Hi all.
Fished the open at Partridge today. Drew peg 25 on Covey 2. Team mate Alan Lamb had it last week in the winter league and did not really catch until the end finishing with 41lb. Weather was warmer than of late but the wind was quite strong at times and blowing straight across the peg from right to left which would make long pole fishing a bit difficult.
The peg is at the far end of Covey 2 from the roadside at the corner of the island and a long corner margin to fish up to the unused peg 26. Club member Mark Bibby was pegged on 23 next to the bridge, so a quid side bet was agreed before the start. Set up same rigs as last week, 3ft rig at 10 metres, track rig, a 4 ft rig and a bread set up. I started on the 4ft rig at 13 metres to the left of the corner of the island with pellet. No bites here, so tried the same rig at 4 sections to the left close to the near bank, missed a tiny bite, but nothing else happened. By this time Mark had already caught a few. So I went out to 10 metres with single maggot feeding 3-4 every couple of minutes. Managed 5 F1's from here and lost a good fish, before it slowed down. The wind would also blow the rig about a bit so presentation was not great.
After about 1.5 hours I picked up the bread rig and started at 6 sections just off a small clump of reeds, caught one F1 here, but after that there were no more bites. Added another section, and apart from a couple of knocks did not get any proper bites. Put another section on and again no bites. Moved to 13 metres and swung the rig towards the empty platform on peg 26 and after a couple of minutes I caught a nice Carp around 6lb. Similar to last week I fished this area for most of the remainder of the match catching F1 's and 3 more carp. It was easier to fish this area as the wind was blowing into that corner and I had about 2-3ft of line above the float, so the rig was not moving around as much when it was gusty. I tried the track line in the last half hour and caught 2 more F1's but it was not quick fishing so I went back to the bread and caught another carp about 4-5lb in the last 5 minutes.
Ended up with 21 fish 7 of maggot rest on bread for 43lb 2oz. The warm wind had definitely pushed the fish into the corner, so it was a case of dropping the rig in the right place. Once I found the fish bites would happen within a couple of minutes. Mark had been catching steadily for the whole match rotating lines by the bridge on along the far bank. He ended up with 46 fish for just over 50lb. I had seen him catch a few smaller fish so was hoping that I might have caught him up with my bigger stamp. In the end it was not quite enough, so my pound went his way and hopefully I will get it back sooner rather than later. Mark won the 5 peg section and was unlucky to not get on the top 6 list, missing out by 2lb.
I have really enjoyed the last couple of matches fishing bread. Catching carp along with F1's for a change has been a lot better than previous visits and obviously catching a few fish and getting a decent weight helps as well.
Next week is the last round of the Partridge winter league so hopefully I can carry on catching a few fish and the team gets another good result.
Tight lines.
Sunday, 21 February 2016
Saturday, 13 February 2016
Partridge Lakes Winter League Round 7. 13 February 2016.
Hello all.
Following my previous results in the league I decided to drop myself from the team for 2 rounds in order to give another angler a go. I fished a couple of opens in between but again struggled on pegs 28 and 61 respectively, so it was fair to give someone else a chance. In round 5 on a cold day we managed to lift ourselves off bottom of the league, so everyone was very pleased. However in the 6th round we ended up back on bottom, but Jon Green finished 2nd in the match with 64lb off peg 75.
Must admit I felt a bit more enthusiastic after a little break so was looking forward to the next match.
Our team for the day was myself, Jon Green, Rob Healey and Alan Lamb. Once again I had to take responsibility for the draw which gave me peg 18 on Covey 1, Alan 25 on Covey 2, Jon peg 59 Covey 3 and Rob had to tackle peg 87 on Covey 4. Fellow team mate Phil Clare had fished the Thursday match preceding this one, ironically getting peg 18 and had told us that the pegs on the Coveys at the ends of the nearest Spey canal had produced the best. So we potentially had 2 good pegs with 18 and 25 and the other 2, although have been good in the past we were not quite sure how well they might fish on the day.
On the way to my peg I walked up with Alan and he gave me the low down, as he had finished second off it in an open catching around 50lb by dobbing bread in different parts of the peg. He also explained the depths and in which areas he caught his fish, this was really important on how my day panned out.
The peg has reeds along the left hand bank towards unused peg 19 and also reeds on the far bank running again to the left and around the bend towards the bridge. The far bank reeds extend out further so the water is a little deeper here than what you would normally expect. I set up a 4x12 rig for 3ft (Malman Benny), a 4x14 rig for the deep water down the track (Chianti), another 4x14 for 4ft (Malman Winter Wire) and a 4x12 for dobbing bread (Chianti). On plumbing up against the reeds directly opposite I found 3ft right next to them, moving to the left, the peg is deeper against the reeds, but the reeds do extend further away from the bank here. Moving to the nearside bank and plumbing along the reed line from 13 metres back towards my platform it was more or less 3ft all the way.
I started the match on 7mm bread 6 inches off bottom straight in front of me, no bites. Spent a few minutes next to the pallet on peg 17, again no bites. Fished across slightly to left in the deeper water, one missed bite. Tried bread on the 3ft line against the reeds and no bites. Swapped to a 2mm expander and tapped in a few micro's and after a while I got my first fish, an 8oz F1. No more bites on pellet, so tried maggot and 1 gudgeon later this was not looking good. By now roughly 1.5 hours had passed. The angler on peg 1 was catching steadily and all the anglers I could see had either caught carp or several F1's. I decided that I would carry on dobbing bread for the middle part of the match and hope that the track line would be good in the last hour. I could not see any other way of catching at that time. I started at 10 metres to my left with bread again 6 inches off bottom. After a while of lifting and dropping and laying in different spots, I did not get any bites. On went another section to 11 metres and I dropped the rig next to reeds, after a couple of minutes I got a bite from a nice common about 6lb. For the rest of the match I caught most of my fish in this area on bread. Once I tried a squeezed piece of corn, again no bites, put bread on in the same place and got a bite straight away. After one of the fish I caught I noticed that the hooklength knot had become damaged, so I stepped up to a 16 to hopefully stop me missing bites, however I only got bites when I switched back to an 18.
At the end I totaled 17 good sized fish including 4 carp from 5-7lb and several smaller ones with the rest being F1's and an Ide about a pound and half. I only caught 1 fish down the track. So pretty much all my catch was caught on bread in the same area at 11 metres down the left hand bank. Obviously if this had not worked I would have caught a hell of a lot less. Alan's advice before the start of the match was a godsend, hopefully I can return the favour one day.
I weighed 44lb 12oz, which was more than I thought, so maybe those carp were a bit bigger than I estimated. This gave me 2nd on the lake and won the 5 peg section money. Colin Scott on peg 1 won the lake and the match with 69lb. Well done Colin.
Back to the cabin for the team result. Alan had done really well to finish 3rd in the section with 41lb and was unlucky as the section was won with 46lb. Sadly Jon and Rob fared a little worse scoring 7 and 9 points respectively. As we feared the pegs closest to the road fished worse than those at the other end. This gave us 21 points which was joint 3rd on the day, but could not lift us above 9th place as they scored the same points as us. This is the best result the team has had so far so I am very pleased with the result and everyone who has contributed. I hope we continue on our upward trend.
So going into the last round we are still a point behind 9th place and 9 points off 8th, still all to play for.
Tight lines.
Team result at bottom of board.
Following my previous results in the league I decided to drop myself from the team for 2 rounds in order to give another angler a go. I fished a couple of opens in between but again struggled on pegs 28 and 61 respectively, so it was fair to give someone else a chance. In round 5 on a cold day we managed to lift ourselves off bottom of the league, so everyone was very pleased. However in the 6th round we ended up back on bottom, but Jon Green finished 2nd in the match with 64lb off peg 75.
Must admit I felt a bit more enthusiastic after a little break so was looking forward to the next match.
Our team for the day was myself, Jon Green, Rob Healey and Alan Lamb. Once again I had to take responsibility for the draw which gave me peg 18 on Covey 1, Alan 25 on Covey 2, Jon peg 59 Covey 3 and Rob had to tackle peg 87 on Covey 4. Fellow team mate Phil Clare had fished the Thursday match preceding this one, ironically getting peg 18 and had told us that the pegs on the Coveys at the ends of the nearest Spey canal had produced the best. So we potentially had 2 good pegs with 18 and 25 and the other 2, although have been good in the past we were not quite sure how well they might fish on the day.
On the way to my peg I walked up with Alan and he gave me the low down, as he had finished second off it in an open catching around 50lb by dobbing bread in different parts of the peg. He also explained the depths and in which areas he caught his fish, this was really important on how my day panned out.
The peg has reeds along the left hand bank towards unused peg 19 and also reeds on the far bank running again to the left and around the bend towards the bridge. The far bank reeds extend out further so the water is a little deeper here than what you would normally expect. I set up a 4x12 rig for 3ft (Malman Benny), a 4x14 rig for the deep water down the track (Chianti), another 4x14 for 4ft (Malman Winter Wire) and a 4x12 for dobbing bread (Chianti). On plumbing up against the reeds directly opposite I found 3ft right next to them, moving to the left, the peg is deeper against the reeds, but the reeds do extend further away from the bank here. Moving to the nearside bank and plumbing along the reed line from 13 metres back towards my platform it was more or less 3ft all the way.
I started the match on 7mm bread 6 inches off bottom straight in front of me, no bites. Spent a few minutes next to the pallet on peg 17, again no bites. Fished across slightly to left in the deeper water, one missed bite. Tried bread on the 3ft line against the reeds and no bites. Swapped to a 2mm expander and tapped in a few micro's and after a while I got my first fish, an 8oz F1. No more bites on pellet, so tried maggot and 1 gudgeon later this was not looking good. By now roughly 1.5 hours had passed. The angler on peg 1 was catching steadily and all the anglers I could see had either caught carp or several F1's. I decided that I would carry on dobbing bread for the middle part of the match and hope that the track line would be good in the last hour. I could not see any other way of catching at that time. I started at 10 metres to my left with bread again 6 inches off bottom. After a while of lifting and dropping and laying in different spots, I did not get any bites. On went another section to 11 metres and I dropped the rig next to reeds, after a couple of minutes I got a bite from a nice common about 6lb. For the rest of the match I caught most of my fish in this area on bread. Once I tried a squeezed piece of corn, again no bites, put bread on in the same place and got a bite straight away. After one of the fish I caught I noticed that the hooklength knot had become damaged, so I stepped up to a 16 to hopefully stop me missing bites, however I only got bites when I switched back to an 18.
At the end I totaled 17 good sized fish including 4 carp from 5-7lb and several smaller ones with the rest being F1's and an Ide about a pound and half. I only caught 1 fish down the track. So pretty much all my catch was caught on bread in the same area at 11 metres down the left hand bank. Obviously if this had not worked I would have caught a hell of a lot less. Alan's advice before the start of the match was a godsend, hopefully I can return the favour one day.
I weighed 44lb 12oz, which was more than I thought, so maybe those carp were a bit bigger than I estimated. This gave me 2nd on the lake and won the 5 peg section money. Colin Scott on peg 1 won the lake and the match with 69lb. Well done Colin.
Back to the cabin for the team result. Alan had done really well to finish 3rd in the section with 41lb and was unlucky as the section was won with 46lb. Sadly Jon and Rob fared a little worse scoring 7 and 9 points respectively. As we feared the pegs closest to the road fished worse than those at the other end. This gave us 21 points which was joint 3rd on the day, but could not lift us above 9th place as they scored the same points as us. This is the best result the team has had so far so I am very pleased with the result and everyone who has contributed. I hope we continue on our upward trend.
So going into the last round we are still a point behind 9th place and 9 points off 8th, still all to play for.
Tight lines.
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