last in my section in both matches but luckily for us Dave won his sections and other teams had mixed results so we were in second place behind the Neil Dourish's team by 8 points but we needed so good results today.
I drew A2 which was the dam end of the lake (opposite end from the last match) and was a little concerned once again it was going to be a little tough because of all the rain gone in plus the temps have cooled off a bit here the last few nights. Then I had Neil on the end peg A1 so he was going to be hard stopped too. These matches are just 5 hour affairs also
I had a bomb rod, little method rod and waggler set up but it was getting a little windy so didn't really think it would be used much today. Then a pole rig on 13 mts, a rig for left and right at 7 mts and also a rig for my margins covered me for the lot...All my rigs are .16 to .14 hooklenghts to tub 175 hooks on white hydro/pull bungs except for my margin rig. That's .18 straight to an animal hook 14 and black hydro. Bait with me was corn, maggot, a little luncheon meat, bread and I also took plenty of worms. Once the weather cools down it seems to be one of the better baits for carp here. There is quiet a bit of open water on these swims so I usually fish a few different areas and try to pick up one or two fish from each. I have noticed they tend to keep out from the feed sometimes when there is a few of us fishing there so kept that in mind .
On the all in I cupped a potful of corn and crumb into the margins, and a small ball of ground bait on each of my 7 mt pole lines, but cupped 3 balls on my 13 mt line hoping a few would settle there as they pushed out later in the match. I fished the feeder for the first 40 minutes or so with just a few liners and Neil had 2 fish on the pole as had Steve on my other side by now. I dropped in on 7 mts to my right and had a few liners and then after a very finicky bite had a fish of about 1lb or so in the net. Nothing followed it to the net untill an hour and a half into the match and it was even smaller but I was getting the odd knock and liner but the bites were finicky so I was reluctant to feed any more pots and just kept going with a little kinder cup with a few maggots and one or two pieces of corn. After the third hour just one more fish on 13 mts was all I had and Neil had been getting fish slowly but steady on the end peg and was having thoughts of it going to be a right hammering. I had another fish straight away on the bomb and a few liners but they just didn't seem to want to settle anywhere. I chop and changed around with everything but nothing showed so at the start of the last hour I made my mind up to just stick to my 13 mt line and hope a few would turn up as I wasn't getting any indications in the margins or my 7 mt lines and it had slowed down for Neil also. I was still getting the odd knock on the 13 mt line and eventually put another two in the net in one after the other but all just around the pound mark, both on half a worm. Within 15 minutes of the end I had 12 fish in the net, all by searching around, going to 14.5 mts for some or lifting and dropping the bait but it was hard work and all on bits of worms and then the heavens opened and it let it down for a good ten minutes.
I hooked my last fish on the all out but never got any big fish and knew Neil had beat me but wasn't sure how the rest had gone. Neil weighed in 9.6 kgs and was top weight on the day and I had 13 fish for 7.25 kgs for second in the section and 5th or 6th on the day...there was 3 other 7 kg weights, an 8 kg and some 5 and 4 kgs so even thou it was hard it is still a very even and fair venue and the weights were mixed all over the place. Our team finished 2nd on the day with Dave once again winning his section but Yorkie had a stinker and came last in his....Neil's team had two 1st and a second for the second match in a row so am sure are unbeatable now... we will have to try and keep ourselves up in second for the last round next month....
No matches here this weekend and don't think I will talk any out for a knock up with this rain promised all weekend but will be out for a pleasure session or two and we have a 2 day club match the following weekend so will get an up date on after that
Are these pictures from the west coast of sunny old Eire or are the from a cold and wet Australia
...Answers on a postcard please to...........!!!
7.25 kgs and am starting to dry out a little too..
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