Monday, September 18, 2006
Ed Pearces St Lukes Hospice Chatity Match 17th September - Stambridge Fisheries Match Lake
Weather:
Temp 19 > 23°C
SW (7 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 57,
Pressure (mB): 1011, Falling
A Pleasant day for it. The draw led to a couple of '20' scores - 10 Angler / 10 Peg. The leaders pulled what the consensus would be the best pegs. That is Olly on End peg 9 and Paul Pratley on the Hot Lily peg 11. I was on Peg 12 opposite Boozy & Barrett on 3 & 4 respectively. Both Boozy, Ed Pearce and I shared a lily pad just reachable for me at 11m with my new Ron Thompson Pole. Whilst setting up myself and Boozy exchanged pleasantries and decided that we would chat today as the omens were not good and discuss what I would write on the Blog about today.
Set up on the pole as I had a Jacuzzi beside the lily pad on my side with two kits light / heavy. At the whistle lightly baited up on the pole cup and went in on the bottom (18 inches) with Skintz on the light kit lots of liners but no positive takes. moved away on both sides - still nothing - Boozy was getting Skimmers on the other side on Corn - Tries that - nope - so went to paste - Nope then onto single red maggot - a ha few skimmers, then got busted up by a small carp in the lily pad. Went onto the heavy rig - not a bite - went back to the light rig - a couple of Skimmers - small Rudd. Decided a lot of work for small stuff. At 1130am Cam into just in front of me using the top two - - That is where I stayed for the rest of the day. A fish a chuck (2oz Average skimmers, Hybrids) on single/double red maggot. Tried a covering of pellet / ground bait to attract the Carp but none to came to 'play'. To his credit Boozy stuck with his attack on the lilies and was reward in mid afternoon when the carp came calling. A battle of wills ensued with each take between lily Carp and Boozy of which Boozy won the Majority. Either side of Booz Ed and Steve Barrett were quietly pulling in Fish - Ed was getting better Quality Skimmers than mine and Steve was getting the Odd Carp. Paul Pratley on the other hand whilst not getting a fish a chuck was regularly pulling Quality carp from that hot peg by the lilies. I think he lost as many as he caught.
The catch of the day goes to Big John Pearce. a battle with a 13lb 8oz Mirror that took him all around his end of the lake for what must have been 1hr 30 mins - This is the longest fight of the year taking over from Boozy's 1hr 10 mins in July. However it seemed to gain weight as Big John returned to his peg after weighing it in response to questions on how much did it go - By the time he got back to his peg it was 15lb 8ozs !!!!
Don't know what that did for Olly's swim as BJ was diagonal opposite him, but Peg 9 perhaps was not as hot as he hoped.
I was last to weigh in and was pleasantly surprised with my weight of 24lb 4oz - I estimate around 190 skimmers/hybrids. The most I have ever caught in any match.
Boozy finished 3rd behind Paul Pratley and Big John with Ed and Steve Barrett finishing 4th & 5th respectively
I will update with weights and league positions later in the week (don't have them to hand)
Temp 19 > 23°C
SW (7 mph)
Relative Humidity (%): 57,
Pressure (mB): 1011, Falling
A Pleasant day for it. The draw led to a couple of '20' scores - 10 Angler / 10 Peg. The leaders pulled what the consensus would be the best pegs. That is Olly on End peg 9 and Paul Pratley on the Hot Lily peg 11. I was on Peg 12 opposite Boozy & Barrett on 3 & 4 respectively. Both Boozy, Ed Pearce and I shared a lily pad just reachable for me at 11m with my new Ron Thompson Pole. Whilst setting up myself and Boozy exchanged pleasantries and decided that we would chat today as the omens were not good and discuss what I would write on the Blog about today.
Set up on the pole as I had a Jacuzzi beside the lily pad on my side with two kits light / heavy. At the whistle lightly baited up on the pole cup and went in on the bottom (18 inches) with Skintz on the light kit lots of liners but no positive takes. moved away on both sides - still nothing - Boozy was getting Skimmers on the other side on Corn - Tries that - nope - so went to paste - Nope then onto single red maggot - a ha few skimmers, then got busted up by a small carp in the lily pad. Went onto the heavy rig - not a bite - went back to the light rig - a couple of Skimmers - small Rudd. Decided a lot of work for small stuff. At 1130am Cam into just in front of me using the top two - - That is where I stayed for the rest of the day. A fish a chuck (2oz Average skimmers, Hybrids) on single/double red maggot. Tried a covering of pellet / ground bait to attract the Carp but none to came to 'play'. To his credit Boozy stuck with his attack on the lilies and was reward in mid afternoon when the carp came calling. A battle of wills ensued with each take between lily Carp and Boozy of which Boozy won the Majority. Either side of Booz Ed and Steve Barrett were quietly pulling in Fish - Ed was getting better Quality Skimmers than mine and Steve was getting the Odd Carp. Paul Pratley on the other hand whilst not getting a fish a chuck was regularly pulling Quality carp from that hot peg by the lilies. I think he lost as many as he caught.
The catch of the day goes to Big John Pearce. a battle with a 13lb 8oz Mirror that took him all around his end of the lake for what must have been 1hr 30 mins - This is the longest fight of the year taking over from Boozy's 1hr 10 mins in July. However it seemed to gain weight as Big John returned to his peg after weighing it in response to questions on how much did it go - By the time he got back to his peg it was 15lb 8ozs !!!!
Don't know what that did for Olly's swim as BJ was diagonal opposite him, but Peg 9 perhaps was not as hot as he hoped.
I was last to weigh in and was pleasantly surprised with my weight of 24lb 4oz - I estimate around 190 skimmers/hybrids. The most I have ever caught in any match.
Boozy finished 3rd behind Paul Pratley and Big John with Ed and Steve Barrett finishing 4th & 5th respectively
I will update with weights and league positions later in the week (don't have them to hand)
Labels: St Lukes Charity Match
