Monday, July 21, 2008
Big Johns Sunday League Match - Tylers Common - Horseshoe Lake - 20th July 2008
Some of my 'Readers' have requested that I make my Blog entries shorter - so here we go:
26 Anglers fished the Big John's Sunday Summer League Match at Tyler's Common Horseshoe Lake Middle Arm (Pegs 31-60) - Results below:
Nah ! Can't do that
Did I say Summer above ???? At times during the day I had a Shirt, Fleece and Wind cheating waterproofs battling against the squally North - North Westerly blustery wind (Business as Normal for Tyler's but in all fairness it was windy elsewhere - The fish were warmer than my hands at one point. That said I must be a wuss ! Terry Middleton & Kev Keeling were perfectly happy in shorts all day but they did have their backs to it and facing the Sun when it decided to show itself !!!
I set up on two Pole lines and in line Method Feeder with Short Middy Hair Rig size 14. At the whistle straight out on the method with 6mm Sonu pellet on the hair to the island on Peg 35.
I was just sorting a few things and took my eye of the rod and bang almost lost it the drink as a Carp Pulled it off the stand etc. This would happen for time during the day - no indications before that you normally get with a method as the carp pick away at the method feeder - You could sit there intently looking at the tip and nothing - look away to get a drink or set the bait for the next cast and bang you are catching the butt of the butt of the rod as it heads into the lake.
It took me me a while to sort out the rig after loosing more than I was landing but had to go up to Size twelve hook with two 6mm Sonu pellets - would not get a bite with a single 8mm ! The landing rate increased by 95%- The other thing I did which I never had much success with before was burying the hook bait in the mould - 1/2 filled - indent in the ground bait - place the hook bait in the indent and then cover and press really hard - The bite rate increased and was getting a fish a chuck but they were all of all around 1lb, mark - I was going to need two hours worth of these to catch up with Dean Peters behind on the other bank - he fought gallantly with a Monster Mirror and just got it in his landing net, looked like 18lbs or so to me.
Tried the pole lines only a few skimmers on maggot and a small carp close in - Nothing in my margins at all.
Mason Mills to my right on Peg 34 could not get anything on his feeder line so he came in early under the tree and had some success. He commented that his money was on me being in the frame come the end based on my catch rate and the action elsewhere. - and Deano shouted across that my Blog would be never ending if I did win. I pointed out that I don't win matches but if not I the frame it should help our team try at climb off the bottom of the table !
Midway through the afternoon we had a Visit - An EA Bailiff checking Rod Licences - what a welcome site !!! well for most of us I don't think Richard would agree. When the Bailiff requested his Rod Licence he left his rod unattended for a few seconds and you know what happens next don't you - remember what I said I had nearly done earlier - Yep - In his rod went - Frantic feeling around by Mick Wagg with his feeder rod did not locate it and its was gone. I don't know Richards' Surname but Mason decided to give him the name 'Titanic'
Note - 1st time ever I have been checked by an EA Bailiff.
Come the weigh-in news was filtering down that some big weights had been caught at the top end on the leeward side with Ed Pearce 120lb + I estimate that I might have around 50lb which turned out to be nearer 45lb - I really am useless at guessing match weights over 6 hours, but I was not far off on Dean's Monster - 17lb 4ozs - The biggest Carp I've seen caught on this lake.
Kev Keeling and John Buck up on the leeward end had done well also with bags of over 70lb - - reported that these were fish of a bigger stamp than mine and caught on Maggots in the margins.
Steve Barrett was miffed at this as he sat between Ed & Kev and hadn't brought any maggots. Strange how the two sides of this 'arm' differed on the same day.
Boozy commented that I would probably come up with a theory on the blog why this was. Well I thought hard and long and can only come with a strange one - The wind that was blowing SW all week turned on Saturday night and blew all the big fish round from the North East to the South West because like me they are old but they had more sense than me and sheltered from that wind ! So in answer to that - I have no idea - Goes against all what normally happens on this lake in relation to the weather conditions.
As Richard made his way back up the Hill to the Car Park Big John shouted across to him " Can you see a Rod from up there" the retort was " I heard that" Well at least he had less weight to pull back up than he would normally have!
Got the results from ED on Monday - I finished 6th - Better than I thought but we are still bottom of the pile in the Team Standings - but the gap is getting smaller.
Result / Standings:
26 Anglers fished the Big John's Sunday Summer League Match at Tyler's Common Horseshoe Lake Middle Arm (Pegs 31-60) - Results below:
Nah ! Can't do that
Did I say Summer above ???? At times during the day I had a Shirt, Fleece and Wind cheating waterproofs battling against the squally North - North Westerly blustery wind (Business as Normal for Tyler's but in all fairness it was windy elsewhere - The fish were warmer than my hands at one point. That said I must be a wuss ! Terry Middleton & Kev Keeling were perfectly happy in shorts all day but they did have their backs to it and facing the Sun when it decided to show itself !!!
I set up on two Pole lines and in line Method Feeder with Short Middy Hair Rig size 14. At the whistle straight out on the method with 6mm Sonu pellet on the hair to the island on Peg 35.
I was just sorting a few things and took my eye of the rod and bang almost lost it the drink as a Carp Pulled it off the stand etc. This would happen for time during the day - no indications before that you normally get with a method as the carp pick away at the method feeder - You could sit there intently looking at the tip and nothing - look away to get a drink or set the bait for the next cast and bang you are catching the butt of the butt of the rod as it heads into the lake.
It took me me a while to sort out the rig after loosing more than I was landing but had to go up to Size twelve hook with two 6mm Sonu pellets - would not get a bite with a single 8mm ! The landing rate increased by 95%- The other thing I did which I never had much success with before was burying the hook bait in the mould - 1/2 filled - indent in the ground bait - place the hook bait in the indent and then cover and press really hard - The bite rate increased and was getting a fish a chuck but they were all of all around 1lb, mark - I was going to need two hours worth of these to catch up with Dean Peters behind on the other bank - he fought gallantly with a Monster Mirror and just got it in his landing net, looked like 18lbs or so to me.
Tried the pole lines only a few skimmers on maggot and a small carp close in - Nothing in my margins at all.
Mason Mills to my right on Peg 34 could not get anything on his feeder line so he came in early under the tree and had some success. He commented that his money was on me being in the frame come the end based on my catch rate and the action elsewhere. - and Deano shouted across that my Blog would be never ending if I did win. I pointed out that I don't win matches but if not I the frame it should help our team try at climb off the bottom of the table !
Midway through the afternoon we had a Visit - An EA Bailiff checking Rod Licences - what a welcome site !!! well for most of us I don't think Richard would agree. When the Bailiff requested his Rod Licence he left his rod unattended for a few seconds and you know what happens next don't you - remember what I said I had nearly done earlier - Yep - In his rod went - Frantic feeling around by Mick Wagg with his feeder rod did not locate it and its was gone. I don't know Richards' Surname but Mason decided to give him the name 'Titanic'
Note - 1st time ever I have been checked by an EA Bailiff.
Come the weigh-in news was filtering down that some big weights had been caught at the top end on the leeward side with Ed Pearce 120lb + I estimate that I might have around 50lb which turned out to be nearer 45lb - I really am useless at guessing match weights over 6 hours, but I was not far off on Dean's Monster - 17lb 4ozs - The biggest Carp I've seen caught on this lake.
Kev Keeling and John Buck up on the leeward end had done well also with bags of over 70lb - - reported that these were fish of a bigger stamp than mine and caught on Maggots in the margins.
Steve Barrett was miffed at this as he sat between Ed & Kev and hadn't brought any maggots. Strange how the two sides of this 'arm' differed on the same day.
Boozy commented that I would probably come up with a theory on the blog why this was. Well I thought hard and long and can only come with a strange one - The wind that was blowing SW all week turned on Saturday night and blew all the big fish round from the North East to the South West because like me they are old but they had more sense than me and sheltered from that wind ! So in answer to that - I have no idea - Goes against all what normally happens on this lake in relation to the weather conditions.
As Richard made his way back up the Hill to the Car Park Big John shouted across to him " Can you see a Rod from up there" the retort was " I heard that" Well at least he had less weight to pull back up than he would normally have!
Got the results from ED on Monday - I finished 6th - Better than I thought but we are still bottom of the pile in the Team Standings - but the gap is getting smaller.
Result / Standings:
By the way Heres's a link to where Olly, Mason,Dean & I will be spending the 1st week of September - http://www.60pluscarp.com/
Be warned Extensive Blog entry will follow. & don't forget BJ's Website
http://www.bigjohnsangling.co.uk/index.html
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