VAC Match 5 - Newland Hall - August 6th 2017

You may have noticed that match 4 is missing it's own blog post. This is because there was not much to report from the match at Frogmore match lake, I had 3 carp in the second hour and lost one big carp with 30 minutes to go, that was that and only 7lb 1oz to weigh in.

Match 5 now, this was at Newland Hall Fishery on Moat Lake.
The far bank was thought to be the favoured draw and I drew peg 4, this is on the near bank with the middle of the island to chuck towards.

I started on the feeder to the island and had a few small carp and a crucian but it was very snaggy and I had to pull for a break 3 times. This, I am sure cost me a couple of places in the match.

During the middle part of the match I fished the pole at 5m where I had fed some 4mm and 6mm pellets.
I started fishing paste here but there were too many very small fish so I switched to a banded pellet rig which caught me a few more small carp but it was tough going as after a fish or two it would be hard to get a bite for a while.

The last hour was spent fishing my left margin with a top kit and big lumps of paste over groundbait. I had 6 carp here and they were a bit bigger stamp as you would hope for.

I weighed a total of 42lb 11oz which was 6th in the match.

The club report and results can be seen HERE.