Hello once again.
Most of my fishing in February was geared towards the 1st round of the Supercup against POHAS at Meadow View on Linnet pool.
WAA had booked 2 practice sessions before the match and I also managed to fish myself one Sunday, prior to the practice matches. The day I fished it was a little windy and there was some rain about. This limited the pole fishing to 11.5 metres, where I fished with pellets and corn, hopefully for carp and I also set up a light maggot rig for fishing at the bottom of the near shelf at 5 sections of pole. I fed the carp line with a few pellets and pieces of corn and then a handful of maggots at 5 metres. I started fishing on the carp line and had no bites for 2o mins, so I moved to the maggot rig. Sods law dictated that after a couple of minutes I hooked a carp, which eventually broke me. After that I could catch roach more less each put in, but they were small fish. I did manage 3 carp on the longer line, which were caught towards the end of the session on either pellet or corn. My main findings were that a different bait would be required to try and sort out the bigger silver fish, casters would probably be the best bet.
The first practice match had me drawn on peg 16 I think, which is towards the corner on the car park bank. The weather was calmer than previous, but the wind was cold and blowing into the end of the lake that I was fishing. My set up was the same as before, however I could fish further out, so I settled on 13 metres, with an option to go to 14.5 if the fish backed off. The 5 metre line was fished the same except chopped worm and caster would be fed at the start and loose fed casters over the top. Sticking to trend of carp fisheries I started on the 13 metre line with corn on the hook. To my disappointment I bumped a carp after 5 mins. No more bites materialised so I started on the close in line with red maggot on the hook. I caught a couple of roach, which were noticeably bigger than those caught previously on maggot. Then I hit a bigger fish, which I thought might be another carp, after a short fight a chub about a 1lb or so surfaced, a nice bonus. I continued to catch on this line including a roach and perch close to a pound each. I think the cold wind put pay to any carp in my peg as I could not get any more bites fishing pellet or corn. In the end I weighed just short of 8lb, which was fourth and the only weight in the top six not to include carp. I seemed to have found a reliable method for catching the better stamp silver fish, pot luck for the carp though. As with many commercials if the carp are not in your peg then they are unlikely to move around in cold weather.
Most of my fishing in February was geared towards the 1st round of the Supercup against POHAS at Meadow View on Linnet pool.
WAA had booked 2 practice sessions before the match and I also managed to fish myself one Sunday, prior to the practice matches. The day I fished it was a little windy and there was some rain about. This limited the pole fishing to 11.5 metres, where I fished with pellets and corn, hopefully for carp and I also set up a light maggot rig for fishing at the bottom of the near shelf at 5 sections of pole. I fed the carp line with a few pellets and pieces of corn and then a handful of maggots at 5 metres. I started fishing on the carp line and had no bites for 2o mins, so I moved to the maggot rig. Sods law dictated that after a couple of minutes I hooked a carp, which eventually broke me. After that I could catch roach more less each put in, but they were small fish. I did manage 3 carp on the longer line, which were caught towards the end of the session on either pellet or corn. My main findings were that a different bait would be required to try and sort out the bigger silver fish, casters would probably be the best bet.
The first practice match had me drawn on peg 16 I think, which is towards the corner on the car park bank. The weather was calmer than previous, but the wind was cold and blowing into the end of the lake that I was fishing. My set up was the same as before, however I could fish further out, so I settled on 13 metres, with an option to go to 14.5 if the fish backed off. The 5 metre line was fished the same except chopped worm and caster would be fed at the start and loose fed casters over the top. Sticking to trend of carp fisheries I started on the 13 metre line with corn on the hook. To my disappointment I bumped a carp after 5 mins. No more bites materialised so I started on the close in line with red maggot on the hook. I caught a couple of roach, which were noticeably bigger than those caught previously on maggot. Then I hit a bigger fish, which I thought might be another carp, after a short fight a chub about a 1lb or so surfaced, a nice bonus. I continued to catch on this line including a roach and perch close to a pound each. I think the cold wind put pay to any carp in my peg as I could not get any more bites fishing pellet or corn. In the end I weighed just short of 8lb, which was fourth and the only weight in the top six not to include carp. I seemed to have found a reliable method for catching the better stamp silver fish, pot luck for the carp though. As with many commercials if the carp are not in your peg then they are unlikely to move around in cold weather.
The second practice match was fished in a similar manner to the first, the weather was a little warmer, however the water looked clearer than previous. In this match I did manage to catch 1 small carp and did loose a couple of foul hooked fish. Once again I did manage some roach on the short line. It was made a bit difficult due to the clear water. After catching a couple of fish, they would back off, this pattern would repeat itself through the match. It was just a case of swapping lines to catch what you could. I did not catch as many stamp fish this time and weighed 7lb, which was equal 3rd. It seems that to do well in the supercup match you have to a least catch one carp and back it up with the silver fish. Luck will play a big part as to whether you get carp or not.
The last match for February was fished on the Trent and Mersey Canal at Middlewich town centre. There had been good weights of roach and skimmers in previous matches. Once again the weather had an affect on the fishing. There was heavy rain the day before and the wind was gusting quite strong. My peg was opposite a line of moored boats, so it looked promising. I set up the usual breadpunch, caster and chopped worm rigs. All of my fished were caught on bread fishing a line close to the boats. All I could catch were small roach and gudgeon. There was nothing doing on caster or chopped worm.The better stamp fish that had been along these pegs had simply moved away. The section of canal we were fishing is between 2 large locks and the fish were caught at the other end in this match. Typical. There were some skimmers caught to my right in more open water pegs. From were I was it was a race to catch the small fish. I weighed just under 3lb which was only good enough to beat a couple in my section. At least there were plenty of bites, so it could have been worse. The match was won with over 11lb of roach, which is a great weight from a canal.
That covers my fishing in February. I was hoping to have a trip to the River Severn at Stourport before the river season finished, but after posting on the internet forums it seems the cormorants have had their dinner there too. So after seeing what has happened at Shrewsbury I decided that I was probably going to be a wasted journey. Such a pity, hopefully the river will recover soon.
Tight lines.
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