Heronbrook Spring League Round 2. Sun 21st Mar 2016.

Hi all.

The second round of the spring league arrived the day after the Dogs Bollocks match. Several of Team POHAS and some from Poplars AC celebrated our win a little bit too much in the Hoop and Mallet Pub the night before so I was a little late getting up to be picked up. Phone call to transport co-ordinator Jon Green revealed him in a worse state than me and just getting out of bed. We hastily got our gear together and made our way down the M6. We arrived a little after 8am so not too late to be fair.

My team draw gave us Jon Green on peg 2 Canal, Bridge 33 for Neil Pritchard, I got peg 24 on Meadow and Alan had peg 3 on Match Lake. My peg had produced over 100lb the week previous and all the other pegs were a bit hit or miss.

When I got to my peg the wind was blowing into the corner of pegs 26 and 27 were I had been on the previous match, so I was hoping that the wind had not moved all the fish into that area.
The angler who fished 24 the week before had caught most of his fish against the far bank either side of the shallow gap directly in front. For the pole I set up a 4x12 rig for pellet/corn for the far bank, a 4x14 pellet/corn rig for the deep water just before it shelves up at 11.5 metres, a 4x14 maggot rig for 6 sections in the middle and a bread dobbing rig for anywhere along the far bank. Due to the gap between pegs I also set up a short bomb rod again for fishing bread. Hopefully I would not need it.

I started the match on bread against the far bank 6 inches off bottom to the right of the gap. I did not get any carp or F1's only a few small roach. So I began fishing on pellet on the far bank to the left. I caught a couple of F1;s here but it was slow going compared to the previous week. That is how the rest of the match went. I caught F1's and carp including 2 good doubles fishing either on the far bank or at 11.5 metres. Following the recent pattern the maggot line was again rubbish. I ended the match with only 12 fish and lost 6. I weighed 53lb 5oz, so the fish were a good size and I could have possibly weighed over 70lb if I had not lost so many. That's how it goes, they don't all stick. That weight gave me 6 section points, so was a little disappointing. My 10 peg section was won with 87lb from peg 21. In general the fishing was not as good as the previous match and the weights were down a bit. Still not bad fishing for the end of March.

Team wise Jon got 6 points, Neil had 9 and Alan got 6. So there is a little consistency there and Alan was unlucky in his section loosing several big fish that would have pushed him right up there. Our points total of 27 is a slight improvement but we still sit near the bottom of the league.

The next round takes place after Easter, so a little break from team fishing for now.

Tight lines.