Blakey's Fishing Blog

23 members fished here in this Club Match for the 1st time. It was true to the reported form over the past few weeks and as published in the July Edition of Southern Angler - POOR.

I drew peg 11 so I did not have far to walk - with Olly to my Left and Ron Price to my right.

The wind running at over 20mph came from our left on the exposed part - no shelter, heavy squall and it brightened up later. The wind mad pole fishing difficult and i could not reach the far bank which was 11 metres (the extent of mine) so I tried mid channel ( the lake bottom recreates the layout of a Canal, the centre cut with raised shelves near & far bank).

Tried maggot & corn, pellet over Micro pellet - had a few Roach and a Small Skimmer - nothing substantial, Ron had a few slabs close to the far bank on the feeder - I tried that also - no Joy.

Not until the afternoon when when i moved to the Margins to my right that I had a few carp to 3lb. on Pellet.

Could not see what else was going on due to the layout of the lake so had to wait for the weigh-in to see what had gone on. Sporadic at best but the far edges facing the South Westerly wind seem to provide the best weights.

Top weight was 45lb for Luke Hyde and Steve Barrett & Ron Price tied for 2nd with 25Lb each. i mustered 6lb 10z and Olly 6lb 12oz. An we were both out of the Knock Out Cup. Silver King Mick Wagg put together a 12 lb bag of small Roach he must have had over 100 fish in his net.