Another new venue for me for this week's silvers match, this is part of the River Colne on the Barnet Club Ticket.
I drew peg 31 which was in "the bowl" where the venue opens out from a narrow river to an area more like a lake with flow.
I was happy with my draw mainly because I really fancied fishing the waggler and the peg suited this so that was one line, I also fed groundbait and pinkies at 11m and a 5m line with chopped worm, a few casters and a few dead maggots.
After 2 hours nobody had had a bite in the bowl area, I had mostly fished the waggler but did have a look on the pole lines in the second hour. I then had another look in on the 5m line with single red maggot on the hook, the float disappeared and a Bream came to the net, I was just releived to avoid a blank at this stage!
No further bites on the pole (for the rest of the match) but I did start to get bites on the waggler, 5 of them to be precise and each of those bites produces a chunky Bream so I had a nice match in the end.
The venue had fished very hard with the Roach not feeding so my 19lb 1oz was the winning weight with 3lb 7oz coming second.
Here is the results sheet..
I drew peg 31 which was in "the bowl" where the venue opens out from a narrow river to an area more like a lake with flow.
I was happy with my draw mainly because I really fancied fishing the waggler and the peg suited this so that was one line, I also fed groundbait and pinkies at 11m and a 5m line with chopped worm, a few casters and a few dead maggots.
After 2 hours nobody had had a bite in the bowl area, I had mostly fished the waggler but did have a look on the pole lines in the second hour. I then had another look in on the 5m line with single red maggot on the hook, the float disappeared and a Bream came to the net, I was just releived to avoid a blank at this stage!
No further bites on the pole (for the rest of the match) but I did start to get bites on the waggler, 5 of them to be precise and each of those bites produces a chunky Bream so I had a nice match in the end.
The venue had fished very hard with the Roach not feeding so my 19lb 1oz was the winning weight with 3lb 7oz coming second.
Here is the results sheet..
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