A very rare day off for me when I could go fishing so booked on to our club's Tuesday match at Frogmore.
Into the draw bag and out comes peg 4, a short walk at least!
Peg 4 has a one of the floating islands and the end of a small proper island to fish to so a few options.
I plumbed up to the floating island and towards the island, at 6m left and right and a margin swim.
At the all in I fed 2 small balls of groundbait and micros at 6m to the right and a nugget of chopped worm in a little groundbait to the left.
Starting to the floating island at 14.5m on the deck with corn on the hook, I tapped in a few 4mm pellets and caught a couple of small carp in the first 25 minutes by which time it was clear there were a lot of small fish very shallow as they seemed to be going for my float after feeding so this prompted me to try in the same spot with a shallow rig.
Pinging 4mm pellets, a procession of small F1s came to the net on the shallow rig for the next 3 hours with a decent carp now and then too. There were a few slow periods but usually this would be followed by catching a carp then after feeding a few times the F1s would be back.
Half way through the match I tried the 6m lines with 2 dead red maggots on the hook to the right and worm section to the left but did not have a bite on either.
With around an hour to go things slowed right down so I tried the margin swim but no signs there so tied the 6m lines again, still nothing so just went back to the shallow rig and caught what I could until the end of the match.
I thought I might have around 20lb of F1s and maybe 25lb or so of carp so was pleasantly surprised to weigh in 25-13 of F1s and 37-11 of carp so 63lb 8oz in total which was enough to win the match.
The club report and full results can be seen HERE.
Into the draw bag and out comes peg 4, a short walk at least!
Peg 4 has a one of the floating islands and the end of a small proper island to fish to so a few options.
I plumbed up to the floating island and towards the island, at 6m left and right and a margin swim.
At the all in I fed 2 small balls of groundbait and micros at 6m to the right and a nugget of chopped worm in a little groundbait to the left.
Starting to the floating island at 14.5m on the deck with corn on the hook, I tapped in a few 4mm pellets and caught a couple of small carp in the first 25 minutes by which time it was clear there were a lot of small fish very shallow as they seemed to be going for my float after feeding so this prompted me to try in the same spot with a shallow rig.
Pinging 4mm pellets, a procession of small F1s came to the net on the shallow rig for the next 3 hours with a decent carp now and then too. There were a few slow periods but usually this would be followed by catching a carp then after feeding a few times the F1s would be back.
Half way through the match I tried the 6m lines with 2 dead red maggots on the hook to the right and worm section to the left but did not have a bite on either.
With around an hour to go things slowed right down so I tried the margin swim but no signs there so tied the 6m lines again, still nothing so just went back to the shallow rig and caught what I could until the end of the match.
I thought I might have around 20lb of F1s and maybe 25lb or so of carp so was pleasantly surprised to weigh in 25-13 of F1s and 37-11 of carp so 63lb 8oz in total which was enough to win the match.
The club report and full results can be seen HERE.
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