Hello everyone.
Happy New Year to you all.
No fishing for me during the Christmas break enjoyed the time off work, the weather has not been great but we are still waiting for our first spell of cold weather of the winter.
Yesterday the POHAS team of 4 fished the 4th round of the winter league at Partridge Lakes. Team for the day was myself, Jon Green, Alan Lamb and Rob Healey. I carried out the draw which gave us Jon on peg 6 Covey 1, Rob on peg 31 Covey 2, myself on peg 61 Covey 3 and Alan got peg 89 on Covey 4.
Again on paper the draw looked ok, could have been better or worse. Oh, and of course it rained.
I have fished 61 before in an open and managed to win my section, so I thought I would catch a few and hopefully score some better points.
As previous I set up the usual rigs for these matches and also plumbed an area near a dead reed bed on my right hand margin in case some fish settled there later on. Following my open match on this peg it was noticeable that the fish were in area between myself and the end of the spit to my right so this time a set up my deep maggot rig to fish at 8 metres to the right.
I started on the dobbing rig with bread but no bites. Also the angler on peg 59 was catching F1's every put in since the start, so I ditched the bread and started on pellet at 3ft. After what seemed like an age I managed 2 F1's in successive goes and after that it was a real struggle. My only saving grace was that I managed a run of fish on the 3ft swim next to the dead reed bed where I had been feeding some maggots. I did not get a bite in the deep water. I toiled on and totaled 11 fish for 19lb 5oz. Peg 59 weighed in over 73lb to win the match, it was a good weight but painful to watch at times. So once again Partridge reminded me how hard it can be at times, the fish go to the areas they want to be in, not were you think they should be. Even Steve Conroy struggled on peg 75 which is usually a great peg, weighing 22lb.
Back to the cabin for the results and lightening struck twice with Rob getting our best score with 5 points. The rest of us all got 8 points each, giving us a total of 29 points on the day. Although a high score we are making some small progress, as this is our first sub 30 point score of the league. Hopefully we keep on improving. Well done to Rob for good points off what we thought would be a bad area.
We now have a total of 128 points and are still last in the league, but again only a point behind the next team. Hopefully we can overtake them soon.
Tight lines.
Tuesday, 5 January 2016
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