Blakey's Fishing Blog

A pleasant evening yet again. 10 Members fished.

We drew in bundles - Kev Keeling Olly Wagg, Mick Wagg, and me on Pegs 16-19 respectively and Mason Mills, Paul Pratley, Dean, Mick Byrne on 7, 8 , 9 & 10, wih Ron Price & Terry Middleton on 12 & 13.

Having watched Olly pick out a number of good bream to the left of the Island from Peg 19 on the previous Monday evening using cage feeder and Brasam additive to the feeder mix with Sweetcorn on the hook.

I tried the same tactic for the 1st half an hour - Not a sniff so came into my pole line at 6m that I had been feeding with pellet, maggot & corn at the same time - Used single Red Maggot on Size 18. Straight into Roach and small Perch - Mick Wagg has been getting nice Roach & perch on same method slightly to his right next to the weed bed, Kev keeling lost a big carp.

I kept going at 6m until they dried up and came in close - Big Mistake it took me another 1/2 hour to work out that I should have gone out another section and got into them again - To o little too late.

Dean had his elastic pulled out and after a nervous 10 minutes or so landed a nice Common that went 13lb. - Match Winning Fish.

With Dean winning I was not sure who finished 2nd - Mick finished 3rd with a good sliver bag of 12lb. Kev Keeling was fourth - had a small carp late on whilst casually drinking a beer.

I think I finished 7th with 8Lb - and Olly - will down with 1lb 10oz. He was fishing the feeder under the island tree for most of the match and stuck with it - Still he got the same amount of points as me - ONE